Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 3, 2026
YQ, September 3: news and $2.95
YQ opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $2.79 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 6:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $2.95, on 1.2M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.31. It ran to $2.79 by 1:10 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.69, 9% 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 1.3% at $2.31, then ran from the open to the high of $2.79 in 220 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. Announces New Share Repurchase Program of Up to US$10 Million |
| 6:13 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.28 |
| 6:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.95 |
| 6:14 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.95 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.31, up 1.3% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.69, 8.8% 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
- $2.28
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.31
- Gap at the open
- +1.3%
- Pre-market high
- $2.95 at 6:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.95 at 6:14 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.01
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.69
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +18.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.29 at 6:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.47 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 145,602
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 6.07 million shares, from filings as of September 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.84 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 13 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 6:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.17 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (73%), 92,548 in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 348,231 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (22%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day YQ met the small-cap rule.
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 YQ 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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