Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 26, 2026
YMAT, October 26: a gap that held
YMAT opened up 12% and held near that level into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.94, on 2.3M shares.
The open
It opened up 12%, at $2.30.
The close
It closed at $2.31, 21% 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 12.2% to $2.30 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $2.31 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:36 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.05 |
| 4:38 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.94 |
| 4:38 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.94 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.30, up 12.2% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.31, 21.4% 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
- $2.05
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.30
- Gap at the open
- +12.2%
- Pre-market high
- $2.94 at 4:38 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.94 at 4:38 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.05
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.31
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +12.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.52 at 6:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.96 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 125,886
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.5×
- Float
- 3.35 million shares, from filings as of October 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.44 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.26 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (73%), 232,714 in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 590,616 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (19%).
- Other days YMAT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 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 YMAT 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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