Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
STKH, August 20: a gap that held
STKH opened up 12% and held near that level into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $6.00, on 6.6M shares.
The open
It opened up 12%, at $3.93.
The close
It closed at $4.00, 33% under 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 12.3% to $3.93 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $4.00 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:37 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.50 |
| 7:44 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.00 |
| 7:44 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.02 million shares |
| 7:44 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.00 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.93, up 12.3% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.00, 33.3% 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
- $3.50
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.93
- Gap at the open
- +12.3%
- Pre-market high
- $6.00 at 7:44 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.00 at 7:44 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.50
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.00
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +14.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.05 at 7:35 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7.50 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 60,383
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1.8×
- Float
- 1.02 million shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.11 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6.62 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (88%), 226,012 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 718,869 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (10%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.02 million shares: past it once at 7:44 a.m., twice at 7:48 a.m., three times at 7:54 a.m.
- Other days STKH met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 1, 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 STKH 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.
Trade this day
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