Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 18, 2026
APUS, September 18: a run to $2.50
APUS opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.08 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.50, on 583K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.68. It ran to $2.08 by 10:55 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.80, 28% 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 0.6% at $1.68, then ran from the open to the high of $2.08 in 85 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:46 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.67 |
| 5:49 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.50 |
| 5:49 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.50 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.68, up 0.6% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.80, 28.0% 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
- $1.67
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.68
- Gap at the open
- +0.6%
- Pre-market high
- $2.50 at 5:49 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.50 at 5:49 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.43
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.80
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +7.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.94 at 5:55 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 725,764
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 16,277
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 12.2×
- Float
- 805,943 shares, from filings as of September 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.51 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 583,093 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (79%), 21,007 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 137,941 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (19%).
- Other days APUS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 12, 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 APUS 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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