Benzinga | Oct 12, 2020 07:53AM EDT

Benzinga Pro's Top 5 Stocks To Watch For Monday, Oct. 12, 2020: SPTN, TACO, HUYA, APDN, ALT

Today's 5 Stock Ideas:

* SpartanNash Company (SPTN) - A play on Amazon's (AMZN) expansion into grocery and food distribution. SpartanNash shares jumped 26% Friday on news of a partnership with Amazon which could see the e-commerce giant become SpartanNash's largest shareholder.

* Del Taco Restaurants (TACO) - An upcoming earnings play. Will report Q3 results before market open on Thursday. Analysts expect EPS of $0.09 on revenue of $117.62 million.

* Huya (HUYA) - An M&A play on China's growing video game market. Huya shares were up more than 7% Monday morning following news of a merger with DouYu International (DOYU). Each company will own 50% of the combined company. DouYu shares were up 14% in pre-market action.

* Applied DNA Sciences (APDN) - A COVID-19 testing play. Shares gained almost 5% in Monday's pre-market session after the company reported more than $1 million in COVID-19 testing annualized revenue.

* Altimmune (ALT) - A COVID-19 vaccine play. Shares rose nearly 5% Monday after the company published positive pre-clinical data on its new COVID-19 vaccine candidate.