Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 27, 2026
MFIC, October 27: news and a gap that held
MFIC opened up 22% 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 6:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $10.45, on 454K shares.
The open
It opened up 22%, at $10.20.
The close
It closed at $10.27, near 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 22.0% to $10.20 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $10.27 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Ares Capital Corporation Agrees to Acquire MidCap Financial Investment Corporation |
| 6:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $8.36 |
| 6:02 a.m. | Pre-market high, $10.45 |
| 6:02 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $10.45 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $10.20, up 22.0% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $10.27, 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
- $8.36
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $10.20
- Gap at the open
- +22.0%
- Pre-market high
- $10.45 at 6:02 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $10.45 at 6:02 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.31
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $10.27
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +22.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $10.35 at 4:54 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.88 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 111,032
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 12.5×
- Float
- 11.90 million shares, from filings as of October 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 82.37 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 6:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 453,707 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (11%), 570,846 in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 2.97 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (74%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day MFIC met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, 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 MFIC 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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