Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 21, 2026
SDOT on August 21, 2026: why it ran
On August 21, 2026, SDOT opened down 2.4% from the previous close of 8.44 and reached 19.95 at 11:20 a.m. ET. The exchange halted it 3 times.
- Previous close
- 8.44
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 8.24
- Gap at the open
- down 2.4%
- Pre-market high
- 8.74 at 4:53 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 19.95 at 11:20 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 8.20
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 16.39 at 4:02 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 13.29
- Volume
- 8.02 million
- Relative volume
- 100.0x
- Float
- 1.29 million shares, from filings as of August 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.32 million
Replay SDOT's day
It starts at 10:14 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:17 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The day, step by step
- Small cap
- Momentum
- Main move: the morning
- Catalyst: news (after the move)
- Round-number test
- Halt run
- Halted three times
- Faded into the close
Pre-market: quiet, then a dip
The previous close was $8.44. The first trade of the 21st was $8.50 at 4:00 a.m. The pre-market high was $8.74 at 4:53 a.m. Only 6,354 shares traded before the bell, so very little happened.
At 7:00 a.m. it dipped to $8.24. It opened at $8.24, down 2%, and touched $8.20 in the first minute. That was the low so far.
The climb toward $10
For the first few minutes it sat around $8.20 to $8.30. At 9:39 it started to climb, and by 9:45 it was at $9.07. Volume picked up too: 7,398 shares traded in the 9:49 minute.
Stop It's 9:52. SDOT is at $9.90, up from the $8.20 low at the open. $10.00 is right above, and it has not traded there today. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 9:52 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 9:49 a.m. ET.
At 9:52 it traded through $10.00 for the first time today. At 9:53:42 it was halted (a volatility pause) with the last trade at $10.65.
Three halts
It reopened at 10:03:42 at $11.71, 10% above where it stopped. The first trade was a single print of 20,220 shares. It ran to $12.77 in the 10:04 minute.
At 10:21:10 it was halted again, with the last trade at $13.35. It reopened at 10:26:10 at $13.76, 3% above the stop, on a 24,899-share print. By 10:30 more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (1.29 million). It reached $15.62 in the 10:32 minute.
At 10:41:00 it was halted a third time, with the last trade at $17.31. This time it reopened lower. At 10:46:00 it came back at $16.89, 2% below where it stopped, on a 30,434-share print. In that first minute it traded as low as $15.25. The high of the run so far was $17.94 at 10:47.
Back above $18
After the halts it chopped between about $15 and $17. At 11:14 a buyer swept 19,126 shares through $17.49 to $17.80, and a second buy of 40,645 shares went from $17.79 to $18.56 one second later. By 11:16 it was at $18.93. Then it paused around $18.30 to $18.60.
Stop It's 11:20. SDOT is at $18.30. The high so far today is $18.93, set at 11:16, and $20.00 is the next round number. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, time and sales and chart stop at 11:20 a.m. ET for your call, then show what happened. The clip starts at 11:17 a.m. ET.
At 11:20:31 a buy order of 29,267 shares went through $18.34 to $19.18 across 61 price levels. The high of the day printed at $19.95 in the 11:20 minute. Within three minutes it was back at $17.50.
At 11:23:48, after the high, an ask wall showed up at $20.00. It peaked at 24,090 shares at 11:26:42, 1.9% of the float.
The fade
It slid to $15.22 by 11:40 and was near $14.17 at noon. At 12:58 it pushed to $14.93, well under the $19.95 top.
At 1:19 p.m. Benzinga ran: “Sadot Group Stock Soars Friday: What's Driving the Action?” The stock was trading around $13.85 at that minute. The headline came about two hours after the high.
At 1:39 p.m. it dropped to $12.66, and $12.50 at 1:47 p.m. was the low after the top. At 3:27 a 15,160-share print at $14.02 hit the ask and it bounced to $14.79 by 3:29. It faded again and closed at $13.29, 33% below the high.
Through the close, 7.24 million shares traded: the float changed hands about 5.6 times, at about 100 times its normal volume.
After hours
Right after the close it jumped. By 4:02 p.m. it had reached $16.39, higher than any regular-session price after 11:39 a.m. By 5:00 p.m. it was around $14.60. At 5:00 p.m. the company filed an 8-K (a current report). After hours volume was 772,435 shares.
What to take from it
- The first halt reopen had the thinnest book measured. At 10:03:43 the screen said $11.89 with 11 shares there, and a 5,000-share buy averaged $12.71. At the second reopen (10:26:11) the same order cost only $110 more than the screen.
- A halt can reopen higher or lower than it stopped. The first two reopened above ($10.65 to $11.71, $13.35 to $13.76). The third reopened below ($17.31 to $16.89).
- After the top, the bounces stayed well below it. $19.95 at 11:20 a.m., then $14.93 at 12:58 p.m. It closed at $13.29, 33% below the high.
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for SDOT published between the previous session's close and the first minute SDOT traded 20% above it, at 9:52 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
No news found before the move.
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened down 2.4% at 8.24, then ran from the open to the high of 19.95 in 110 minutes through 3 halts.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 4:53 a.m. | Pre-market high, 8.74 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 8.24, down 2.4% from the previous close | |
| 9:52 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 8.44 | |
| 9:53 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:03 a.m. | |
| 10:21 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:26 a.m. | |
| 10:30 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.29 million shares | |
| 10:41 a.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 10:46 a.m. | |
| 11:20 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 19.95 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 13.29, 33.4% 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
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6,354 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 44,939 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 7.97 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.29 million shares: past it once at 10:30 a.m., twice at 10:52 a.m., three times at 11:15 a.m.
- The halt at 9:53 a.m.: up 13.7% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 11.71, up 10.0% from the last trade before it, then up 5.8% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 10:21 a.m.: up 15.1% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 13.76, up 3.1% from the last trade before it, then up 4.4% over the next 5 minutes.
- The halt at 10:41 a.m.: up 10.3% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 16.89, down 2.4% from the last trade before it, then down 4.7% over the next 5 minutes.
- Other days SDOT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 1, 2026.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:53 a.m. | 10:03 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:21 a.m. | 10:26 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 10:41 a.m. | 10:46 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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