Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 9, 2026
OCC, September 9: news and $16.27
OCC opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $14.07 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 8:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $16.27, on 220K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $12.34. It ran to $14.07 by 3:29 p.m.
The close
It closed at $13.70, 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 down 9.9% at $12.34, then ran from the open to the high of $14.07 in 359 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:43 a.m. | Pre-market high, $16.27 |
| 4:43 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $16.27 |
| 8:00 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): OPTICAL CABLE CORPORATION REPORTS THIRD QUARTER OF FISCAL YEAR 2026 FINANCIAL RESULTS |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $12.34, down 9.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $13.70, 15.8% 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
- $13.70
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $12.34
- Gap at the open
- −9.9%
- Pre-market high
- $16.27 at 4:43 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $16.27 at 4:43 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $11.20
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $13.70
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +0.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $13.71 at 4:08 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 795,020
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 26,323
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 7.3×
- Float
- 6.74 million shares, from filings as of September 9, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.84 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 219,552 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (27%), 132,286 in the first 30 minutes (16%), and 469,505 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (57%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day OCC met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. 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 OCC 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
Replay OCC on September 9, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.