Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
USDE, August 27: a run to $8.50
USDE opened near its previous close, then ran to $8.50 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $6.78, on 403K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $6.45. It ran to $8.50 by 12:18 p.m.
The close
It closed at $8.07, 5% 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 up 7.9% at $6.45, then ran from the open to the high of $8.50 in 168 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:34 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.78 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $6.45, up 7.9% from the previous close |
| 10:20 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.98 |
| 12:18 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.50 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.07, 5.1% 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
- $5.98
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $6.45
- Gap at the open
- +7.9%
- Pre-market high
- $6.78 at 5:34 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.50 at 12:18 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.05
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.07
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +34.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.07 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 8.27 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 241,687
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.0×
- Float
- 20.52 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 27.19 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 403,114 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (5%), 181,742 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 7.92 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (93%).
- Other days USDE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on September 21, 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for USDE 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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