Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 26, 2026
HAO, October 26: an after-hours run to $2.76
HAO barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $2.76 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.01, on 850 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.02.
The close
It closed at $1.97, 7% under its high. After the close it ran to $2.76 by 5:47 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened down 4.7% at $2.02 and traded at $1.97 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 40.1% from $1.97 to $2.76 at 5:47 p.m. after the close, on 585,807 shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.01 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.02, down 4.7% from the previous close |
| 9:30 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.11 |
| 3:13 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.97, 6.6% below the high |
| 5:43 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.12 |
| 5:55 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 350,148 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
- $2.12
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.02
- Gap at the open
- −4.7%
- Pre-market high
- $2.01 at 7:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.11 at 9:30 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.89
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.97
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −7.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.76 at 5:47 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 13,243
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 585,807
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 44.2×
- Float
- 350,148 shares, from filings as of October 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 366,126
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 850 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 310 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 597,890 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 350,148 shares: past it once at 5:55 p.m.
- Other days HAO met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on September 23, 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 HAO 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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