Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 14, 2026
PTN, September 14: a run to $13.78
PTN opened near its previous close, then ran to $13.78 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $11.72. It ran to $13.78 by 3:52 p.m.
The close
It closed at $13.59, near 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 down 0.7% at $11.72, then ran from the open to the high of $13.78 in 382 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $11.72, down 0.7% from the previous close |
| 3:52 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $13.78 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $13.59, 1.4% below the high |
| 4:05 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $11.80 |
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
- $11.80
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $11.72
- Gap at the open
- −0.7%
- Pre-market high
- not available
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $13.78 at 3:52 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $11.18
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $13.59
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +15.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $17.10 at 5:09 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 326,766
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 32,528
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.9×
- Float
- 1.75 million shares, from filings as of September 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.78 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,893 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 357,401 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Other days PTN met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 2, 2026.
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 PTN 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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