Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 4, 2026
STEM, November 4: news and $3.28
STEM opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $3.28 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 $2.61, on 22K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.54. It ran to $3.28 by 10:18 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.86, 13% 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 7.2% at $2.54, then ran from the open to the high of $3.28 in 48 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:38 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.61 |
| 8:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Stem Reschedules Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Results Conference Call to Monday, November 16, 2026 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.54, up 7.2% from the previous close |
| 10:02 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.37 |
| 10:18 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.28 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.86, 12.8% 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
- $2.37
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.54
- Gap at the open
- +7.2%
- Pre-market high
- $2.61 at 4:38 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.28 at 10:18 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.41
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.86
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +20.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.95 at 5:41 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 792,039
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 16,408
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 9.5×
- Float
- 9.15 million shares, from filings as of November 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 9.63 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 hours 2 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 8:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 21,629 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (3%), 68,310 in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 718,508 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (89%).
- Other days STEM met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 25, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, 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 STEM 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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