Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
GENK, August 10: a quiet session and a busy evening
GENK barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $3.00 after the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
A near-empty session
GENK barely traded all day. It opened at $1.94, below the $1.96 previous close, and drifted lower. The low was $1.78 at 3:09 p.m. Many afternoon minutes had a single share trade, or none.
Stop It's 3:49. The price is $1.80. GENK has drifted down all day from a $1.94 open and sat near $1.80 all afternoon, with a low of $1.78 and most recent minutes showing a single share trade or none at all. It is about 8% below the $1.96 previous close, and the regular session closes in 11 minutes. Would you buy here?
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It closed the regular session at $1.82. Only about 23K shares traded all session.
The 4:05 news
The news came after the close. At 4:05 p.m. the company said it had a non-binding offer to buy its U.S. restaurants. That same minute the stock hit $3.00, up 65%. It closed the minute at $2.52, and it was at $2.12 three minutes later.
Earnings came out at 4:15. The stock pushed to $2.85 at 4:16, then slid to about $2.24 by 4:57.
The offering filing
At 5:09 p.m. the company filed a prospectus, the paperwork for selling new shares. The next minute it fell to $2.06 on about 144K shares. It ended the night at $2.16. After hours, about 3.5M shares traded.
What to take from it: A stock that trades almost nothing all day can jump 65% on after-hours news, and the first spike may not hold.
Replay GENK's day
It starts at 3:47 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 3:50 p.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened down 1.0% at $1.94 and traded at $1.81 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 65.7% from $1.81 to $3.00 at 4:05 p.m. after the close, on 3.49 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.94, down 1.0% from the previous close | |
| 9:33 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.95 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.81, 7.2% below the high | |
| 4:05 p.m. | News (Accesswire): GEN Restaurant Group Receives Non-Binding Letter of Intent from Nationwide Restaurant Operator for Strategic Sale of U.S. Restaurant Operations | |
| 4:05 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.96 |
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
- $1.96
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.94
- Gap at the open
- −1.0%
- Pre-market high
- not available
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.95 at 9:33 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.78
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.81
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −7.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.00 at 4:05 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 22,816
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.49 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 4.95 million shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 32.96 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (Accesswire, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 8,809 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 3.51 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days GENK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 14, 2026.
- The next session, August 11, 2026, it gapped up 14.8% at 9:30 a.m.
On the day's lists: the after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the after-hours movers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, 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 GENK 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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