Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 3, 2026
XTND, November 3: news, one halt, and $2.17
XTND opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $2.17 through one halt during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 8:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.38, on 31K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.36. It ran to $2.17 by 11:17 a.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 11:22 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 11:22 a.m.: 7% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $1.46, 33% under 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 4.6% at $1.36, then ran from the open to the high of $2.17 in 107 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): XTEND AI Robotics, Inc. Completes Delivery Under $2.8 Million Defense Contract in Asia-Pacific |
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.38 |
| 9:31 a.m. | The open: $1.36, up 4.6% from the previous close |
| 11:13 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.30 |
| 11:17 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.17 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.46, 32.7% 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
- $1.30
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.36
- Gap at the open
- +4.6%
- Pre-market high
- $1.38 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.17 at 11:17 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.27
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.46
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +12.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.47 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.95 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 72,603
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 7.3×
- Float
- 197.73 million shares, from filings as of November 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 284.84 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 3 hours 13 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 8:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 30,725 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 159,487 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 9.83 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Other days XTND met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 26, 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:22 a.m. | 11:27 a.m. | 5 min 11 s | down 20.7% | $1.43, down 6.5% | up 10.1% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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