Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
IPST, August 14: a run to $2.42
IPST opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.42 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.08, on 91 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.06. It ran to $2.42 by 12:37 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.24, 7% 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 down 1.9% at $2.06, then ran from the open to the high of $2.42 in 187 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:34 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.08 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.06, down 1.9% from the previous close |
| 12:37 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.42 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.24, 7.4% below the high |
| 4:26 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.10 |
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
- $2.10
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.06
- Gap at the open
- −1.9%
- Pre-market high
- $2.08 at 8:34 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.42 at 12:37 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.94
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.24
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +6.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.93 at 4:28 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 19,193
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 479,165
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 47.1×
- Float
- 696,891 shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 721,578
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 91 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,090 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 497,177 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days IPST met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on October 27, 2026.
- The next session, August 17, 2026, it was up 235.0% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the after-hours movers: 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 IPST 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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