Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on September 30, 2026
SOTK on September 30, 2026: why it ran
On September 30, 2026, SOTK opened up 10.6% from the previous close of 4.98 and reached 6.35 at 9:50 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 4.98
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 5.51
- Gap at the open
- up 10.6%
- Pre-market high
- 5.70 at 7:06 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.35 at 9:50 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.16
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6.10 at 5:37 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 5.95
- Volume
- 254,272
- Relative volume
- 5.9x
- Float
- 15.12 million shares, from filings as of September 30, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 15.72 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for SOTK published between the previous session's close and the first minute SOTK traded 20% above it, at 9:33 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Sono-Tek Announces Record $7.19 Million in Orders from Advanced Clean Energy Sector Customer
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 10.6% to 5.51 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 6.35 in 20 minutes, then gave back 48% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at 5.95.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Sono-Tek Announces Record $7.19 Million in Orders from Advanced Clean Energy Sector Customer |
| 7:06 a.m. | Pre-market high, 5.70 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 5.51, up 10.6% from the previous close |
| 9:33 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 4.98 |
| 9:50 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 6.35 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 5.95, 6.3% 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
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 hours 33 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 5,584 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 88,212 in the first 30 minutes (35%), and 160,476 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (63%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day SOTK met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for SOTK 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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