Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
SST, August 14: a run to $2.37
SST opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.37 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.80, on 101 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.77. It ran to $2.37 by 3:59 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.34, near 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 4.1% at $1.77, then ran from the open to the high of $2.37 in 389 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:24 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.80 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.77, up 4.1% from the previous close |
| 1:00 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.70 |
| 3:59 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.37 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.34, 1.3% 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
- $1.70
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.77
- Gap at the open
- +4.1%
- Pre-market high
- $1.80 at 9:24 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.37 at 3:59 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.73
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.34
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +37.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.35 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.02 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 58,815
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 32.0×
- Float
- 4.42 million shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.49 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 101 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,188 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.08 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days SST met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 8, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 SST 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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