Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 27, 2026
SDEV, October 27: a run to $1.25
SDEV opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.25 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $0.9996, on 536K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.988. It ran to $1.25 by 10:26 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.04, 16% 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 6.5% at $0.988, then ran from the open to the high of $1.25 in 56 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:17 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.9996 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.988, up 6.5% from the previous close |
| 9:54 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.9279 |
| 10:26 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.25 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.04, 16.4% 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
- $0.9279
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.988
- Gap at the open
- +6.5%
- Pre-market high
- $0.9996 at 5:17 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.25 at 10:26 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.956
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.04
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +12.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.08 at 7:40 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.79 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 249,763
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.4×
- Float
- 50.45 million shares, from filings as of October 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 73.12 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 535,775 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (8%), 1.66 million in the first 30 minutes (24%), and 4.84 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (69%).
- Other days SDEV met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 11, the latest on October 22, 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 SDEV 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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