Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 21, 2026
HUBC, September 21: a run to $6.45
HUBC opened near its previous close, then ran to $6.45 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.79, on 28K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $4.64. It ran to $6.45 by 3:41 p.m.
The close
It closed at $6.01, 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 down 0.2% at $4.64, then ran from the open to the high of $6.45 in 371 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:23 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.65 |
| 6:23 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.79 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.64, down 0.2% from the previous close |
| 3:41 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.45 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.01, 6.8% 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
- $4.65
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.64
- Gap at the open
- −0.2%
- Pre-market high
- $5.79 at 6:23 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.45 at 3:41 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.56
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.01
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +29.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $11.01 at 5:52 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 103,135
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 566,540
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 1.79 million shares, from filings as of September 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.79 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 28,254 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (4%), 2,283 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 639,138 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (95%).
- Other days HUBC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 13, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 HUBC 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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