Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 29, 2026
VNDA, September 29: news and an after-hours run to $6.90
VNDA barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $6.90 after the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 6:45 p.m. Before the bell it reached $5.28, on 18 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $5.17.
The close
It closed at $5.02, near its high. After the close it ran to $6.90 by 6:55 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 up 0.0% at $5.17 and traded at $5.02 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 37.5% from $5.02 to $6.90 at 6:55 p.m. after the close, on 1.02 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:09 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.28 |
| 6:09 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.28 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.17, up 0.0% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.02, 4.9% below the high |
| 6:45 p.m. | News (PRNewsWire): Vanda Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase III Results for HETLIOZ®(tasimelteon) in Delayed Sleep-Wake Phase Disorder |
| 6:48 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.17 |
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
- $5.17
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.17
- Gap at the open
- +0.0%
- Pre-market high
- $5.28 at 6:09 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.28 at 6:09 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.00
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.02
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −2.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.90 at 6:55 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 346,032
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.02 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.0×
- Float
- 57.27 million shares, from filings as of September 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 60.46 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 3 minutes after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 6:45 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 18 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 31,078 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 1.33 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day VNDA met the small-cap rule.
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 VNDA 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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