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Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 28, 2026

KDK, October 28: news and a gap that held

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KDK opened up 15% after news and held near that level into the close.

News via Stock News API

News$1.78$1.124 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
KDK on October 28, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

Before the open

The news came first: news at 9:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.33, on 629K shares.

The open

It opened up 15%, at $1.29.

The close

It closed at $1.30, 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 15.2% to $1.29 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $1.30 at 4:00 p.m.

Time (ET)What happened
9:00 a.m.News (GlobeNewsWire): Kodiak AI and DTL Transport Reach Historic Agreement To Deploy 75 Driverless Trucks As Part of Commercial Driver-As-A-Service Rollout
9:10 a.m.Pre-market high, $1.33
9:30 a.m.The open: $1.29, up 15.2% from the previous close
10:28 a.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.12
10:30 a.m.High of the day to the close, $1.36
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.30, 4.0% 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
$1.12
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$1.29
Gap at the open
+15.2%
Pre-market high
$1.33 at 9:10 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$1.36 at 10:30 a.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$1.16
Close, 4 p.m.
$1.30
Change at 4 p.m.
+16.5%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$1.78 at 6:26 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
4.39 million
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
3.79 million
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
2.4×
Float
138.43 million shares, from filings as of October 28, 2026
Shares outstanding
200.62 million
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 28 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 9:00 a.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 628,895 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (8%), 760,553 in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 6.78 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (83%).
  • In our recaps, this is the only day KDK met the small-cap rule.

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 KDK 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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