Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 21, 2026
PDSB, October 21: a run to $1.30
PDSB opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.30 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $0.9946, on 40K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.9982. It ran to $1.30 by 12:43 p.m.
The close
It closed at $1.22, 6% under 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 3.9% at $0.9982, then ran from the open to the high of $1.30 in 193 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:13 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.9946 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.9982, up 3.9% from the previous close |
| 10:22 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.9605 |
| 12:43 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.30 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.22, 6.2% 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
- $0.9605
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.9982
- Gap at the open
- +3.9%
- Pre-market high
- $0.9946 at 8:13 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.30 at 12:43 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.9568
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.22
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +27.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.24 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.79 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 221,673
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 1.3×
- Float
- 90.07 million shares, from filings as of October 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 105.01 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 40,461 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 440,764 in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 3.53 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (88%).
- Other days PDSB met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 27, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, 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 PDSB 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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