Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 2, 2026
PTN, September 2: a run to $13.67
PTN opened near its previous close, then ran to $13.67 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $12.11, on 279 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $11.94. It ran to $13.67 by 3:48 p.m.
The close
It closed at $12.88, 6% 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 2.6% at $11.94, then ran from the open to the high of $13.67 in 378 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:12 a.m. | Pre-market high, $12.11 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $11.94, up 2.6% from the previous close |
| 3:48 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $13.67 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $12.88, 5.8% 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
- $11.64
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $11.94
- Gap at the open
- +2.6%
- Pre-market high
- $12.11 at 8:12 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $13.67 at 3:48 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $11.40
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $12.88
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +10.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $12.84 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 150,332
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 206
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.9×
- Float
- 1.75 million shares, from filings as of September 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.78 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 279 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 67,256 in the first 30 minutes (45%), and 83,003 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (55%).
- Other days PTN met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 14, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 PTN 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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