Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 4, 2026
CMTG, November 4: news and $1.95
CMTG opened up 38% after news, ran to $1.95, and held most of the move into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 5:00 p.m. the day before. Before the bell it reached $1.52, on 148K shares.
The open
It opened up 38%, at $1.53. It ran to $1.95 by 11:02 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.85, near its high.
What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and go. It gapped up 37.8% to $1.53 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.95 in 92 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 23% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Nov 3, 5:00 p.m. | News (Business Wire): Claros Mortgage Trust, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2026 Results |
| 7:43 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.11 |
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.52 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.53, up 37.8% from the previous close |
| 11:02 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.95 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.85, 4.9% 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
- $1.11
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.53
- Gap at the open
- +37.8%
- Pre-market high
- $1.52 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.95 at 11:02 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.25
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.85
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +67.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.95 at 4:48 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.26 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 353,162
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 24.2×
- Float
- 136.42 million shares, from filings as of November 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 141.09 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 14 hours 43 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, Nov 3, 5:00 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 148,027 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 1.38 million in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 8.09 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (84%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day CMTG met the small-cap rule.
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 CMTG 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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