Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 6, 2026
HNST on August 6, 2026: why it ran
On August 6, 2026, HNST opened up 27.0% from the previous close of 3.85 and reached 5.84 at 9:49 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 3.85
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 4.89
- Gap at the open
- up 27.0%
- Pre-market high
- 4.97 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.84 at 9:49 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.33
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5.45 at 4:14 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 5.42
- Volume
- 10.74 million
- Relative volume
- 15.0x
- Float
- 97.21 million shares, from filings as of August 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 107.28 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for HNST published between the previous session's close and the first minute HNST traded 20% above it, at 4:43 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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The Honest Company, Inc. (HNST) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
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Honest Q2 Earnings Call Highlights
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Honest (HNST) Q2 Earnings and Revenues Beat Estimates
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 27.0% to 4.89 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 5.84 in 19 minutes, then gave back 44% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 5.42.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 5, 9:37 p.m. | News (Zacks Investment Research): Honest (HNST) Q2 Earnings and Revenues Beat Estimates |
| Aug 5, 10:04 p.m. | News (MarketBeat): Honest Q2 Earnings Call Highlights |
| 3:10 a.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): The Honest Company, Inc. (HNST) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript |
| 4:43 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.85 |
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, 4.97 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 4.89, up 27.0% from the previous close |
| 9:49 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 5.84 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 5.42, 7.2% below the high |
The shape is a fixed rule, not a judgement: gapped 10% or more at the open, ran 10% or more from the open to the high, and faded if it gave back 30% or more of that move by the close.
The day in numbers
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 32 minutes after the latest news item before it (Seeking Alpha, 3:10 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 324,448 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (3%), 3.00 million in the first 30 minutes (28%), and 7.41 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (69%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day HNST met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for HNST that day.
On this date the LULD plan ran under Amendment 18, in force from February 24, 2020: no band doubling at the open, and the closing doubling only for Tier 1 stocks and Tier 2 stocks whose previous close was at or below three dollars. See LULD halts or work out a band with the LULD calculator.
Trade this day
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