Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 2, 2026
CERS, November 2: news and an after-hours run to $3.04
CERS barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $3.04 after the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:00 p.m. Before the bell it reached $2.31, on 87 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.32.
The close
It closed at $2.33, near its high. After the close it ran to $3.04 by 4:03 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened up 1.3% at $2.32 and traded at $2.33 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 30.5% from $2.33 to $3.04 at 4:03 p.m. after the close, on 1.09 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:38 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.31 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.32, up 1.3% from the previous close |
| 2:11 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.42 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.33, 3.9% below the high |
| 4:00 p.m. | News (Business Wire): Cerus Corporation Announces Positive Topline Results from Phase 3 RedeS Trial of the INTERCEPT Blood System for Red Blood Cells |
| 4:01 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.29 |
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
- $2.29
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.32
- Gap at the open
- +1.3%
- Pre-market high
- $2.31 at 8:38 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.42 at 2:11 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.27
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.33
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +1.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.04 at 4:03 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.47 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.09 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.2×
- Float
- 190.62 million shares, from filings as of November 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 201.52 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 minute after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 4:00 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 87 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 129,806 in the first 30 minutes (5%), and 2.43 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (95%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day CERS 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 CERS 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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