Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 30, 2026
CAPR, September 30: a gap that faded
CAPR opened up 17%, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $12.48, on 4.2M shares.
The open
It opened up 17%, at $10.01.
The close
It closed at $9.47, 24% 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 16.8% to $10.01 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $9.47.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:04 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $8.57 |
| 4:16 a.m. | Pre-market high, $12.48 |
| 4:16 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $12.48 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $10.01, up 16.8% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $9.47, 24.1% 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
- $8.57
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $10.01
- Gap at the open
- +16.8%
- Pre-market high
- $12.48 at 4:16 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $12.48 at 4:16 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.40
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $9.47
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +10.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $9.56 at 4:31 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 10.15 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 452,445
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.6×
- Float
- 57.60 million shares, from filings as of September 30, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 58.14 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.17 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (39%), 2.14 million in the first 30 minutes (20%), and 4.30 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (41%).
- Other days CAPR met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on August 24, 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 CAPR 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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