Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 2, 2026
GOW, October 2: a run to $4.27
GOW opened near its previous close, then ran to $4.27 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.96, on 1.7M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.26. It ran to $4.27 by 12:10 p.m.
The close
It closed at $3.93, 8% 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 up 9.4% at $3.26, then ran from the open to the high of $4.27 in 160 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:26 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.98 |
| 8:27 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.96 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.26, up 9.4% from the previous close |
| 12:10 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.27 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.93, 8.0% 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
- $2.98
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.26
- Gap at the open
- +9.4%
- Pre-market high
- $3.96 at 8:27 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.27 at 12:10 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.05
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.93
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +31.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.90 at 7:52 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.68 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 49,492
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 10.0×
- Float
- 10.52 million shares, from filings as of October 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.95 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.66 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (45%), 418,490 in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 1.65 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (44%).
- Other days GOW met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 20, 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 GOW 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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