Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 11, 2026
GENK, August 11: news and a gap that faded
GENK opened up 16% after news, then faded below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:58 p.m. the day before. Before the bell it reached $2.19, on 433K shares.
The open
It opened up 16%, at $2.12.
The close
It closed at $1.99, 14% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 16.5% to $2.12 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $1.99.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:56 p.m. | News (Zacks Investment Research): GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. (GENK) Reports Q2 Loss, Beats Revenue Estimates |
| Aug 10, 7:05 p.m. | News (MarketBeat): GEN Restaurant Group Q2 Earnings Call Highlights |
| Aug 10, 7:58 p.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. (GENK) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript |
| 9:13 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.82 |
| 9:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.19 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.12, up 16.5% from the previous close |
| 3:22 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.32 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.99, 14.2% 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
- $1.82
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.12
- Gap at the open
- +16.5%
- Pre-market high
- $2.19 at 9:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.32 at 3:22 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.58
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.99
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +9.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.10 at 4:21 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 935,685
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 32,643
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.4×
- Float
- 4.91 million shares, from filings as of August 11, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 32.96 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 13 hours 14 minutes after the latest news item before it (Seeking Alpha, Aug 10, 7:58 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 433,400 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (45%), 113,300 in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 421,628 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (44%).
- Other days GENK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 14, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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.
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