Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 11, 2026
KPLT, August 11: news, two halts, and $8.81
KPLT opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $8.81 through two halts during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 8:51 a.m. Before the bell it reached $6.67, on 255 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $6.48. It ran to $8.81 by 9:54 a.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it two times, from 9:38 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 9:55 a.m.: 7% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $7.98, 9% 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 1.9% at $6.48, then ran from the open to the high of $8.81 in 24 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:51 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Katapult, The Aaron's Company, and CCF Holdings Complete Business Combination to Create a Scaled Financial Solutions Platform for Nonprime Consumers |
| 8:52 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.67 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $6.48, up 1.9% from the previous close |
| 9:48 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $6.36 |
| 9:54 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.81 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.98, 9.4% 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
- $6.36
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $6.48
- Gap at the open
- +1.9%
- Pre-market high
- $6.67 at 8:52 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.81 at 9:54 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.36
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $7.98
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +25.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.02 at 4:59 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 360,325
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6,246
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 3.26 million shares, from filings as of August 11, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.97 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 57 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 8:51 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 255 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 95,910 in the first 30 minutes (26%), and 270,406 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (74%).
- Other days KPLT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 29, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (2)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:38 a.m. | 9:43 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 12.5% | $7.49, down 0.7% | down 3.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 9:55 a.m. | 10:00 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 15.9% | $8.20, down 6.9% | up 3.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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