Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026
WFF, August 31: one halt and $2.75
WFF opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.75 through one halt during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.95, on 142K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.88. It ran to $2.75 by 9:44 a.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 9:39 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 9:39 a.m.: 5% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $2.02, 26% 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 8.7% at $1.88, then ran from the open to the high of $2.75 in 14 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:57 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.95 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.88, up 8.7% from the previous close |
| 9:38 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.73 |
| 9:44 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.75 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.02, 26.4% 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
- $1.73
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.88
- Gap at the open
- +8.7%
- Pre-market high
- $1.95 at 6:57 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.75 at 9:44 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.75
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.02
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +17.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.09 at 5:47 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.96 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 54,483
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.6×
- Float
- 41.92 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 45.36 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 141,505 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (7%), 923,606 in the first 30 minutes (46%), and 950,100 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (47%).
- Other days WFF met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on November 3, 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:39 a.m. | 9:44 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 25.3% | $2.50, up 5.0% | down 16.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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