Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 11, 2026
PLAG, August 11: news, 29 halts, and $7.06
PLAG opened up 98% after news, ran to $7.06 through 29 halts, and held most of the move into the close.
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What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:30 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.68, on 44M shares.
The open
It opened up 98%, at $1.12. It ran to $7.06 by 3:39 p.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it 29 times, from 10:12 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 12:40 p.m.: 66% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $6.05, 14% under 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.
Replay PLAG's day
It starts at 12:35 p.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 12:38 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
Gap and go. It gapped up 98.0% to $1.12 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $7.06 in 369 minutes through 27 halts, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 17% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): Planet Green Enters the Fast Growing Global Lactoferrin Market, Adding Chief Scientist to Drive Innovation-Based Product Portfolio Growth | |
| 7:35 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.5657 | |
| 7:55 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 11.64 million shares | |
| 8:44 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.68 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.12, up 98.0% from the previous close | |
| 3:39 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.06 | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.05, 14.3% 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
- $0.5657
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.12
- Gap at the open
- +98.0%
- Pre-market high
- $1.68 at 8:44 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.06 at 3:39 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.523
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.05
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +969.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.05 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 90.67 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 15.04 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 52.3×
- Float
- 11.64 million shares, from filings as of August 11, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.23 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 5 minutes after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 7:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 44.13 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (42%), 7.69 million in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 53.90 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (51%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 11.64 million shares: past it once at 7:55 a.m., twice at 8:15 a.m., three times at 8:46 a.m.
- Other days PLAG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 19, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (29)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:12 a.m. | 10:17 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 17.3% | $1.30, up 0.8% | down 8.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:18 a.m. | 10:23 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 7.8% | $1.18, down 0.8% | up 1.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:34 a.m. | 10:39 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 11.6% | $1.52, down 1.3% | up 6.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:42 a.m. | 10:47 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 5.2% | $1.63, up 0.6% | down 0.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 10:56 a.m. | 11:01 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.8% | $1.86, up 3.9% | up 8.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:02 a.m. | 11:17 a.m. | 15 min 0 s | up 12.3% | $2.42, up 20.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 11:17 a.m. | 11:27 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 27.9% | $2.40, down 6.6% | up 7.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:28 a.m. | 11:33 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | unchanged | $2.60, up 1.2% | up 5.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:34 a.m. | 11:39 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 7.0% | $2.76, up 0.4% | up 4.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:41 a.m. | 11:46 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 5.1% | $2.82, down 2.4% | up 5.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 11:47 a.m. | 11:52 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 2.8% | $3.12, up 5.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 11:52 a.m. | 12:02 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 10.1% | $3.70, up 13.1% | up 4.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:03 p.m. | 12:13 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 17.7% | $3.30, down 14.3% | up 6.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:14 p.m. | 12:24 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 8.8% | $3.05, down 13.1% | down 6.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:28 p.m. | 12:38 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 19.1% | $2.74, down 3.5% | up 7.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 12:40 p.m. | 1:45 p.m. | 65 min 0 s | up 3.9% | $4.90, up 66.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 1:45 p.m. | 1:55 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 71.2% | $5.40, up 6.9% | up 2.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:56 p.m. | 2:01 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 9.9% | $5.90, up 6.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 2:01 p.m. | 2:11 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 7.7% | $6.05, up 1.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 2:11 p.m. | 2:16 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 3.7% | $6.27, up 1.1% | down 3.5% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:17 p.m. | 2:37 p.m. | 20 min 0 s | down 2.4% | $5.70, down 5.8% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 2:37 p.m. | 2:52 p.m. | 15 min 0 s | down 8.3% | $5.01, down 9.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 2:52 p.m. | 2:57 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.4% | $4.70, down 3.3% | up 3.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 2:58 p.m. | 3:03 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 0.2% | $4.85, unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 3:03 p.m. | 3:28 p.m. | 25 min 0 s | up 3.1% | $6.20, up 24.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 3:28 p.m. | 3:33 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 27.0% | $6.50, up 2.4% | up 2.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:34 p.m. | 3:39 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 4.7% | $6.81, up 2.4% | down 7.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 3:40 p.m. | 3:45 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 5.4% | $6.29, unchanged | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | ||
| 3:45 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 14 min 34 s | down 3.8% | $5.95, down 1.7% | down 28.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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