Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 12, 2026
SCKT, August 12: a run to $2.18
SCKT opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.18 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.59, on 401K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.41. It ran to $2.18 by 11:25 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.60, 27% 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 1.4% at $1.41, then ran from the open to the high of $2.18 in 115 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.59 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.41, up 1.4% from the previous close |
| 10:41 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.39 |
| 11:25 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.18 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.60, 26.6% below the high |
| 6:22 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 5.69 million shares |
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
- $1.39
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.41
- Gap at the open
- +1.4%
- Pre-market high
- $1.59 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.18 at 11:25 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.30
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.60
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +15.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.75 at 4:47 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.53 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 224,750
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1.3×
- Float
- 5.69 million shares, from filings as of August 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.24 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 400,529 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (7%), 113,514 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 5.24 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (91%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 5.69 million shares: past it once at 6:22 p.m.
- Other days SCKT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 5, 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 SCKT 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.
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