Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 25, 2026
BRNX, August 25: one halt and $5.75
BRNX opened up 18%, ran to $5.75 through one halt, and held most of the move into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.04, on 225K shares.
The open
It opened up 18%, at $4.94. It ran to $5.75 by 10:17 a.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 10:18 a.m.
The close
It closed at $5.55, near its high.
What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and go. It gapped up 18.2% to $4.94 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $5.75 in 47 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 25% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:11 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.18 |
| 4:11 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.04 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.94, up 18.2% from the previous close |
| 10:17 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.75 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.55, 3.5% below the high |
| 5:39 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 720,888 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
- $4.18
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.94
- Gap at the open
- +18.2%
- Pre-market high
- $5.04 at 4:11 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.75 at 10:17 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.57
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.55
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +32.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.15 at 7:45 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 692,342
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 86,825
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.6×
- Float
- 720,888 shares, from filings as of August 25, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 720,888
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 225,282 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (29%), 49,537 in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 504,348 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (65%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 720,888 shares: past it once at 5:39 p.m.
- Other days BRNX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on August 27, 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:18 a.m. | 10:23 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 8.6% | $4.95, unchanged | up 3.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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