Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 1, 2026
INSG, October 1: an 8-K and $4.50
INSG opened near its previous close after an 8-K, then ran to $4.50 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 6:01 a.m. Before the bell it reached $4.35, on 50K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.99. It ran to $4.50 by 12:08 p.m.
The close
It closed at $4.37, 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 9.0% at $3.99, then ran from the open to the high of $4.50 in 158 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 3:15 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Inseego Completes Acquisition of Nokia's Fixed Wireless Access Business |
| 4:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.35 |
| 6:01 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: CURRENT REPORT |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.99, up 9.0% from the previous close |
| 11:57 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.66 |
| 12:08 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.50 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.37, 2.9% 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
- $3.66
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.99
- Gap at the open
- +9.0%
- Pre-market high
- $4.35 at 4:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.50 at 12:08 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.73
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.37
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +19.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.46 at 4:28 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 865,055
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 21,482
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.2×
- Float
- 12.08 million shares, from filings as of October 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 16.42 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 5 hours 55 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 6:01 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 50,460 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (6%), 72,707 in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 763,370 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (86%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day INSG 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 INSG 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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