Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 30, 2026
SOTK, September 30: news and $6.35
SOTK opened up 11% after news, ran to $6.35, then gave back some of the run by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $5.70, on 6K shares.
The open
It opened up 11%, at $5.51. It ran to $6.35 by 9:50 a.m.
The close
It closed at $5.95, 6% under its high.
What to take from it: The high came early. Most of the run was gone by the close, so the move was in the morning, not the hold.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 10.6% to $5.51 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $6.35 in 20 minutes, then gave back 48% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $5.95, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Sono-Tek Announces Record $7.19 Million in Orders from Advanced Clean Energy Sector Customer |
| 7:06 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.70 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.51, up 10.6% from the previous close |
| 9:33 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.98 |
| 9:50 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.35 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.95, 6.3% 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
- $4.98
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.51
- Gap at the open
- +10.6%
- Pre-market high
- $5.70 at 7:06 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.35 at 9:50 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.16
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.95
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +19.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.10 at 5:37 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 246,161
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 8,111
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.9×
- Float
- 14.84 million shares, from filings as of September 30, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 15.72 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 hours 33 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 5,584 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 88,212 in the first 30 minutes (35%), and 160,476 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (63%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day SOTK met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers. 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 SOTK 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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