Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 9, 2026
WBUY, October 9: a Schedule 13D and an after-hours run to $1.00
WBUY barely moved in the regular session after a Schedule 13D, then ran to $1.00 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: a Schedule 13D at 4:00 p.m. Before the bell it reached $0.7314, on 204 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.7112.
The close
It closed at $0.6953, near its high. After the close it ran to $1.00 by 5:46 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 2.8% at $0.7112 and traded at $0.6953 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 43.8% from $0.6953 to $1.00 at 5:46 p.m. after the close, on 6.23 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:50 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.7314 |
| 6:50 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $0.7314 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.7112, down 2.8% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.6953, 4.9% below the high |
| 4:00 p.m. | SEC filing SCHEDULE 13G: |
| 4:00 p.m. | SEC filing SCHEDULE 13D: |
| 4:01 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.7315 |
| 4:34 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 3.17 million shares |
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
- $0.7315
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.7112
- Gap at the open
- −2.8%
- Pre-market high
- $0.7314 at 6:50 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.7314 at 6:50 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.6773
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.6953
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −4.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.00 at 5:46 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 22,463
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6.23 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.3×
- Float
- 3.17 million shares, from filings as of October 9, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 5.20 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest SEC filing before it (SCHEDULE 13D, 4:00 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 204 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 7 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 6.25 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 3.17 million shares: past it once at 4:34 p.m.
- Other days WBUY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 13, 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 WBUY 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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