Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 28, 2026
WETO, August 28: an after-hours run to $8.00
WETO barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $8.00 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $15.52, on 190K shares.
The open
It opened down 17%, at $9.59.
The close
It closed at $5.75, 63% under its high. After the close it ran to $8.00 by 5:28 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened down 16.6% at $9.59 and traded at $5.75 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 39.1% from $5.75 to $8.00 at 5:28 p.m. after the close, on 509,627 shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $11.50 |
| 4:02 a.m. | Pre-market high, $15.52 |
| 4:02 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $15.52 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $9.59, down 16.6% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.75, 63.0% below the high |
| 5:28 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 914,205 shares |
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
- $11.50
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $9.59
- Gap at the open
- −16.6%
- Pre-market high
- $15.52 at 4:02 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $15.52 at 4:02 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.30
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.75
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −50.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.00 at 5:28 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 700,380
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 509,627
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.3×
- Float
- 914,205 shares, from filings as of August 28, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.08 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 190,038 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (16%), 40,008 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 979,961 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (81%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 914,205 shares: past it once at 5:28 p.m.
- Other days WETO met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 15, the latest on November 2, 2026.
- The next session, August 31, 2026, it was down 3.8% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
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 WETO 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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