Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 30, 2026
GOW, September 30: a run to $3.47
GOW opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.47 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.35, on 209K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.71. It ran to $3.47 by 3:14 p.m.
The close
It closed at $3.17, 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 4.7% at $1.71, then ran from the open to the high of $3.47 in 344 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:50 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.79 |
| 5:52 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.35 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.71, down 4.7% from the previous close |
| 3:14 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.47 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.17, 8.6% 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
- $1.79
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.71
- Gap at the open
- −4.7%
- Pre-market high
- $2.35 at 5:52 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.47 at 3:14 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.70
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.17
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +76.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.24 at 5:20 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.02 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 547,739
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 319.6×
- Float
- 10.52 million shares, from filings as of September 30, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.95 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 208,935 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (3%), 58,461 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 6.30 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
- Other days GOW met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 20, 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 GOW 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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