Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 27, 2026
CRML, October 27: news and $8.29
CRML opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $8.29 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 8:33 a.m. Before the bell it reached $6.64, on 56K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $6.60. It ran to $8.29 by 3:58 p.m.
The close
It closed at $8.15, near 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 3.8% at $6.60, then ran from the open to the high of $8.29 in 388 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Oct 26, 9:07 p.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): Lithium Junior Miners News For The Month Of October 2026 |
| 8:33 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Critical Metals Corp. Acquisition of European Lithium Becomes Effective |
| 9:27 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.64 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $6.60, up 3.8% from the previous close |
| 3:53 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $6.36 |
| 3:58 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.29 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.15, 1.7% 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
- $6.36
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $6.60
- Gap at the open
- +3.8%
- Pre-market high
- $6.64 at 9:27 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.29 at 3:58 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.31
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.15
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +28.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.35 at 4:09 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7.10 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5.37 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.8×
- Float
- 99.72 million shares, from filings as of October 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 148.10 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 7 hours 20 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 8:33 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 55,856 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 513,621 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 11.90 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (95%).
- Other days CRML met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 21, 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 CRML 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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