Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026
WBUY, August 31: news and $1.23
WBUY opened up 20% after news, ran to $1.18, then fell below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:30 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.23, on 14M shares.
The open
It opened up 20%, at $0.9997. It ran to $1.18 by 9:55 a.m.
The close
It closed at $0.90, 27% 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 20.4% to $0.9997 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.18 in 25 minutes, then gave back 155% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $0.90, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:30 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): WEBUY GLOBAL LTD. Reports Record NATAS Fair Bookings of US$ 4.76 Million, 42% Higher than March 2026 |
| 4:37 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.83 |
| 5:21 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.17 million shares |
| 5:33 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.23 |
| 5:33 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.23 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.9997, up 20.4% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.90, 26.8% 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
- $0.83
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.9997
- Gap at the open
- +20.4%
- Pre-market high
- $1.23 at 5:33 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.23 at 5:33 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.8232
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.90
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +8.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.00 at 4:50 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 18.65 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 386,551
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 710.7×
- Float
- 3.17 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.20 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 7 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 13.78 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (72%), 1.57 million in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 3.68 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (19%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.17 million shares: past it once at 5:21 a.m., twice at 5:40 a.m., three times at 6:31 a.m.
- Other days WBUY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 13, 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 WBUY 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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