Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 29, 2026
EGG, September 29: a run to $13.74
EGG opened near its previous close, then ran to $4.80 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $13.74, on 1.1M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $4.00. It ran to $4.80 by 3:53 p.m.
The close
It closed at $4.75, 65% 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 5.9% at $4.00, then ran from the open to the high of $4.80 in 383 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.25 |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $13.74 |
| 4:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $13.74 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.00, down 5.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.75, 65.4% 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
- $4.25
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.00
- Gap at the open
- −5.9%
- Pre-market high
- $13.74 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $13.74 at 4:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.19
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.75
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +11.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.00 at 4:10 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.42 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 166,200
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 12.7×
- Float
- 8.10 million shares, from filings as of September 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 12.10 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.14 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (72%), 61,251 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 378,306 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (24%).
- Other days EGG met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 28, 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 EGG 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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