Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 15, 2026
PTLE, October 15: a run to $9.25
PTLE opened near its previous close, then ran to $9.25 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $7.12, on 1 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $7.59. It ran to $9.25 by 3:47 p.m.
The close
It closed at $8.98, 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 6.9% at $7.59, then ran from the open to the high of $9.25 in 377 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.12 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.59, up 6.9% from the previous close |
| 9:49 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $7.10 |
| 3:47 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.25 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.98, 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
- $7.10
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.59
- Gap at the open
- +6.9%
- Pre-market high
- $7.12 at 5:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.25 at 3:47 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.12
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.98
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +26.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $9.10 at 4:04 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 360,426
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1,879
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 20.0×
- Float
- 6.14 million shares, from filings as of October 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 6.28 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 24,101 in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 338,203 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (93%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day PTLE 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 PTLE 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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