Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026
LABT, August 31: a run to $2.57
LABT opened near its previous close, then ran to $2.57 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.33, on 2K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.23. It ran to $2.57 by 3:56 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.51, 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 down 3.0% at $2.23, then ran from the open to the high of $2.57 in 386 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:27 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.33 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.23, down 3.0% from the previous close |
| 3:56 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.57 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.51, 2.3% below the high |
| 4:00 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.30 |
| 4:11 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.25 million 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
- $2.30
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.23
- Gap at the open
- −3.0%
- Pre-market high
- $2.33 at 7:27 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.57 at 3:56 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.22
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.51
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +9.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.77 at 4:14 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 124,597
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 7.84 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 138.9×
- Float
- 2.25 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.37 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2,091 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 5,468 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 7.95 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.25 million shares: past it once at 4:11 p.m., twice at 4:24 p.m., three times at 5:05 p.m.
- Other days LABT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 23, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 LABT 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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