Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 15, 2026
BEEM, October 15: news and a pre-market spike to $1.31
BEEM spiked to $1.31 before the open after news, then gave much of it back in the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 6:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.31, on 11M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.03.
The close
It closed at $0.9539, 27% under its high.
What to take from it: The move happened before the bell. The regular session never got back to the pre-market high.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Pre-market spike. Before the open it spiked 31.8% from $0.994 to $1.31 at 6:34 a.m.. It opened up 3.6% at $1.03 and traded at $0.9539 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Beam Global's Pending Drone Company Acquisition ScoutDI Wins Milestone Order from Nuclear Sector Customer |
| 6:16 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.994 |
| 6:34 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.31 |
| 6:34 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.31 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.03, up 3.6% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.9539, 27.2% 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
- $0.994
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.03
- Gap at the open
- +3.6%
- Pre-market high
- $1.31 at 6:34 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.31 at 6:34 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.86
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.9539
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −4.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.10 at 5:09 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 13.54 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 267,681
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 86.8×
- Float
- 21.49 million shares, from filings as of October 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 22.63 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 16 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 6:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 10.93 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (79%), 950,968 in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 1.93 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (14%).
- Other days BEEM met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 20, 2026.
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 BEEM 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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