Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 16, 2026
HCWC, September 16: a run to $14.55
HCWC opened near its previous close, then ran to $14.55 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $10.49, on 1K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $10.47. It ran to $14.55 by 1:39 p.m.
The close
It closed at $14.14, near 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 4.0% at $10.47, then ran from the open to the high of $14.55 in 249 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:06 a.m. | Pre-market high, $10.49 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $10.47, up 4.0% from the previous close |
| 10:43 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $10.07 |
| 1:39 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $14.55 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $14.14, 2.8% 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
- $10.07
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $10.47
- Gap at the open
- +4.0%
- Pre-market high
- $10.49 at 9:06 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $14.55 at 1:39 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.75
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $14.14
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +40.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $14.67 at 7:48 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 192,108
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4,885
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.1×
- Float
- 780,593 shares, from filings as of September 16, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 927,367
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,442 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 10,307 in the first 30 minutes (5%), and 185,244 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (94%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day HCWC met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers. 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 HCWC 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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