Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 6, 2026
OFS, October 6: an 8-K and a gap that held
OFS opened up 11% after an 8-K and held near that level into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 8:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $4.11, on 21K shares.
The open
It opened up 11%, at $3.96.
The close
It closed at $4.16, near its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 11.2% to $3.96 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $4.16 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): OFS Capital Corporation Announces Partial Monetization of Equity Interest for $52.3 Million of Gross Proceeds |
| 8:00 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K |
| 9:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.11 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.96, up 11.2% from the previous close |
| 9:45 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.56 |
| 9:45 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.30 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.16, 3.3% 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
- $3.56
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.96
- Gap at the open
- +11.2%
- Pre-market high
- $4.11 at 9:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.30 at 9:45 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.56
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.16
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +16.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.18 at 5:25 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 279,236
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1,598
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 9.5×
- Float
- 10.37 million shares, from filings as of October 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.40 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 44 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 8:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 21,477 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (8%), 110,989 in the first 30 minutes (40%), and 148,368 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (53%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day OFS met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for OFS 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.
Trade this day
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