Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
STFS, August 10: a run to $5.72
STFS opened near its previous close, then ran to $5.20 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.72, on 1.8M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.60. It ran to $5.20 by 10:41 a.m.
The close
It closed at $4.04, 29% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 2.6% at $3.60, then ran from the open to the high of $5.20 in 71 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:21 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.51 |
| 5:22 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.72 |
| 5:22 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.72 |
| 5:55 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.12 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.60, up 2.6% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.04, 29.4% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $3.51
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.60
- Gap at the open
- +2.6%
- Pre-market high
- $5.72 at 5:22 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.72 at 5:22 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.35
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.04
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +15.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.70 at 5:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.49 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 33,170
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.8×
- Float
- 1.12 million shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.19 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.82 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (72%), 48,203 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 646,579 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (26%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.12 million shares: past it once at 5:55 a.m., twice at 10:41 a.m.
- Other days STFS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 17, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for STFS that day.
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
Trade this day
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