Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 18, 2026
CAST, August 18: news and $2.30
CAST opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $2.30 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 5:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $0.9615, on 65K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.8598. It ran to $2.30 by 3:25 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.09, 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 0.0% at $0.8598, then ran from the open to the high of $2.30 in 355 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): FreeCast to Relaunch the Investor News Channel as a Next-Generation Global Business and Financial FAST Network |
| 5:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.9615 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.8598, up 0.0% from the previous close |
| 11:06 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.8598 |
| 11:45 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 4.67 million shares |
| 3:25 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.30 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.09, 9.1% 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
- $0.8598
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.8598
- Gap at the open
- +0.0%
- Pre-market high
- $0.9615 at 5:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.30 at 3:25 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.8598
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.09
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +143.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.03 at 7:15 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 38.88 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 12.73 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 144.2×
- Float
- 4.67 million shares, from filings as of August 18, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 47.58 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 6 hours 6 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 5:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 65,311 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 71,164 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 51.48 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 4.67 million shares: past it once at 11:45 a.m., twice at 12:02 p.m., three times at 12:09 p.m.
- Other days CAST met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 19, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners, after-hours movers. 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 CAST 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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