Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
CAPR, August 14: news and a gap that faded
CAPR opened up 82% after news, then faded below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:17 p.m. the day before. Before the bell it reached $9.61, on 14M shares.
The open
It opened up 82%, at $7.68.
The close
It closed at $6.66, 31% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 82.4% to $7.68 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $6.66.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:57 p.m. | News (Newsfile Corp): Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. Notice of September 28, 2026 Application Deadline for Class Action Lawsuit - Contact Reed Kathrein at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP Before Application Deadline |
| Aug 13, 7:04 p.m. | News (MarketBeat): Capricor Therapeutics Q2 Earnings Call Highlights |
| Aug 13, 7:17 p.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): Capricor Therapeutics, Inc. (CAPR) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Prepared Remarks Transcript |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.21 |
| 6:26 a.m. | Pre-market high, $9.61 |
| 6:26 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.61 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.68, up 82.4% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.66, 30.7% 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
- $4.21
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.68
- Gap at the open
- +82.4%
- Pre-market high
- $9.61 at 6:26 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.61 at 6:26 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.04
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.66
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +58.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.78 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 31.08 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 930,547
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.5×
- Float
- 57.37 million shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 57.91 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 8 hours 42 minutes after the latest news item before it (Seeking Alpha, Aug 13, 7:17 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 13.80 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (43%), 4.44 million in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 13.77 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (43%).
- Other days CAPR met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on September 30, 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 CAPR 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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