IVF on August 17, 2026: why it ran

The day, step by step

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: pre-market
• News: earnings
• Float traded 22x
• Bid wall broke
• Lower high
• Faded to the close

Pre-market: the float traded by 4:31 a.m.

On August 14, IVF closed at $0.97. It traded 28,948 shares that day. The float is 2.51 million shares.

The first bar on the 17th, at 4:00 a.m., traded between $0.99 and $1.02. That $0.99 was the low so far. Until 4:20 a.m. there were just scattered small trades, between $1.04 and $1.13.

Then at 4:21 a.m. volume jumped. From $1.02 at 4:22 a.m. it ran to $2.00 at 4:24 a.m., nearly double. By 4:31 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float.

It did not go straight up. It fell to $1.56 at 4:25 a.m., rebounded to $2.13 at 4:28 a.m., then dropped to $1.63 at 4:31 a.m. After that it pushed to $2.24 at 4:35 a.m.

The bigger run started at 4:44 a.m. at $1.94 and reached $3.06 at 4:51 a.m. It touched $3.05 again at 4:53 a.m., then slid for 20 minutes to $2.22 at 5:14 a.m. A second bounce reached $2.74 at 5:19 a.m. and faded to $1.93 at 5:44 a.m.

From $2.00 at 6:01 a.m. it climbed in steps, reaching $2.63 at 6:29 a.m.

7:00 a.m.: the high of the day

At 6:59 a.m. it was $2.64. At 7:00:05 one buy order of 106,997 shares went through the book, from $2.87 to $3.00 across 14 price levels. The 7:00 candle hit $3.12, the high so far, on over a million shares. Within two minutes it was back at $2.54. 34.37 million shares had traded before the bell.

By 7:14 a.m. the stock had traded ten times its float. At 7:02 a.m. an ask wall appeared at $3.00.

It came back once more. At 7:33 a.m. it pushed to $2.95, a lower high under the $3.12 top. Then it drifted down to $2.30 at 8:12 a.m.

The bid wall at $2.39

At 8:30 a.m. GlobeNewsWire ran this headline: “INVO Fertility Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results Highlighting Revenue Growth and Clinic Platform Profitability.” The stock was at $2.51 at the start of that minute. At 8:35 a.m. an 8-K was filed.

From 8:42 a.m., a bid wall built at exactly $2.39. The bid grew to 77,172 shares at 9:04 a.m., about 3% of the float. It sat just under the price for over 20 minutes. The stock traded between $2.39 and $2.59 in that time.

At 9:05:12 the first trade printed at $2.39. In 9.7 seconds, 42,328 shares traded at exactly $2.39 and the wall was gone. It wasn't pulled. Sellers hit it. A sell order of 53,168 shares went through $2.39 down to $2.36. The 9:05 minute bottomed at $2.33.

The stock then slid to $2.24 by 9:21 a.m. and was $2.26 at 9:29.

The open and the morning fade

It opened at $2.26, up 133% from the previous close. A 30,314-share print went through at $2.26 at 9:30:00.

It ran for ten minutes. From $2.24 at 9:32 it reached $2.78 at 9:36, and $2.80 at 9:39, the high since the open. That was well under the $3.00 ask wall from 7:02, which grew to about 99,900 shares by 10:06 a.m., 4.0% of the float. A buy order of 55,751 shares went through $2.74 to $2.77 at 9:39:19. By 9:41 it was down to $2.26.

From 9:42 until 10:13 it traded between $2.33 and $2.65. Then at 10:14 it fell to $2.13 on 566,619 shares. At 10:14:15 a sell order of 82,356 shares went through 16 price levels, from $2.28 down to $2.13.

A new bid wall formed at $2.15. It grew to 133,442 shares by 10:25 a.m., 5.3% of the float. It was pulled at 10:42:53 a.m. The price stayed between $2.18 and $2.32 from 10:26 to 10:42. At 10:59:56 a sell order of 69,318 shares went through $2.20 to $2.13.

At 11:02:56 a sell order of 68,040 shares went through $2.02 down to $1.95. 29,181 shares traded at exactly $2.00 in that one second and the wall was gone. The minute closed at $2.01. For the next two hours the stock traded between $1.97 and $2.20.

The afternoon

At 12:26 p.m. a buy order of 132,552 shares went through $2.05 to $2.16, and the minute traded 289,450 shares. It pushed to $2.20 at 12:33 p.m., then faded back to $2.03 by 12:47 p.m.

At 1:06 p.m. it dropped to $1.78. A sell order of 80,744 shares went through $1.95 to $1.80 across 16 levels. At 1:30 p.m. a bid wall of about 141,900 shares appeared at $1.65, 5.7% of the float. It was pulled at 1:32 p.m.

At 2:13 p.m. an ask wall appeared at $2.02. It grew to 143,514 shares by 2:14 p.m., 5.7% of the float, while the stock traded near $1.85. It was pulled at 2:23 p.m., and the stock did not trade at $2.02 again before the close.

The stock fell to $1.41 at 3:21 p.m., the low of the regular session. At 3:30 p.m. Benzinga ran: “INVO Fertility Stock Surges Following Q2 Earnings Beat.” The stock was at $1.47 at the start of that minute. It closed at $1.52, 51% below the $3.12 high.

For the day to the close, 55.03 million shares traded: the float changed hands about 22 times, at about 1,960 times its normal volume. 34.37 million of that was pre-market and 20.66 million was the regular session.

After hours

After hours it ran from $1.40 at 4:09 p.m. to $2.21 at 5:15 p.m., up 58%. Then it faded, to $1.85 by 5:22 p.m. and $1.73 at 7:59 p.m. About 3.6 million shares traded after hours.

What to take from it

• The $2.39 and $2.00 bid walls both broke. The $2.39 wall was 3% of the float and sellers still ate it in under ten seconds. The $2.00 wall went the same way.
• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $3.12 at 7:00 a.m., then $2.95 at 7:33 a.m.
• The float traded over by 4:31 a.m. By then more shares had changed hands than the float holds. By the close the stock was 51% below its high.

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