Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 9, 2026
LABT, September 9: a run to $2.90
LABT opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.61 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.90, on 1.8M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.20. It ran to $2.61 by 10:04 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.32, 20% 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 0.9% at $2.20, then ran from the open to the high of $2.61 in 34 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:59 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.18 |
| 4:59 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.90 |
| 4:59 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.90 |
| 7:24 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.65 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.20, up 0.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.32, 20.0% 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
- $2.18
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.20
- Gap at the open
- +0.9%
- Pre-market high
- $2.90 at 4:59 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.90 at 4:59 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.84
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.32
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +6.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.42 at 5:24 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.53 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 51,066
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.7×
- Float
- 1.65 million shares, from filings as of September 9, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.37 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.78 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (69%), 123,443 in the first 30 minutes (5%), and 669,758 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (26%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.65 million shares: past it once at 7:24 a.m.
- Other days LABT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 23, 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 LABT 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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