Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 9, 2026
JILL, September 9: an 8-K and a gap that held
JILL opened up 14% after an 8-K and held near that level into the close.
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What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 6:45 a.m. Before the bell it reached $28.79, on 228K shares.
The open
It opened up 14%, at $22.69.
The close
It closed at $21.79, 24% under its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 14.4% to $22.69 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $21.79 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:45 a.m. | News (Business Wire): J.Jill, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2026 Results |
| 6:45 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K |
| 6:49 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $19.84 |
| 6:49 a.m. | Pre-market high, $28.79 |
| 6:49 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $28.79 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $22.69, up 14.4% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $21.79, 24.3% 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
- $19.84
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $22.69
- Gap at the open
- +14.4%
- Pre-market high
- $28.79 at 6:49 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $28.79 at 6:49 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $20.00
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $21.79
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +9.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $22.30 at 4:16 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 518,234
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 34,246
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 12.1×
- Float
- 6.02 million shares, from filings as of September 9, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.86 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 3 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 6:45 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 228,116 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (41%), 88,959 in the first 30 minutes (16%), and 235,405 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (43%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day JILL met the small-cap rule.
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 JILL 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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