Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
EMAT, August 14: news and $3.52
EMAT opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $3.52 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:05 p.m. the day before. Before the bell it reached $2.40, on 4K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.44. It ran to $3.52 by 2:59 p.m.
The close
It closed at $3.00, 15% 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 up 8.0% at $2.44, then ran from the open to the high of $3.52 in 329 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:05 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Evolution Metals & Technologies Corp. Appoints U.S. Air Force General Thomas A. Bussiere (Ret. |
| 9:24 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.40 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.44, up 8.0% from the previous close |
| 9:47 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.26 |
| 2:59 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.52 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.00, 14.8% 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
- $2.26
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.44
- Gap at the open
- +8.0%
- Pre-market high
- $2.40 at 9:24 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.52 at 2:59 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.25
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.00
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +32.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.03 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.42 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 32,861
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 15.0×
- Float
- 141.72 million shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 621.79 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 17 hours 42 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, Aug 13, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3,891 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 48,910 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 1.40 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
- Other days EMAT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 9, 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 EMAT 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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