Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 9, 2026
APUS, October 9: an after-hours run to $8.48
APUS barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $8.48 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $6.16, on 10K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $5.54.
The close
It closed at $4.68, 24% under its high. After the close it ran to $8.48 by 6:17 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 up 0.5% at $5.54 and traded at $4.68 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 81.2% from $4.68 to $8.48 at 6:17 p.m. after the close, on 1.57 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.16 |
| 4:01 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.16 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.54, up 0.5% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.68, 24.0% below the high |
| 6:05 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.51 |
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
- $5.51
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.54
- Gap at the open
- +0.5%
- Pre-market high
- $6.16 at 4:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.16 at 4:01 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.43
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.68
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −15.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.48 at 6:17 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 177,347
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.57 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.4×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 10,130 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 59,513 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 1.68 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (96%).
- Other days APUS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 9, the latest on October 12, 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 APUS 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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