Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 11, 2026
QMCO on August 11, 2026: why it ran
On August 11, 2026, QMCO opened up 23.8% from the previous close of 11.78 and reached 19.60 at 3:23 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 11.78
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 14.58
- Gap at the open
- up 23.8%
- Pre-market high
- 15.00 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 19.60 at 3:23 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 13.17
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 20.00 at 4:31 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 19.38
- Volume
- 7.79 million
- Relative volume
- 13.9x
- Float
- 22.11 million shares, from filings as of August 11, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 39.41 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for QMCO published between the previous session's close and the first minute QMCO traded 20% above it, at 9:08 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Quantum Corporation (QMCO) Q1 2027 Earnings Call Transcript
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Quantum Q1 Earnings Call Highlights
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Quantum Corp. (QMCO) Surpasses Q1 Earnings and Revenue Estimates
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Gap and go. It gapped up 23.8% to 14.58 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 19.60 in 353 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 4% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 10, 6:56 p.m. | News (Zacks Investment Research): Quantum Corp. (QMCO) Surpasses Q1 Earnings and Revenue Estimates |
| Aug 10, 9:05 p.m. | News (MarketBeat): Quantum Q1 Earnings Call Highlights |
| 6:58 a.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): Quantum Corporation (QMCO) Q1 2027 Earnings Call Transcript |
| 9:08 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 11.78 |
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, 15.00 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 14.58, up 23.8% from the previous close |
| 3:23 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 19.60 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 19.38, 1.1% 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 2 hours 9 minutes after the latest news item before it (Seeking Alpha, 6:58 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 100,325 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 1.71 million in the first 30 minutes (22%), and 5.98 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (77%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day QMCO met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for QMCO 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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