Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 23, 2026
SPRC, October 23: an after-hours run to $1.96
SPRC barely moved in the regular session after a 6-K, then ran to $1.96 after the close.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
A thin pre-market spike
Early trading was thin, with 63K shares. It ran to $1.42 at 5:48 a.m., up 18% on the $1.20 close, then fell to $1.30.
The session bled lower
The open brought sellers. It started at $1.21 and fell to $1.12 that first minute.
Stop It's 10:19. The price is $1.12. The previous close was $1.20, and the stock hit $1.42 in the pre-market. A 6-K was filed at 7:00 a.m. It opened at $1.21, fell to $1.12 in the first minute on heavy volume, and has since moved in a narrow $1.11 to $1.14 range on thin trading, with many minutes having no trades at all. The last minute printed 189 shares at $1.12. Would you buy here?
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It drifted to $1.07 by 2:47 p.m. and closed at $1.08, on just 44K shares.
After hours, the real move
The day's move came after the close, on 3.3M shares against a 556K float. It jumped to $1.45 by 5:37 p.m., dipped, then hit $1.96 in the 7:46 p.m. minute, 81% above the close.
What to take from it: The big move came after the close, from a stock that closed 24% below its pre-market high.
Replay SPRC's day
It starts at 10:16 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:19 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened up 0.8% at $1.21 and traded at $1.08 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 81.5% from $1.08 to $1.96 at 7:46 p.m. after the close, on 3.30 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 5:48 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.42 | |
| 5:48 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.42 | |
| 7:00 a.m. | SEC filing 6-K: REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.21, up 0.8% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.08, 23.9% below the high | |
| 5:37 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.20 | |
| 5:51 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 555,738 shares |
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
- $1.20
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.21
- Gap at the open
- +0.8%
- Pre-market high
- $1.42 at 5:48 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.42 at 5:48 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.07
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.08
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −10.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.96 at 7:46 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 107,011
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.30 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.3×
- Float
- 555,738 shares, from filings as of October 23, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 580,973
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 10 hours 36 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (6-K, 7:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 62,754 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 10,668 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 3.33 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 555,738 shares: past it once at 5:51 p.m., twice at 6:21 p.m., three times at 6:43 p.m.
- Other days SPRC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 26, 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 SPRC 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.
Trade this day
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