Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 21, 2026
VIVO, October 21: news and $3.12
VIVO opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $3.12 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 10:19 a.m. Before the bell it reached $2.47, on 34K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.28. It ran to $3.12 by 11:19 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.18, 30% 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 3.6% at $2.28, then ran from the open to the high of $3.12 in 109 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:18 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): VivoPower Signs Definitive Heads of Agreement with Open Innovation AI to Develop Secure Sovereign AI Data Centers Across the Nordics, Mainland Europe, the GCC and selective countries in Asia |
| 8:18 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.47 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.28, up 3.6% from the previous close |
| 10:19 a.m. | News (Proactive Investors): VivoPower, Open Innovation AI to develop sovereign AI data centers across Europe, Gulf and Asia |
| 10:38 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.20 |
| 11:19 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.12 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.18, 30.1% 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
- $2.20
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.28
- Gap at the open
- +3.6%
- Pre-market high
- $2.47 at 8:18 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.12 at 11:19 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.16
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.18
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −0.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.33 at 4:09 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.22 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 40,903
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 16.0×
- Float
- 12.29 million shares, from filings as of October 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 16.79 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 18 minutes after the latest news item before it (Proactive Investors, 10:19 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 34,030 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 30,785 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 3.20 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day VIVO met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. 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 VIVO 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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