Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 8, 2026
XRTX, October 8: news and an after-hours run to $2.46
XRTX barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $2.46 after the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:00 p.m. Before the bell it reached $1.75, on 20 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.73.
The close
It closed at $1.78, near its high. After the close it ran to $2.46 by 4:22 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 0.9% at $1.73 and traded at $1.78 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 37.8% from $1.78 to $2.46 at 4:22 p.m. after the close, on 5.36 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:53 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.75 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.73, down 0.9% from the previous close |
| 3:53 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.83 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.78, 2.5% below the high |
| 4:00 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): XORTX Outlines Anticipated Health Canada Clinical Trial Application for XRx-026 for Gout |
| 4:03 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.75 |
| 4:15 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.77 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
- $1.75
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.73
- Gap at the open
- −0.9%
- Pre-market high
- $1.75 at 4:53 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.83 at 3:53 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.71
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.78
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +2.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.46 at 4:22 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6,718
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5.36 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 17.4×
- Float
- 1.77 million shares, from filings as of October 8, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.82 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 3 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:00 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 20 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 111 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 5.37 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.77 million shares: past it once at 4:15 p.m., twice at 4:39 p.m., three times at 7:43 p.m.
- Other days XRTX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on October 9, 2026.
- The next session, October 9, 2026, it gapped up 13.9% at 9:30 a.m.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 XRTX 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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