Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 1, 2026
LIDR, September 1: an 8-K and a gap that faded
LIDR opened up 37% after an 8-K, then faded below its open by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 7:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.81, on 28M shares.
The open
It opened up 37%, at $1.58.
The close
It closed at $1.46, 19% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 37.4% to $1.58 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $1.46.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): AEye's Apollo™ Lidar Selected by Lunar Outpost for Pegasus Lunar Terrain Vehicle, Opening a New Market Category in Space Mobility |
| 7:00 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: CURRENT REPORT |
| 7:29 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.15 |
| 8:39 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.81 |
| 8:39 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.81 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.58, up 37.4% from the previous close |
| 12:16 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 44.53 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.46, 19.3% 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
- $1.15
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.58
- Gap at the open
- +37.4%
- Pre-market high
- $1.81 at 8:39 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.81 at 8:39 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.13
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.46
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +27.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.50 at 4:52 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 51.67 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.05 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 133.3×
- Float
- 44.53 million shares, from filings as of September 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 46.49 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 28 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 7:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 27.81 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (53%), 7.15 million in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 17.77 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (34%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 44.53 million shares: past it once at 12:16 p.m.
- In our recaps, this is the only day LIDR met the small-cap rule.
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 LIDR 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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