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Ceco Enviromental Corp (Nasdaq:CECE), Commercefirst Bancorp Inc (Nasdaq:CMFB), New York & Co Inc (Nasdaq:NWY) and Thermadyne Holdings Corp (Nasdaq:THMD) are among the biggest percentage Gainers in Tuesday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Also included among the results: Medtox Scientific Inc (Nasdaq:MTOX), Sommanteics Corp (Nasdaq:SMTS), Christopher & Banks Co(Nasdaq:CBK), Pyramid Oil Co (Nasdaq:PDO) and Bioclinica Inc (Nasdaq:BIOC).

Protherics (Nasdaq:PTIL), Heelys Inc. (Nasdaq:HLYS) and Cheviot Financial Corp. (Nasdaq:CHEV) are among the biggest percentage gainers in Thursday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.   

Also included among the results: Deltek Inc. (Nasdaq:PROJ), Beazer Homes USA Inc. (Nasdaq:BZH), Noble International (Nasdaq:NOBL), Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:OREX), Pzena Investment Management Inc. (Nasdaq:PZN) and Ceco Environmental Corp. (Nasdaq:CECE). 

Here are the biggest percentage gainers among small caps:    

Air pollution control and ventilation systems provider CECO Environmental Corp. (Nasdaq:CECE) said ahead of the opening it would buy Flextor Inc. and AVC Specialists Inc. Flextor is a Montreal-based supplier of engineered-to-order dampers and expansion joints. AVC Specialists is a Moorpark, Calif.-based manufacturer of electrostatic precipitator components. The company said it expects the acquisitions to be accretive to both revenue and earnings. The details of the transaction were not disclosed.

In today’s pre-market, shares are flat. The stock has ranged from $4.90 to $16.29 during the past year.

Middleburg Financial Corp (Nasdaq:MBRG), Community Valley Bancorp (CA) (Nasdaq:CVLL) and Circor International Inc (Nasdaq:CIR) are among the biggest percentage gainers in Wednesday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Also included among the results: FX Energy Inc (Nasdaq:FXEN), A Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd (Nasdaq:APWR), SUNOPTA INC (Nasdaq:STKL), Pyramid Oil Co (Nasdaq:PDO), Seacoast Banking Corp of Florida (Nasdaq:SBCF) and Ceco Environmental Corp (Nasdaq:CECE).

Here are the biggest percentage gainers among small caps:

In the stock market, as in nature, it takes time to recover from a fire. This year, Met-Pro Corporation (NYSE:MPR) has been recovering from a fire sale.

Harleysville, Penn.-based Met-Pro is a pollution control firm that helps corporations and organizations clean up their own messes. It won't solve global warming, but governments around the world are increasingly pressuring industries to make their processes more environmentally friendly, and that has been good for business, even in a lousy economy.

But the fan hit the spark in January of this year, when the company announced the discovery that in 2006, one of its sales people had been booking revenues early. The sales person was fired, and Met-Pro had to restate earnings for several quarters of fiscal 2007 (ended Jan. 31, 2007), shifting some earnings from one quarter to the next, although total earnings for the year remained the same.

The market burned the stock. It lost over 16% of its value in little more than a month — closing at $9.83 on Feb. 6, down from a close of $12.02 the previous Dec. 31. "The reaction was extreme," says Ryan Connors at Boenning & Scattergood Inc. in a phone interview.
 
The stock has since made an equally strong recovery, shooting back up to $13.44 at Tuesday’s closing. Its 52-week low was $9.30 and its high was $15.25. Its market cap is $202 million.

Connors thinks it has further to go. He maintains a "market outperform" rating and a $14 price target. Richard A Verdi of Sturdivant & Co. is even more optimistic. On May 23, he reiterated his "market outperform" rating and raised his target price to $16 from $14.

