Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
VRCA on August 27, 2026: why it ran
On August 27, 2026, VRCA opened up 2.0% from the previous close of 4.91 and reached 5.70 at 2:30 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 4.91
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 5.01
- Gap at the open
- up 2.0%
- Pre-market high
- 5.09 at 9:27 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.70 at 2:30 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.40
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 5.14 at 4:08 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 5.00
- Volume
- 281,476
- Relative volume
- 6.7x
- Float
- 8.37 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 17.18 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for VRCA published between the previous session's close and the open, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Verrica Pharmaceuticals Announces Completion of Enrollment in First Pivotal Phase 3 Trial (COVE-2) Evaluating YCANTH® for the Treatment of Common Warts, with Topline Data Expected Q1 2027
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 2.0% at 5.01, then ran from the open to the high of 5.70 in 300 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Verrica Pharmaceuticals Announces Completion of Enrollment in First Pivotal Phase 3 Trial (COVE-2) Evaluating YCANTH® for the Treatment of Common Warts, with Topline Data Expected Q1 2027 |
| 9:27 a.m. | Pre-market high, 5.09 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 5.01, up 2.0% from the previous close |
| 2:30 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 5.70 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 5.00, 12.3% 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: 771 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 18,031 in the first 30 minutes (6%), and 262,674 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (93%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day VRCA met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for VRCA 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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