Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 8, 2026
WORX, October 8: one halt and an after-hours run to $7.19
WORX barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $7.19 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.90, on 3K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $5.49.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 12:14 p.m.
The close
It closed at $4.20, 29% under its high. After the close it ran to $7.19 by 4:53 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened down 4.5% at $5.49 and traded at $4.20 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 71.2% from $4.20 to $7.19 at 4:53 p.m. after the close, on 1.55 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:06 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.90 |
| 4:06 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.90 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.49, down 4.5% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.20, 28.8% below the high |
| 4:52 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.75 |
| 4:55 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 439,789 shares |
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
- $5.75
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.49
- Gap at the open
- −4.5%
- Pre-market high
- $5.90 at 4:06 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.90 at 4:06 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.85
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.20
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −27.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.19 at 4:53 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 39,786
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.55 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 439,789 shares, from filings as of October 8, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 439,789
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3,236 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,637 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.58 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 439,789 shares: past it once at 4:55 p.m., twice at 5:11 p.m., three times at 6:05 p.m.
- Other days WORX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on November 4, 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:14 p.m. | 12:24 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 12.6% | $4.55, up 3.6% | down 1.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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