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Friday's Small-Cap Winners & Losers

Friday's Small-Cap Winners & Losers

Cutter & Buck soars on news of a buyout.
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Cutter & Buck soars on news of a buyout.

Small-cap stocks moved in lockstep with the rest of the market Friday, starting things off with a slide followed by a slight midday recovery on a fairly even mix of positive and negative news from various sectors.

Trading volume exploded at Seattle's

Cutter & Buck

( CBUK), vaulting shares up 21.9% to $14.18, after the casual-apparel maker agreed to

sell itself

to Sweden-based

New Wave Group

for $156.5 million.

Likewise for wireless provider

Rural Cellular

(RCCC)

, based in Minnesota, soared some 22% to $17.25 on preliminary results showing improvement in operating income, revenue and customer numbers.

Medis Technologies

( MDTL), a medical-equipment maker, said it began shipping its first batch of 24/7 fuel-cell Power Pack products to

Microsoft

today. Shares recently jumped $2.77, or 15.1%, to $21.06.

Another medical-device maker,

ArthroCare

(ARTC)

, gained 4% to $39.30 on a Lazard upgrade to buy from hold, and

Nautilus

(NLS) - Get Free Report

erased some of Thursday's losses (induced by downward guidance) after Matrix Research raised the fitness-equipment maker to hold from strong sell. Shares were up 4% to $14.21.

On the other hand, several small-cap names were sliding on negative analyst research. American Technology Research slapped a sell rating on hard-disk maker

Komag

( KOMG), citing the fact that its biggest customer,

Seagate Technology

(STX) - Get Free Report

, has recently deflated its sales guidance and will probably outsource less of its disk production. Komag shares fell 50 cents, or 1.6%, to $30.70. Seagate was recently off a penny to $21.73.

Meanwhile, construction company

Perini

( PCR) was down 6.9% to $38.58 after Morgan Joseph said it has run up too much lately and cut the stock to hold from buy. California's

Capstone Turbine

(CPST) - Get Free Report

and medical-device maker

Urologix

(ULGX)

were also hit with downgrades by Ardour Capital and CE Unterberg Towbin, respectively. Capstone gave up 5.8% to $1.14; Urologix lost 11.6% to $2.52.

Business-software firm

SumTotal

( SUMT) plunged 7.7% to $7.99 after guiding slightly below Street estimates for the first quarter's top and bottom lines, expecting 6 cents to 7 cents a share on revenue of $29.2 million to $29.5 million.

U.S. Xpress

( XPRSA), a trucking company, expects to swing to a first-quarter loss of 15 cents to 17 cents a share, widely missing analysts' upside targets. Shares tumbled 7.3% to $15.81 in recent trading

The Russell 2000 and S&P SmallCap 600 indices were each lately up about a quarter of a percent.