Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 13, 2026
LNSR, August 13: news and $8.65
LNSR opened up 20% after news, ran to $8.65, then gave back some of the run by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $8.43, on 445K shares.
The open
It opened up 20%, at $7.53. It ran to $8.65 by 3:55 p.m.
The close
It closed at $8.27, near its high.
What to take from it: The high came early. Most of the run was gone by the close, so the move was in the morning, not the hold.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 19.7% to $7.53 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $8.65 in 385 minutes, then gave back 34% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $8.27, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): LENSAR® Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results and Provides Business Update |
| 7:08 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $6.29 |
| 7:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, $8.43 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.53, up 19.7% from the previous close |
| 3:55 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.65 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.27, 4.4% 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
- $6.29
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.53
- Gap at the open
- +19.7%
- Pre-market high
- $8.43 at 7:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.65 at 3:55 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.44
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.27
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +31.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.52 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.23 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 19,925
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 47.1×
- Float
- 8.95 million shares, from filings as of August 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 12.28 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 8 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 444,716 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (36%), 214,756 in the first 30 minutes (17%), and 589,117 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (47%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day LNSR met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, 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 LNSR 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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