Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 1, 2026
STKH, October 1: a run to $2.30
STKH opened near its previous close, ran to $2.30, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.61, on 926 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.60. It ran to $2.30 by 11:25 a.m.
The close
It closed at $0.7676, 67% under its high.
What to take from it: The run did not hold: it finished below where it opened.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run and fade. It opened up 1.9% at $1.60, then ran from the open to the high of $2.30 in 115 minutes, and gave it all back: it traded at $0.7676 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:51 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.61 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.60, up 1.9% from the previous close |
| 11:21 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.57 |
| 11:25 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.30 |
| 11:26 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 924,722 shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.7676, 66.6% 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
- $1.57
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.60
- Gap at the open
- +1.9%
- Pre-market high
- $1.61 at 6:51 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.30 at 11:25 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.721
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.7676
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −51.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $0.8033 at 5:27 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7.00 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 490,296
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 295.0×
- Float
- 924,722 shares, from filings as of October 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.11 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 926 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 8,439 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 7.48 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 924,722 shares: past it once at 11:26 a.m., twice at 11:33 a.m., three times at 11:39 a.m.
- Other days STKH met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on August 20, 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 STKH 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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