Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 14, 2026
VNCE, September 14: a run to $7.70
VNCE opened up 11%, ran to $7.70, 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 $6.00, on 11K shares.
The open
It opened up 11%, at $5.80. It ran to $7.70 by 3:00 p.m.
The close
It closed at $7.64, 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 10.7% to $5.80 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $7.70 in 330 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 3% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.00 |
| 9:30 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.24 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.80, up 10.7% from the previous close |
| 3:00 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.70 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.64, 0.8% 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
- $5.24
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.80
- Gap at the open
- +10.7%
- Pre-market high
- $6.00 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.70 at 3:00 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.14
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $7.64
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +45.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.69 at 4:54 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.83 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 80,036
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 18.2×
- Float
- 6.73 million shares, from filings as of September 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 12.94 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 11,337 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 434,610 in the first 30 minutes (23%), and 1.47 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (77%).
- Other days VNCE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 10, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 VNCE 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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