Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 2, 2026
SDEV, October 2: a run to $7.65
SDEV opened up 38%, ran to $7.65, and held most of the move into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.57, on 14M shares.
The open
It opened up 38%, at $5.06. It ran to $7.65 by 3:59 p.m.
The close
It closed at $7.59, near its high.
What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and go. It gapped up 38.3% to $5.06 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $7.65 in 389 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 2% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.66 |
| 6:15 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.57 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.06, up 38.3% from the previous close |
| 10:29 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 29.08 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.65 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.59, 0.8% 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
- $3.66
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.06
- Gap at the open
- +38.3%
- Pre-market high
- $5.57 at 6:15 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.65 at 3:59 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.36
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $7.59
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +107.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $9.22 at 4:25 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 51.32 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 8.64 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 7.3×
- Float
- 29.08 million shares, from filings as of October 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 51.75 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 13.51 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (23%), 7.88 million in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 38.57 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (64%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 29.08 million shares: past it once at 10:29 a.m., twice at 5:54 p.m.
- Other days SDEV met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 11, the latest on October 27, 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 SDEV 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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