Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 6, 2026
MTEN, October 6: a 6-K and an after-hours run to $1.75
MTEN barely moved in the regular session after a 6-K, then ran to $1.75 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: a 6-K at 4:30 p.m. Before the bell it reached $0.9901, on 5K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.96.
The close
It closed at $0.9504, near its high. After the close it ran to $1.75 by 7:59 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 0.2% at $0.96 and traded at $0.9504 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 84.7% from $0.9504 to $1.75 at 7:59 p.m. after the close, on 9.04 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:51 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.9901 |
| 4:51 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $0.9901 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.96, down 0.2% from the previous close |
| 3:55 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.9504, 4.0% below the high |
| 4:30 p.m. | SEC filing 6-K: REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER |
| 4:41 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.9624 |
| 6:19 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 6.11 million shares |
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
- $0.9624
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.96
- Gap at the open
- −0.2%
- Pre-market high
- $0.9901 at 4:51 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.9901 at 4:51 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.9504
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.9504
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −1.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.75 at 7:59 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 16,848
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 9.04 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 29.0×
- Float
- 6.11 million shares, from filings as of October 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.65 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 10 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (6-K, 4:30 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 5,040 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2,354 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 9.05 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 6.11 million shares: past it once at 6:19 p.m.
- Other days MTEN met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 7, 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 MTEN 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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