(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the best and worst performers on the Small-Cap Monday afternoon in Piazza Affari.

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FTSE SMALL CAP - WINNERS

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Autostrade Meridionale leads the bullish performers with a 14 percent rise, extending the 13 percent increase of last week's last session. Despite declining 2022 accounts, the market rewarded the proposed dividend payout of EUR3.50 and the board's evaluation of new corporate strategies. "The directors are evaluating the corporate strategies to be put in place for the future, which may also include participation in tenders for the construction or management of freeway arterial roads, or the acquisition of shareholdings in companies operating in such activities, consistent with the provisions of the company's bylaws," the company explained.

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Esprinet rises 6.6 percent after reporting that it ended 2022 with revenues from customer contracts at EUR4.68 billion, broadly in line with the previous year's result. The gross trading margin is EUR243.8 million, up 5 percent from 2021, when it was EUR232.9 million, "substantially due to the increase in the percentage margin - to 5.20 percent in 2022 versus 4.96 percent in the previous year - a consequence of the higher incidence of high margin product categories which, in line with the group's strategy, increase their weight on revenues to 42 percent from 38 percent in 2021," the smallcap said.

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Risanamento gains 5.5 percent, with the stock trying to climb back up after a month that closed 11 percent in the red, a half-year in which it gave up 7.9 percent, and a year in which the decline amounted to 5.5 percent.

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FTSE SMALL CAP - LOSERS

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Beewize gives up 2.1% and is at the bottom of the list where it belongs, with low trading volumes: in fact, 1,576 pieces changed hands with one contract.

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By Giuseppe Fabio Ciccomascolo, Alliance News senior reporter

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