Met-Pro is divided into three segments that help keep the world clean. Its pollution control products include air scrubbers, exhaust systems, dust and particulate matter collectors, and water treatment chemicals to help reduce air pollution, avoid contaminating water and reduce odors. The fluid-handling segment makes specialized pumps and filters to move and treat corrosive fluids, including acids, solvents, caustics, bleaches and seawater, as well as extremely hot oil and water. The filtration and purification technologies segment produces water treatment chemicals and filters that help reduce chemicals and metals such as iron, lead and copper from . . .

Medical Action Industries Inc (Nasdaq:MDCI), Downey Financial Corp (Nasdaq:DSL) and Apex Silver Mines Ltd (Nasdaq:SIL) are among the new 52-week lows in Friday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $1 billion.

Lithia Motors Inc (Nasdaq:LAD), Ceco Environmental Corp (Nasdaq:CECE) and Sterling Financial Corp (Nasdaq:STSA) are also among the new 52-week lows.

Here are the new 52-week lows among small caps:

Kingsway Financial Services Inc (NYSE:KFS), Hardinge Brothers Inc (Nasdaq:HDNG) and Akeena Solar Inc (Nasdaq:AKNS) are among the biggest percentage losers in Thursday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $750 million.

MCG Capital Corp (Nasdaq:MCGC), Ceco Environmental Corp (Nasdaq:CECE) and California Coastal Communities Inc (Nasdaq:CALC) are also among the biggest percentage losers.

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CECO Environmental Corp. (Nasdaq:CECE) shares are rising after the maker of pollution control equipment reported before Tuesday’s opening bell that it booked 33 orders, each worth more than $200,000 apiece. CECO said the largest order is valued at more than $2.5 million and was placed by an undisclosed carmaker. Other orders came from the metals, power, electric equipment, ethanol, steel, aluminum, gypsum, refining, and copper smelting industries. In morning trading, CECE shares are up 8.69%, or $0.74, at $9.26.

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One company’s pain is another’s pleasure. And so far — until the dustup last week — it’s been one delightful year for investors in CECO Environmental Corp. (Nasdaq: CECE).

As U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards have expanded this year, so has the value of CECO, which provides equipment and expertise to help meet the new clean-air regulations. In the past 52 weeks, CECO shares have rallied from a low last August at $7.25 to a high of $18.14 this March. Share prices then leveled off before falling last week like a slip joint with a faulty band iron clamp. CECO settled Friday at $11.39, bouncing from an intraday low of $10.59.

General market credit and funding concerns — and CECO’s own vulnerability to debt —were behind last week’s rout. But before that, the share gains in CECO were powered by surging revenues and income as cleaner air demands by EPA and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration brought in a flood of business. 

Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the $131-million-dollar company’s main job is to provide air pollution control products and services. The group engineers and installs systems to take care of air contamination from any offending industry, including aerospace, metalworking, paper plants, food makers, chemical sites, and automotive manufacturers.

CECO’s strategy: instead of enforcing the CECO brand, the vertically integrated company acquires complementary businesses and leaves them to their own names, brands and specialties. It has gathered a growing family of diverse yet related companies, all committed to freshening the air.

There’s a lot to keep them busy. In CECO’s hometown just last week, the Ohio EPA was scheduled to hold a public meeting on how to get the Cincinnati area fully into compliance with federal ozone standards. The Ohio EPA’s draft plan includes a call for cleaner paints and architectural coatings, and lower emissions from coal-burning power plants. The state also has replaced a vehicle emissions testing program with a cleaner gasoline and controls on auto body paint shops and solvents used at companies with degreasing operations.

On lowered expenses, wood wholesaler Jewett-Cameron Trading Co Ltd. (Nasdaq: JCTCF) reported higher third-quarter income.

Sify Ltd. (Nasdaq: SIFY) reported it is partnering with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) to bring Internet and information technology services to India.

Investment firm William Blair & Company initiated research coverage of advertising and marketing company MDC Partners Inc. (Nasdaq: MDCA) with an “outperform” rating.

These are the biggest percentage gainers in Thursday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $500 million:

These are the biggest percentage gainers in Friday's trading among companies with market capitalizations under $500 million:

The following are the most actively traded companies in pre-market trading among those with market capitalizations under $500 million: