Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
TPCS, August 14: news and a gap that held
TPCS opened up 16% after news and held near that level into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 6:37 p.m. the day before. Before the bell it reached $5.92, on 21K shares.
The open
It opened up 16%, at $5.60.
The close
It closed at $5.93, near its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 15.7% to $5.60 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $5.93 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:05 p.m. | News (Accesswire): TechPrecision Corporation Reports Fiscal Year 2027 First Quarter Financial Results |
| Aug 13, 6:37 p.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): TechPrecision Corporation (TPCS) Q1 2027 Earnings Call Transcript |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.84 |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.92 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.60, up 15.7% from the previous close |
| 3:41 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.06 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.93, 2.1% 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
- $4.84
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.60
- Gap at the open
- +15.7%
- Pre-market high
- $5.92 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.06 at 3:41 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.22
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.93
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +22.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.99 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 273,894
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3,262
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 16.9×
- Float
- 8.62 million shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.10 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 9 hours 22 minutes after the latest news item before it (Seeking Alpha, Aug 13, 6:37 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 20,863 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (8%), 48,650 in the first 30 minutes (18%), and 207,643 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (75%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day TPCS met the small-cap rule.
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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for TPCS 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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