Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 8, 2026
SST, September 8: news and $5.44
SST opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $5.44 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 9:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $3.99, on 10K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $4.04. It ran to $5.44 by 2:04 p.m.
The close
It closed at $5.05, 7% 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 5.5% at $4.04, then ran from the open to the high of $5.44 in 274 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): System1's MapQuest Surpasses 2 Million New Users Over the Past Week |
| 9:23 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.99 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.04, up 5.5% from the previous close |
| 12:44 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.83 |
| 2:04 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.44 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.05, 7.2% 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
- $3.83
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.04
- Gap at the open
- +5.5%
- Pre-market high
- $3.99 at 9:23 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.44 at 2:04 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.75
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.05
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +31.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.30 at 7:49 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.80 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 92,992
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.9×
- Float
- 2.98 million shares, from filings as of September 8, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.49 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 3 hours 44 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 9:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 9,707 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 55,704 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 1.83 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
- Other days SST met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 31, 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 SST 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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