Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 7, 2026
ICU, October 7: news and $3.80
ICU opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $3.77 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 8:16 a.m. Before the bell it reached $3.80, on 101K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.26. It ran to $3.77 by 9:55 a.m.
The close
It closed at $3.74, near 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 2.2% at $3.26, then ran from the open to the high of $3.77 in 25 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:16 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): FDA Grants SeaStar Medical Breakthrough Device Designation for its SCD Therapy for the Treatment of Hyperinflammation in Adult Patients with Sepsis or a Septic Condition |
| 8:16 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.80 |
| 8:16 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.80 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.26, up 2.2% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.74, 1.6% 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
- $3.19
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.26
- Gap at the open
- +2.2%
- Pre-market high
- $3.80 at 8:16 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.80 at 8:16 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.05
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.74
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +17.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.72 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 589,906
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5,491
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 15.0×
- Float
- 4.38 million shares, from filings as of October 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.41 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 100,722 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (17%), 199,302 in the first 30 minutes (33%), and 295,373 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (50%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day ICU 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 ICU 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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