Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 4, 2026
CRCT, November 4: news and $9.10
CRCT opened up 17% after news, ran to $9.10, and held most of the move into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 12:15 a.m. Before the bell it reached $7.15, on 21K shares.
The open
It opened up 17%, at $7.00. It ran to $9.10 by 3:42 p.m.
The close
It closed at $8.89, 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 17.3% to $7.00 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $9.10 in 372 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 10% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Nov 3, 7:14 p.m. | News (MarketBeat): What Cricut (CRCT) Said on Its Q3 Earnings Call |
| Nov 3, 8:56 p.m. | News (Zacks Investment Research): Cricut, Inc. (CRCT) Q3 Earnings and Revenues Top Estimates |
| 12:15 a.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): Cricut, Inc. (CRCT) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript |
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.15 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.00, up 17.3% from the previous close |
| 9:34 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.97 |
| 3:42 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.10 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.89, 2.3% 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
- $5.97
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.00
- Gap at the open
- +17.3%
- Pre-market high
- $7.15 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.10 at 3:42 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.57
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.89
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +48.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $9.08 at 6:30 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.62 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 338,797
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 9.3×
- Float
- 46.77 million shares, from filings as of November 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 208.30 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 9 hours 18 minutes after the latest news item before it (Seeking Alpha, 12:15 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 20,781 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 402,242 in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 3.54 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (89%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day CRCT 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 CRCT 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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