Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 6, 2026
HNST, August 6: news and $5.84
HNST opened up 27% after news, ran to $5.84, then gave back some of the run by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 3:10 a.m. Before the bell it reached $4.97, on 324K shares.
The open
It opened up 27%, at $4.89. It ran to $5.84 by 9:49 a.m.
The close
It closed at $5.42, 7% under its high.
What to take from it: The high came early. Most of the run was gone by the close, so the move was in the morning, not the hold.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 27.0% to $4.89 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $5.84 in 19 minutes, then gave back 44% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $5.42, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 5, 9:37 p.m. | News (Zacks Investment Research): Honest (HNST) Q2 Earnings and Revenues Beat Estimates |
| Aug 5, 10:04 p.m. | News (MarketBeat): Honest Q2 Earnings Call Highlights |
| 3:10 a.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): The Honest Company, Inc. (HNST) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript |
| 4:43 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.85 |
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.97 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.89, up 27.0% from the previous close |
| 9:49 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.84 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.42, 7.2% 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
- $3.85
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.89
- Gap at the open
- +27.0%
- Pre-market high
- $4.97 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.84 at 9:49 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.33
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.42
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +40.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.45 at 4:14 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 10.42 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 315,952
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 15.0×
- Float
- 97.21 million shares, from filings as of August 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 107.28 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 32 minutes after the latest news item before it (Seeking Alpha, 3:10 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 324,448 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (3%), 3.00 million in the first 30 minutes (28%), and 7.41 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (69%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day HNST 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 HNST 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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