Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 23, 2026
HVII, September 23: three halts and an after-hours run to $5.40
HVII barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $5.40 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $9.15, on 272 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $8.84.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it three times, from 1:05 p.m. to 1:36 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 1:05 p.m.: 23% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $4.45, 52% under its high. After the close it ran to $5.40 by 4:31 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened down 2.4% at $8.84 and traded at $4.45 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 21.3% from $4.45 to $5.40 at 4:31 p.m. after the close, on 98,882 shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $9.15 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.84, down 2.4% from the previous close |
| 9:30 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.23 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.45, 51.8% 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
- $9.06
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.84
- Gap at the open
- −2.4%
- Pre-market high
- $9.15 at 6:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.23 at 9:30 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.69
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.45
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −50.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.40 at 4:31 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 268,376
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 98,882
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 13.8×
- Float
- 19.69 million shares, from filings as of September 23, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 26.02 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 272 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,507 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 365,479 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days HVII met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 24, 2026.
On the day's lists: the after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the after-hours movers: 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 (3)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:05 p.m. | 1:25 p.m. | 20 min 1 s | down 10.1% | $5.58, down 22.6% | down 8.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:26 p.m. | 1:31 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 29.0% | $5.00, down 2.3% | down 11.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:36 p.m. | 1:41 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 12.6% | $4.25, down 4.1% | down 6.4% | 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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