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Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026

WBUY, August 31: news and $1.23

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WBUY opened up 20% after news, ran to $1.18, then fell below its open by the close.

News via Stock News API

News$1.23$0.834 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
WBUY on August 31, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

Before the open

The news came first: news at 4:30 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.23, on 14M shares.

The open

It opened up 20%, at $0.9997. It ran to $1.18 by 9:55 a.m.

The close

It closed at $0.90, 27% under its high.

What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.

The details

How it traded, step by step

Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 20.4% to $0.9997 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.18 in 25 minutes, then gave back 155% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $0.90, below the open.

Time (ET)What happened
4:30 a.m.News (GlobeNewsWire): WEBUY GLOBAL LTD. Reports Record NATAS Fair Bookings of US$ 4.76 Million, 42% Higher than March 2026
4:37 a.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.83
5:21 a.m.Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.17 million shares
5:33 a.m.Pre-market high, $1.23
5:33 a.m.High of the day to the close, $1.23
9:30 a.m.The open: $0.9997, up 20.4% from the previous close
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.90, 26.8% 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
$0.83
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$0.9997
Gap at the open
+20.4%
Pre-market high
$1.23 at 5:33 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$1.23 at 5:33 a.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$0.8232
Close, 4 p.m.
$0.90
Change at 4 p.m.
+8.4%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$1.00 at 4:50 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
18.65 million
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
386,551
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
710.7×
Float
3.17 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
Shares outstanding
5.20 million
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 7 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:30 a.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 13.78 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (72%), 1.57 million in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 3.68 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (19%).
  • Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.17 million shares: past it once at 5:21 a.m., twice at 5:40 a.m., three times at 6:31 a.m.
  • Other days WBUY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 13, 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 WBUY 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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