Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026
PETZ, August 31: a Form 4 and an after-hours run to $1.82
PETZ barely moved in the regular session after a Form 4, then ran to $1.82 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: a Form 4 at 4:05 p.m.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.20.
The close
It closed at $1.15, 7% under its high. After the close it ran to $1.82 by 6:37 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened up 0.0% at $1.20 and traded at $1.15 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 58.3% from $1.15 to $1.82 at 6:37 p.m. after the close, on 4.78 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.20, up 0.0% from the previous close |
| 9:30 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.23 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.15, 6.5% below the high |
| 4:05 p.m. | SEC filing SCHEDULE 13D/A: |
| 4:05 p.m. | SEC filing 4: Insider buy of 2,969,692 sh at $1.20 ($3.6M) by Liu Dandan (CEO and Chair) |
| 4:06 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.20 |
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
- $1.20
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.20
- Gap at the open
- +0.0%
- Pre-market high
- not available
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.23 at 9:30 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.15
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.15
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −4.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.82 at 6:37 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5,596
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.78 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 100.6×
- Float
- 8.22 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.32 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest SEC filing before it (4, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,178 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 4.79 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days PETZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 1, 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 PETZ 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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