Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 13, 2026
EZRA, October 13: an 8-K and $2.62
EZRA opened near its previous close after an 8-K, then ran to $2.36 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 6:30 a.m. Before the bell it reached $2.62, on 2.5M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.90. It ran to $2.36 by 3:56 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.27, 13% 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 down 4.0% at $1.90, then ran from the open to the high of $2.36 in 386 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:30 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K |
| 6:31 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.98 |
| 6:31 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.62 |
| 6:31 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.62 |
| 6:44 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.53 million shares |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.90, down 4.0% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.27, 13.2% 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
- $1.98
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.90
- Gap at the open
- −4.0%
- Pre-market high
- $2.62 at 6:31 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.62 at 6:31 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.74
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.27
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +14.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.34 at 4:08 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.77 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 34,942
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 34.7×
- Float
- 1.53 million shares, from filings as of October 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.68 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 6:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.47 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (88%), 74,641 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 257,626 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (9%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.53 million shares: past it once at 6:44 a.m.
- Other days EZRA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 1, 2026.
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 EZRA 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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