Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
BLZE, August 3: news and $15.69
BLZE opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $15.69 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:05 p.m. Before the bell it reached $14.80, on 15K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $13.82. It ran to $15.69 by 3:58 p.m.
The close
It closed at $15.60, 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 up 0.7% at $13.82, then ran from the open to the high of $15.69 in 388 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:53 a.m. | Pre-market high, $14.80 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $13.82, up 0.7% from the previous close |
| 1:16 p.m. | News (Business Wire): Backblaze to Present at Ai4 2026 on Keeping GPUs Fed at Multimodal Scale |
| 3:58 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $15.69 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $15.60, 0.5% below the high |
| 4:05 p.m. | News (Business Wire): Backblaze Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results |
| 4:05 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $13.72 |
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
- $13.72
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $13.82
- Gap at the open
- +0.7%
- Pre-market high
- $14.80 at 4:53 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $15.69 at 3:58 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $13.48
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $15.60
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +13.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $19.20 at 4:33 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.88 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 729,021
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.2×
- Float
- 56.92 million shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 60.00 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 14,937 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 121,066 in the first 30 minutes (5%), and 2.48 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (95%).
- Other days BLZE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on November 3, 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 BLZE 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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