Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 6, 2026
SXTC, October 6: an after-hours run to $2.58
SXTC barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $2.58 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.10, on 2K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.04.
The close
It closed at $1.22, 42% under its high. After the close it ran to $2.58 by 4:33 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened down 1.9% at $2.04 and traded at $1.22 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 111.5% from $1.22 to $2.58 at 4:33 p.m. after the close, on 4.22 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.10 |
| 9:28 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.10 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.04, down 1.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.22, 41.9% below the high |
| 4:26 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.32 million shares |
| 4:32 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.08 |
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
- $2.08
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.04
- Gap at the open
- −1.9%
- Pre-market high
- $2.10 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.10 at 9:28 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.19
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.22
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −41.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.58 at 4:33 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 504,347
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.22 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 13.6×
- Float
- 1.32 million shares, from filings as of October 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.32 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2,272 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 13,210 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 4.71 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.32 million shares: past it once at 4:26 p.m., twice at 4:42 p.m., three times at 5:22 p.m.
- Other days SXTC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on October 7, 2026.
- The next session, October 7, 2026, it was up 126.4% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the after-hours movers: 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 SXTC 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.
Trade this day
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