Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 12, 2026
SKK, October 12: news and an after-hours run to $8.10
SKK barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $8.10 after the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:45 p.m. Before the bell it reached $5.90, on 4K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $5.65.
The close
It closed at $6.05, near its high. After the close it ran to $8.10 by 4:45 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 up 2.7% at $5.65 and traded at $6.05 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 33.9% from $6.05 to $8.10 at 4:45 p.m. after the close, on 234,728 shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:07 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.90 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.65, up 2.7% from the previous close |
| 3:55 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.15 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.05, 1.6% below the high |
| 4:45 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): SKK Holdings Completes $258.8 Million Acquisition of Drone Assets from Rantizo, Inc., Establishing a Publicly Traded Drone Platform for Commercial Applications, and Changes Name to Rantizo |
| 4:45 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.50 |
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
- $5.50
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.65
- Gap at the open
- +2.7%
- Pre-market high
- $5.90 at 5:07 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.15 at 3:55 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.45
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.05
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +10.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.10 at 4:45 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 24,339
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 234,728
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.8×
- Float
- 2.88 million shares, from filings as of October 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.96 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:45 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4,378 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 527 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 254,162 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Other days SKK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 7, 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 SKK 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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