Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 20, 2026
AEYE, October 20: an 8-K and $8.21
AEYE opened near its previous close after an 8-K, then ran to $8.21 during the session.
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What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 8:31 a.m. Before the bell it reached $7.68, on 5K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $7.22. It ran to $8.21 by 12:57 p.m.
The close
It closed at $8.19, near its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 3.7% at $7.22, then ran from the open to the high of $8.21 in 207 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): AudioEye Sets Third Quarter 2026 Earnings Call |
| 8:31 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): AudioEye Announces $15 million Stock Repurchase Program |
| 8:31 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: FORM 8-K |
| 8:34 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.68 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.22, up 3.7% from the previous close |
| 12:57 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.21 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.19, 0.2% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $6.96
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.22
- Gap at the open
- +3.7%
- Pre-market high
- $7.68 at 8:34 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.21 at 12:57 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.05
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.19
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +17.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.19 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 134,703
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4,754
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.5×
- Float
- 9.00 million shares, from filings as of October 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 12.57 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 5,442 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (4%), 5,396 in the first 30 minutes (4%), and 128,619 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (92%).
- Other days AEYE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 28, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for AEYE that day.
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
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