Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 1, 2026
BIRD, October 1: a run to $3.60
BIRD opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.60 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.65, on 7K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.57. It ran to $3.60 by 2:34 p.m.
The close
It closed at $3.48, 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 down 1.5% at $2.57, then ran from the open to the high of $3.60 in 304 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.65 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.57, down 1.5% from the previous close |
| 1:26 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.61 |
| 2:34 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.60 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.48, 3.2% 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
- $2.61
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.57
- Gap at the open
- −1.5%
- Pre-market high
- $2.65 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.60 at 2:34 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.51
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.48
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +33.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.49 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.39 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 36,445
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 11.5×
- Float
- 9.26 million shares, from filings as of October 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.81 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 7,066 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 30,032 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 1.39 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
- Other days BIRD met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 27, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 BIRD 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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