Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 21, 2026
FVN, August 21: a run to $15.09
FVN opened near its previous close, then ran to $15.09 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $12.33. It ran to $15.09 by 2:29 p.m.
The close
It closed at $13.13, 13% 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 6.3% at $12.33, then ran from the open to the high of $15.09 in 299 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $12.33, up 6.3% from the previous close |
| 2:05 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $11.60 |
| 2:29 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $15.09 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $13.13, 13.0% 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
- $11.60
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $12.33
- Gap at the open
- +6.3%
- Pre-market high
- not available
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $15.09 at 2:29 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $11.27
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $13.13
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +13.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $14.94 at 6:54 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 731,488
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3,161
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 13.0×
- Float
- 5.80 million shares, from filings as of August 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.54 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 30,701 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 703,948 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
- Other days FVN met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on August 27, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, after-hours movers. 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for FVN 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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