Sometimes the most interesting moves happen in stocks you've never heard of. Case in point: Liquidity Services Inc. (LQDT), a company that operates in the same general sandbox as eBay Inc. (EBAY) but probably hasn't crossed your radar.

Liquidity Services runs a network of online marketplaces that help businesses manage surplus assets—think of it as the place where excess inventory and returned goods go to find new homes. It's not quite the consumer-to-consumer model that made eBay famous, but there's definitely some family resemblance in the business model.

What's Driving the Momentum Spike?

Here's where things get interesting. The company's momentum score—which measures price movements and volatility across multiple timeframes and ranks stocks as percentiles—jumped from 24.14 to 76.57 in just over a week. That's not a typo.

When you see a momentum score surge like that, it usually means something real is happening. Either new money is flowing in, volumes are spiking, or there's a fundamental catalyst at work. In this case, it's likely all of the above.

Strong Earnings Sparked the Rally

The Maryland-based company reported fiscal first-quarter earnings last month, and the market liked what it saw. The stock jumped 13.35% shortly after the announcement, and that momentum has only built from there. Over the past month, shares are up 24.64%.

What makes this particularly noteworthy is that Liquidity Services isn't just scoring high on momentum—it's also showing strength in quality metrics, with favorable price trends across short, medium, and long-term periods. When you get momentum and quality lining up together, that tends to catch people's attention.

Of course, a hot momentum score doesn't tell you where the stock goes next. It's backward-looking by nature, capturing what's already happened rather than predicting the future. But it does signal that something has changed, and right now, whatever that something is seems to be working in Liquidity Services' favor.

For a company that flies under the radar in the crowded e-commerce space, that's not a bad place to be.