Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 20, 2026
INO, October 20: news and an after-hours run to $1.41
INO barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $1.41 after the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:05 p.m. Before the bell it reached $1.02, on 21K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.9981.
The close
It closed at $1.01, near its high. After the close it ran to $1.41 by 4:11 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 0.2% at $0.9981 and traded at $1.01 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 38.9% from $1.01 to $1.41 at 4:11 p.m. after the close, on 4.56 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.02 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.9981, down 0.2% from the previous close |
| 11:03 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.05 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.01, 3.8% below the high |
| 4:05 p.m. | News (PRNewsWire): INOVIO Announces Favorable Judgment in Litigation with VGXI, Inc. and GeneOne Life Science |
| 4:06 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.00 |
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
- $1.00
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.9981
- Gap at the open
- −0.2%
- Pre-market high
- $1.02 at 4:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.05 at 11:03 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.9899
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.01
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +1.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.41 at 4:11 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.04 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.56 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.7×
- Float
- 102.23 million shares, from filings as of October 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 103.40 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 minute after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 20,611 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 111,780 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 5.47 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Other days INO met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on November 2, 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 INO 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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