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Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 30, 2026

FMC, October 30: news and $6.24

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FMC opened up 10% after news, ran to $6.24, and held most of the move into the close.

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NewsNews$6.24$4.78$4.594 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
FMC on October 30, 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 8:06 p.m. the day before. Before the bell it reached $5.27, on 54K shares.

The open

It opened up 10%, at $5.27. It ran to $6.24 by 3:59 p.m.

The close

It closed at $6.20, near its high.

What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.

The details

How it traded, step by step

Gap and go. It gapped up 10.3% to $5.27 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $6.24 in 389 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 5% of it by 4:00 p.m.

Time (ET)What happened
Oct 29, 4:30 p.m.News (PRNewsWire): FMC Corporation Reports Third-Quarter 2026 Results and Revised Fourth-Quarter Outlook
Oct 29, 8:06 p.m.News (Zacks Investment Research): FMC (FMC) Reports Q3 Loss, Beats Revenue Estimates
9:29 a.m.Pre-market high, $5.27
9:30 a.m.The open: $5.27, up 10.3% from the previous close
10:21 a.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.78
3:59 p.m.High of the day to the close, $6.24
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.20, 0.7% 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
$4.78
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$5.27
Gap at the open
+10.3%
Pre-market high
$5.27 at 9:29 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$6.24 at 3:59 p.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$4.59
Close, 4 p.m.
$6.20
Change at 4 p.m.
+29.6%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$6.23 at 4:07 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
7.53 million
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
2.02 million
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
2.0×
Float
154.36 million shares, from filings as of October 30, 2026
Shares outstanding
155.56 million
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 14 hours 14 minutes after the latest news item before it (Zacks Investment Research, Oct 29, 8:06 p.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 54,284 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 998,451 in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 8.50 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (89%).
  • In our recaps, this is the only day FMC 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 FMC 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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