Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 19, 2026
VAI, October 19: news and $2.85
VAI opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $2.80 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 6:58 a.m. Before the bell it reached $2.85, on 300K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.49. It ran to $2.80 by 2:28 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.62, 8% under 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 $2.49, then ran from the open to the high of $2.80 in 298 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:58 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Valor Energy Inc. Enters into Agreement to Acquire 18MW Computing Center in Youngstown, Ohio |
| 6:58 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.33 |
| 6:58 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.85 |
| 6:58 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.85 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.49, up 6.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.62, 8.1% 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
- $2.33
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.49
- Gap at the open
- +6.9%
- Pre-market high
- $2.85 at 6:58 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.85 at 6:58 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.33
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.62
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +12.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.67 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 393,602
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3,457
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 12.6×
- Float
- 14.56 million shares, from filings as of October 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.56 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, 6:58 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 300,101 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (76%), 12,394 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 84,564 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (21%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day VAI met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 VAI 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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