Recaps · September 28, 2026

EGG, September 28: three halts, $6.22, and a $730 fill

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: the morning
• No news
• Halt run
• Halted three times
• Faded into the close

Float

8.10 million shares

Volume

2.39 million shares

Previous close

$2.68

Open

$2.78 (up 3.7%)

High

$6.22 at 10:41 a.m.

Halts

3 (10:25 a.m. and 10:35 a.m. and 10:43 a.m.)

Close

$4.22

Pre-market: almost nothing

The previous close was $2.68. The prior day traded just 2,057 shares.

The pre-market high was $2.86 at 4:00 a.m. Only 222 shares traded before the bell. There was no news in the data for the day.

A quiet open, then the first push

It opened at $2.78, up 4% from the previous close. Then it barely traded. At 9:40 a.m. a single minute printed $2.81 on 2 shares.

The move started at 10:06 a.m. From $2.92 it went to $3.51 at 10:08 a.m., on more than 1,000 shares a minute in the 10:07 and 10:08 minutes. It then pulled back, trading between about $2.99 and $3.29 through 10:14 a.m.

Three halts and the top

At 10:25 a.m. the minute ran from $3.60 to $4.32. At 10:25 a.m. it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $4.32. It reopened at 10:35 a.m. at $4.19, 3% below where it stopped.

The second halt came at 10:35 a.m. after a run from $4.19 to as high as $5.18. It was halted with the last trade at $5.17. It reopened at 10:40 a.m. at $5.37, 4% above where it stopped.

The 10:41 a.m. minute was the biggest of the day: 227,182 shares. At 10:41:05 one sweep bought 28,197 shares from $5.68 to $5.70 across 3 levels. The stock hit $6.22, the high of the day, up 132% from the previous close. The same minute also traded down to $4.68 and closed at $5.20.

At 10:43 a.m. it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $4.20. It reopened at 10:48 a.m. at $4.20.

The flush and the bounce

After the third reopen it fell to $3.19 at 10:53 a.m., down 49% from $6.22. Then it chopped between about $3.35 and $3.76 from 10:54 to 11:06 a.m.

At 11:08 a.m. it pushed to $4.63. A sell sweep of 19,354 shares ran from $4.63 to $4.38 across 15 levels at 11:08:34. By 11:13 a.m. the low was $3.68, down 21% from $4.63.

The rest of the day

It pushed back up through late morning, to $5.00 at 11:52 a.m. At 12:13 p.m. it pushed to $5.04, a lower high under the $6.22 top.

From there it faded: $4.03 at 12:33 p.m., then a slow range between about $4.00 and $4.55. It was $4.01 at 3:38 p.m. and $4.22 at the end of the 3:59 p.m. minute. Volume dried up after about 12:30 p.m., with many minutes under 1,000 shares.

By the close, 2.27 million shares had traded in the regular session, about 28% of the float of 8.1 million shares, at roughly 450 times normal volume. After hours it traded another 120,420 shares and reached $5.14 by 7:56 p.m.

What to take from it

• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $6.22 at 10:41 a.m., then $5.04 at 12:13 p.m.
• Reopens are thin. At the 10:41 and 10:48 reopens, a 5,000-share buy cost $730 and $1,371 more than the screen showed.
• Most of the move was gone by the close. It closed at $4.22, 32% below the $6.22 high.