Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 18, 2026
HWH, September 18: a run to $2.46
HWH opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.46 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.19, on 5 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.14. It ran to $2.46 by 3:50 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.23, 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 down 0.5% at $2.14, then ran from the open to the high of $2.46 in 380 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:39 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.19 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.14, down 0.5% from the previous close |
| 3:50 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.46 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.23, 9.3% below the high |
| 5:36 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.15 |
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
- $2.15
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.14
- Gap at the open
- −0.5%
- Pre-market high
- $2.19 at 5:39 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.46 at 3:50 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.11
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.23
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +3.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.20 at 7:30 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 38,269
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 400,788
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 1.40 million shares, from filings as of September 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 29.73 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 5 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 11 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 439,041 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days HWH met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 10, 2026.
On the day's lists: the after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the after-hours movers: 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 HWH 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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