Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 20, 2026
EVAX, October 20: a run to $4.11
EVAX opened near its previous close, then ran to $4.11 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.36, on 1K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.30. It ran to $4.11 by 3:51 p.m.
The close
It closed at $4.09, near 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 0.9% at $3.30, then ran from the open to the high of $4.11 in 381 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.36 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.30, down 0.9% from the previous close |
| 11:36 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.33 |
| 3:51 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.11 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.09, 0.4% 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
- $3.33
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.30
- Gap at the open
- −0.9%
- Pre-market high
- $3.36 at 4:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.11 at 3:51 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.00
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.09
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +22.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.15 at 7:54 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 326,757
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3,368
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 10.8×
- Float
- 7.98 million shares, from filings as of October 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.34 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,210 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 13,719 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 315,196 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (95%).
- Other days EVAX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 20, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 EVAX 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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