Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 17, 2026
UFI, August 17: an 8-K and $8.05
UFI opened near its previous close after an 8-K, then ran to $8.05 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 8:03 a.m. Before the bell it reached $7.39, on 25K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $7.00. It ran to $8.05 by 3:58 p.m.
The close
It closed at $8.03, 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 8.5% at $7.00, then ran from the open to the high of $8.05 in 388 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): UNIFI®, Makers of REPREVE®, Announces an Agreement to Sell Non-Strategic Real Estate in the U.S., with $60 Million of Expected Gross Proceeds to Deleverage and Transform the Balance Sheet |
| 8:03 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K |
| 8:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.39 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.00, up 8.5% from the previous close |
| 2:07 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $6.45 |
| 3:58 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.05 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.03, 0.2% 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
- $6.45
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.00
- Gap at the open
- +8.5%
- Pre-market high
- $7.39 at 8:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.05 at 3:58 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.40
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.03
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +24.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.23 at 6:57 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 509,617
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 9,654
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.2×
- Float
- 16.00 million shares, from filings as of August 17, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 18.59 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 6 hours 3 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 8:03 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 24,891 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (5%), 276,129 in the first 30 minutes (53%), and 218,251 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (42%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day UFI 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 UFI 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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