Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026
SST, August 31: news and $2.63
SST opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $2.63 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 9:06 a.m. Before the bell it reached $2.18, on 19K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.96. It ran to $2.63 by 1:27 p.m.
The close
It closed at $2.22, 16% 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 3.7% at $1.96, then ran from the open to the high of $2.63 in 237 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:06 a.m. | News (Business Wire): MapQuest Surges to No. 1 in the Apple App Store, 30 Years After Inventing Online Mapping |
| 9:07 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.18 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.96, up 3.7% from the previous close |
| 12:04 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.89 |
| 1:27 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.63 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.22, 15.6% 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
- $1.89
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.96
- Gap at the open
- +3.7%
- Pre-market high
- $2.18 at 9:07 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.63 at 1:27 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.88
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.22
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +17.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.45 at 6:03 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.78 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 57,909
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 32.3×
- Float
- 4.42 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.49 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 hours 58 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 9:06 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 19,481 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 18,015 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 2.80 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Other days SST met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 8, 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 SST 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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