Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
BIRD, August 27: a run to $3.14
BIRD opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.14 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.46, on 1K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.41. It ran to $3.14 by 1:54 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.77, 12% 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 1.3% at $2.41, then ran from the open to the high of $3.14 in 264 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:23 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.46 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.41, up 1.3% from the previous close |
| 1:51 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.38 |
| 1:54 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.14 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.77, 11.8% 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
- $2.38
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.41
- Gap at the open
- +1.3%
- Pre-market high
- $2.46 at 9:23 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.14 at 1:54 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.35
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.77
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +16.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.84 at 4:10 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.17 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 59,679
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 15.4×
- Float
- 9.26 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 11.81 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,184 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 3,158 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.22 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days BIRD met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 1, 2026.
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 BIRD 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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