Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
CELU, August 27: a 9:00 headline, the $2.20 wall, and $2.55
CELU opened up 26% after news, ran to $2.55, then gave back some of the run by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
A slow headline
The 9:00 headline did nothing at first. The stock sat near $0.92 until 9:11, then spiked to $1.40. Two minutes later it was back at $0.95.
The $2.20 wall
After it crossed $2.00, sellers stacked shares at $2.20. That wall peaked at 105K shares at 10:58:37, about 0.6% of the float.
Stop It's 11:00. CELU is at $2.04. A wall that peaked at about 105,000 shares at 10:58 is offered at $2.20, 16 cents above the current price. The stock traded through $2.00 for the first time nine minutes ago. Would you buy here?
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Buyers ate the wall. 63K shares traded at $2.20 in 9 seconds, and it was gone by 11:00:56. One 94K-share buy swept up to $2.25.
The top and the close
The break carried it to $2.55 at 11:04, the day's high. A later push stopped lower, at $2.45. At 11:45 a 130K-share sell sweep started the fade. It closed at $2.09, with 68M shares traded, about 4 times the float.
What to take from it: Here the big wall at $2.20 was eaten, not a ceiling, and the stock ran to $2.55.
Replay CELU's day
It starts at 10:17 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:20 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 26.1% to $1.11 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $2.55 in 94 minutes, then gave back 32% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $2.08, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Celularity and MuseCell Innovations® Announce U.S. Manufacturing Collaboration for the Dezawa MuseCell® Platform | |
| 9:12 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.8804 | |
| 9:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.40 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.11, up 26.1% from the previous close | |
| 10:43 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 17.55 million shares | |
| 11:04 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.55 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.08, 18.2% 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
- $0.8804
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.11
- Gap at the open
- +26.1%
- Pre-market high
- $1.40 at 9:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.55 at 11:04 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.8805
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.08
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +136.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.35 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 71.72 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6.42 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1883.5×
- Float
- 17.55 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 28.95 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 12 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 9:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3.84 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (5%), 2.97 million in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 71.33 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (91%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 17.55 million shares: past it once at 10:43 a.m., twice at 11:13 a.m., three times at 12:39 p.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day CELU met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 CELU 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.
Trade this day
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