Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 21, 2026
INVE, October 21: news and a gap that held
INVE opened up 21% after news and held near that level into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $3.17, on 3.8M shares.
The open
It opened up 21%, at $2.68.
The close
It closed at $2.79, 12% 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 20.7% to $2.68 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $2.79 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): INVE Technologies Announces the Commencement of a $20 Million Modified Dutch Auction Tender Offer for its Common Stock |
| 7:06 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.22 |
| 9:21 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.17 |
| 9:21 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.17 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.68, up 20.7% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.79, 12.0% 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
- $2.22
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.68
- Gap at the open
- +20.7%
- Pre-market high
- $3.17 at 9:21 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.17 at 9:21 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.28
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.79
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +25.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.83 at 5:02 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.15 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 77,178
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 92.8×
- Float
- 20.59 million shares, from filings as of October 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 24.24 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 6 minutes after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 7:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3.77 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (61%), 1.07 million in the first 30 minutes (17%), and 1.39 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (22%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day INVE 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 INVE 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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