Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 2, 2026
VIOT, September 2: a run to $1.87
VIOT opened up 22%, ran to $1.87, and held most of the move into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.53, on 5.9M shares.
The open
It opened up 22%, at $1.18. It ran to $1.87 by 3:46 p.m.
The close
It closed at $1.79, near its high.
What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and go. It gapped up 21.7% to $1.18 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.87 in 376 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 12% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:06 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.9693 |
| 8:07 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.53 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.18, up 21.7% from the previous close |
| 3:46 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.87 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.79, 4.3% 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
- $0.9693
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.18
- Gap at the open
- +21.7%
- Pre-market high
- $1.53 at 8:07 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.87 at 3:46 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.98
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.79
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +84.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.00 at 7:59 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 21.96 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.65 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 227.4×
- Float
- 30.40 million shares, from filings as of September 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 65.95 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 5.87 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (25%), 2.87 million in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 14.88 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (63%).
- Other days VIOT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 1, 2026.
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 VIOT 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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