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PETZ, August 31: a Form 4 and an after-hours run to $1.82

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PETZ barely moved in the regular session after a Form 4, then ran to $1.82 after the close.

4SCHEDULE 13D/A$1.82$1.20$1.154 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
PETZ on August 31, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

Before the open

The news came first: a Form 4 at 4:05 p.m.

The open

It opened near its previous close, at $1.20.

The close

It closed at $1.15, 7% under its high. After the close it ran to $1.82 by 6:37 p.m.

What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.

The details

How it traded, step by step

After-hours run. It opened up 0.0% at $1.20 and traded at $1.15 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 58.3% from $1.15 to $1.82 at 6:37 p.m. after the close, on 4.78 million shares traded after hours.

Time (ET)What happened
9:30 a.m.The open: $1.20, up 0.0% from the previous close
9:30 a.m.High of the day to the close, $1.23
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.15, 6.5% below the high
4:05 p.m.SEC filing SCHEDULE 13D/A:
4:05 p.m.SEC filing 4: Insider buy of 2,969,692 sh at $1.20 ($3.6M) by Liu Dandan (CEO and Chair)
4:06 p.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.20

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
$1.20
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$1.20
Gap at the open
+0.0%
Pre-market high
not available
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$1.23 at 9:30 a.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$1.15
Close, 4 p.m.
$1.15
Change at 4 p.m.
−4.2%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$1.82 at 6:37 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
5,596
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
4.78 million
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
100.6×
Float
8.22 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
Shares outstanding
10.32 million
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest SEC filing before it (4, 4:05 p.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,178 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 4.79 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
  • Other days PETZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 1, 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 PETZ 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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