Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 24, 2026
WLDS, August 24: a quiet day, then $3.89 after the bell
WLDS barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $3.89 after the close.
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What happened
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A dead regular session
Nothing traded before the bell to hint at a move. Only 1,031 shares changed hands pre-market, in a stock with a 1.24M-share float.
It opened at $2.58, a cent below the $2.59 close, and drifted lower on tiny volume. The low was $2.22 at 2:27 p.m.
Stop It's 3:58. WLDS is $2.28. It closed yesterday at $2.59 and opened today at $2.58. The low so far is $2.22 and the high is the $2.62 pre-market print. For the last hour it has stayed between $2.25 and $2.30, and only a few shares trade in most minutes. Would you buy here?
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It closed near $2.27. Only 48K shares traded all session, about 4% of the float.
Results after the bell
The move came after the close. At 4:05 p.m. the company posted its first-half 2026 results. Then it took off from a $2.24 low.
It hit $3.57 by 4:30. By 4:35, more shares had traded than the whole float. It faded to $2.58, then ran again to $3.89 at 5:05 p.m., the high of the day.
The give-back
By 5:28 it was back to $2.51. After hours, 5M shares traded, about four times the float.
What to take from it: A quiet close told nothing about the after-hours news run, and that run gave back most of its gain.
Replay WLDS's day
It starts at 3:55 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 3:58 p.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened down 0.4% at $2.58 and traded at $2.26 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 72.1% from $2.26 to $3.89 at 5:05 p.m. after the close, on 5.00 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:05 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.62 | |
| 8:05 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.62 | |
| 9:01 a.m. | SEC filing 3: New insider: Vardi Avichy Nisan (Director) | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.58, down 0.4% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.26, 13.7% below the high | |
| 4:05 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Wearable Devices Announces First Half 2026 Financial Results and Provides Corporate Update | |
| 4:27 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.59 | |
| 4:35 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.24 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
- $2.59
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.58
- Gap at the open
- −0.4%
- Pre-market high
- $2.62 at 8:05 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.62 at 8:05 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.22
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.26
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −12.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.89 at 5:05 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 48,924
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5.00 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.6×
- Float
- 1.24 million shares, from filings as of August 24, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.46 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 22 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,031 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2,846 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 5.05 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.24 million shares: past it once at 4:35 p.m., twice at 4:57 p.m., three times at 5:14 p.m.
- Other days WLDS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 23, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 WLDS 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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