Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 12, 2026
LGCL, August 12: a run to $1.57
LGCL opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.57 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.38, on 2K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.36. It ran to $1.57 by 2:51 p.m.
The close
It closed at $1.48, 6% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 2.2% at $1.36, then ran from the open to the high of $1.57 in 321 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.38 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.36, down 2.2% from the previous close |
| 2:51 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.57 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.48, 5.7% below the high |
| 4:05 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.39 |
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
- $1.39
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.36
- Gap at the open
- −2.2%
- Pre-market high
- $1.38 at 4:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.57 at 2:51 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.26
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.48
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +6.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.17 at 4:13 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 598,309
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.78 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.6×
- Float
- 41.60 million shares, from filings as of August 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 42.79 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,798 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 6,582 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 5.37 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days LGCL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 7, 2026.
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 LGCL 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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