Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 20, 2026
SPHL, October 20: an after-hours run to $3.33
SPHL barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $3.33 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.25, on 404 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.22.
The close
It closed at $2.30, near its high. After the close it ran to $3.33 by 4:30 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 0.4% at $2.22 and traded at $2.30 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 44.8% from $2.30 to $3.33 at 4:30 p.m. after the close, on 2.28 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:20 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.25 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.22, down 0.4% from the previous close |
| 3:42 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.39 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.30, 3.8% below the high |
| 4:00 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.23 |
| 4:30 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.24 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
- $2.23
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.22
- Gap at the open
- −0.4%
- Pre-market high
- $2.25 at 4:20 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.39 at 3:42 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.18
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.30
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +3.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.33 at 4:30 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3,420
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.28 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.2×
- Float
- 1.24 million shares, from filings as of October 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 12.26 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 404 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 467 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.28 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.24 million shares: past it once at 4:30 p.m.
- Other days SPHL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 21, 2026.
- The next session, October 21, 2026, it was up 44.9% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
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 SPHL 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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