Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 26, 2026
SPRC, October 26: a run to $2.42
SPRC opened up 46%, ran to $1.78, then fell below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.42, on 7.3M shares.
The open
It opened up 46%, at $1.59. It ran to $1.78 by 9:31 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.29, 47% under its high.
What to take from it: The whole move was given back: it finished below the price it opened at.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 46.3% to $1.59 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.78 in 1 minute, then gave back 265% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.29, below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.09 |
| 4:02 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.42 |
| 4:02 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 555,738 shares |
| 4:02 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.42 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.59, up 46.3% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.29, 46.7% 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
- $1.09
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.59
- Gap at the open
- +46.3%
- Pre-market high
- $2.42 at 4:02 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.42 at 4:02 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.17
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.29
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +18.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.29 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 16.62 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.37 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 18.8×
- Float
- 555,738 shares, from filings as of October 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 580,973
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 7.29 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (41%), 5.01 million in the first 30 minutes (28%), and 5.69 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (32%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 555,738 shares: past it once at 4:02 a.m., twice at 4:04 a.m., three times at 4:09 a.m.
- Other days SPRC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 23, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, 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 SPRC 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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