Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 24, 2026
ZJK, August 24: a run to $2.74
ZJK opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.71 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.74, on 261K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.21. It ran to $2.71 by 11:20 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.51, 8% 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 1.8% at $2.21, then ran from the open to the high of $2.71 in 110 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:02 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.25 |
| 7:02 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.74 |
| 7:02 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.74 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.21, down 1.8% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.51, 8.4% 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
- $2.25
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.21
- Gap at the open
- −1.8%
- Pre-market high
- $2.74 at 7:02 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.74 at 7:02 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.07
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.51
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +11.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.60 at 7:11 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 441,090
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 9,413
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 9.3×
- Float
- 11.33 million shares, from filings as of August 24, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 64.32 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 260,959 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (58%), 53,156 in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 136,388 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (30%).
- Other days ZJK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 21, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers. 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 ZJK 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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