It's been a good week on Wall Street, with major market benchmarks recovering sharply from their losses year to date. The Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) was up another 1% as of 12:30 p.m. ET, bringing its weekly gains to more than 7%.
Big-name Nasdaq stocks get a ton of attention, but often, the smaller companies are the ones whose stocks have a lot more room to run higher. On Friday, double-digit percentage gains came for Embark Technology (NASDAQ: EMBK) and Duolingo (NASDAQ: DUOL) , and both recently public companies could see their share prices run a lot further in the weeks and months ahead if all goes well. Let's take a closer look.
Shares of Embark Technology were higher by more than 12% early Friday afternoon. The autonomous commercial trucking technology specialist just went public in November, and it reported its financial results for the end of 2021.
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