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Greetings and welcome to HotCopper Highlights for the end of Week 2 of 2026, I’m Jon Davidson. We’re back into the rhythm of a new year now and in this segment, for those playing at home, we go through a selection of the most viewed and discussed stocks on the forums respectively, and let’s jump into the first edition for this year starting with the most viewed.
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4D Medical by far stealing the spotlight this week as the biotech darling stages an +800% twelve month return with momentum alone recently pushing the stock to around $4.50 a share. That gives 4DX a market cap of $2.5B, the lung imaging innovator however isn’t yet making meaningful revenues.
SILEX Systems meanwhile this week giveth and tooketh away as the company jumped on uranium goodwill early week before tanking after the US government declined to offer the company a funding lifeline. The laser tech company is working to refine uranium, ideally for the US defence force, and for now it will keep sniffing around those traps.
Lumos Diagnostics finally, another biotech darling from last year, now superseded perhaps by 4DX in terms of popularity, continues to generate chatter as the company continues to remain a source of FOMO; to date, one year returns are up +750%.
And so what about the most discussed?
PLS Group, formerly Pilbara Minerals, remains very popular, especially after lithium carbonate benchmarks in China started looking healthy in the last few months. While we’re well off 2022 levels, the company’s shares are nearly back to $5/ea. Perhaps an overvaluation looking at carbonate prices, but given the stock paid dividends in not too recent history, you can see where the enthusiasm comes from.
American Tungsten and Antimony meanwhile catching eyes this week as the company continues to make moves targeting those two defence metals; for those playing at home, American Tungsten was last year called Trigg Minerals but the rebrand says it all.
Invictus Energy, finally, still generating chatter among its myriad supporters as the market waits to see what exactly this whole Qatari Royal Family investment means for the company and its proposed development of the Carbora Bassa gasfield; while shareholders celebrated the execution of a production sharing agreement, that’s just a piece of paper – to date, investors still waiting for more information about what the year might look like.
That’s HotCopper Highlights for this week, I’m Jon Davidson, it’s great to be back saying whatever I want really to get a reaction, you have a great weekend, and we’ll see you on Monday.
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