Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 7, 2026
CPHI, October 7: a run to $1.28
CPHI opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.28 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $0.7989, on 287K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.68. It ran to $1.28 by 2:24 p.m.
The close
It closed at $0.88, 31% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 6.1% at $0.68, then ran from the open to the high of $1.28 in 294 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:11 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.6411 |
| 9:11 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.7989 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.68, up 6.1% from the previous close |
| 2:24 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.28 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.88, 31.3% 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
- $0.6411
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.68
- Gap at the open
- +6.1%
- Pre-market high
- $0.7989 at 9:11 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.28 at 2:24 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.6301
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.88
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +37.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.16 at 5:30 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 17.65 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.60 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 271.0×
- Float
- 30.35 million shares, from filings as of October 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 43.02 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 286,753 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 28,461 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 21.94 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Other days CPHI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 8, 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 CPHI 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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