Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
VNCE, August 27: an 8-K and a gap that held
VNCE opened up 19% after an 8-K and held near that level into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 8:41 a.m. Before the bell it reached $8.41, on 56K shares.
The open
It opened up 19%, at $7.54.
The close
It closed at $7.75, 8% under its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 18.9% to $7.54 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $7.75 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Vince Holding Corp. Acquires OVO to Create Multi-Brand Platform |
| 8:15 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): Authentic Partners with Drake to Scale OVO Globally |
| 8:41 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K |
| 9:25 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $6.34 |
| 9:26 a.m. | Pre-market high, $8.41 |
| 9:26 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.41 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.54, up 18.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.75, 7.8% 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
- $6.34
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.54
- Gap at the open
- +18.9%
- Pre-market high
- $8.41 at 9:26 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.41 at 9:26 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.16
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $7.75
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +22.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.84 at 6:26 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 391,746
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 11,030
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 10.3×
- Float
- 6.70 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 12.85 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 43 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 8:41 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 55,928 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (14%), 170,561 in the first 30 minutes (42%), and 176,287 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (44%).
- Other days VNCE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 14, 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 VNCE 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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