Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 2, 2026
VIVK, September 2: a gap that faded
VIVK opened up 33%, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.11, on 20M shares.
The open
It opened up 33%, at $1.04.
The close
It closed at $0.9011, 21% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 32.7% to $1.04 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $0.9011.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.7839 |
| 4:17 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.11 |
| 5:03 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 7.79 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.04, up 32.7% from the previous close |
| 9:30 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.14 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.9011, 21.0% 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
- $0.7839
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.04
- Gap at the open
- +32.7%
- Pre-market high
- $1.11 at 4:17 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.14 at 9:30 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.8651
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.9011
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +15.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $0.9879 at 5:10 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 28.62 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 972,055
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 27.1×
- Float
- 7.79 million shares, from filings as of September 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.18 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 19.58 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (66%), 3.44 million in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 6.57 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (22%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 7.79 million shares: past it once at 5:03 a.m., twice at 8:06 a.m., three times at 10:14 a.m.
- Other days VIVK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 9, 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 VIVK 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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