Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 14, 2026
MXCT, October 14: an 8-K and a gap that held
MXCT opened up 27% after an 8-K and held near that level into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 8:10 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.23, on 851K shares.
The open
It opened up 27%, at $1.22.
The close
It closed at $1.25, 6% under its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 26.5% to $1.22 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $1.25 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:05 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): MaxCyte Reports Preliminary Third Quarter 2026 Revenue and Raises Full Year 2026 Revenue Guidance |
| 8:10 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: FORM 8-K |
| 9:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.9643 |
| 9:03 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.23 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.22, up 26.5% from the previous close |
| 9:32 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.32 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.25, 6.0% 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
- $0.9643
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.22
- Gap at the open
- +26.5%
- Pre-market high
- $1.23 at 9:03 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.32 at 9:32 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.00
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.25
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +29.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.31 at 7:52 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.00 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 90,072
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 20.9×
- Float
- 101.77 million shares, from filings as of October 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 103.21 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 49 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 8:10 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 851,386 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (21%), 1.19 million in the first 30 minutes (29%), and 2.05 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (50%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day MXCT met the small-cap rule.
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 MXCT 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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