Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
STKH, August 14: a run to $8.20
STKH opened up 83%, ran to $6.29, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $8.20, on 8.1M shares.
The open
It opened up 83%, at $5.26. It ran to $6.29 by 9:34 a.m.
The close
It closed at $3.59, 56% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 82.6% to $5.26 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $6.29 in 4 minutes, then gave back 262% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $3.59, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:33 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.88 |
| 8:37 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 825,516 shares |
| 8:38 a.m. | Pre-market high, $8.20 |
| 8:38 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.20 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.26, up 82.6% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.59, 56.2% 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
- $2.88
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.26
- Gap at the open
- +82.6%
- Pre-market high
- $8.20 at 8:38 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.20 at 8:38 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.81
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.59
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +24.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.78 at 6:43 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 14.12 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 139,478
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.9×
- Float
- 825,516 shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.01 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8.13 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (57%), 3.04 million in the first 30 minutes (21%), and 3.09 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (22%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 825,516 shares: past it once at 8:37 a.m., twice at 8:38 a.m., three times at 8:39 a.m.
- Other days STKH met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 1, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, intraday runners. 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 STKH 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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