Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 22, 2026
STAK, October 22: results after the close and a $1.70 wall
STAK opened up 69% after news, ran to $1.86, then gave back most of the run by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Results after the bell
At 4:20 p.m. the day before, PRNewsWire ran “STAK Inc. Announces Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2026.” STAK had closed at $1.00. Pre-market volume reached 21M shares, twice the 10M float. It touched $1.91 at 9:04 a.m.
The $1.70 wall
Sellers had offered shares at $1.70 since 4:00 a.m. The wall peaked at 108K shares at 6:42 a.m.
Stop It's 9:08. STAK is at $1.65. It touched $1.91 at 9:04, and a big wall of shares has been offered at $1.70 since 4:00 a.m. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:05 a.m. and stop at 9:08 a.m. ET for your call.
Trades began at $1.70 at 9:08:16. In 12.7 seconds, 100K shares traded there and the wall was eaten. It opened at $1.69 and fell to $1.39 at 9:37.
Midday
Stop It's 11:50. STAK is at $1.63. Since the 9:30 open it has traded as low as $1.39 at 9:37, and the high was $1.91 at 9:04. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 11:47 a.m. and stop at 11:50 a.m. ET for your call.
It ran to $1.78 that minute. At 11:55:17 a wall at $1.80 was eaten, 42K shares in two seconds. It reached $1.87 at 11:59, under the $1.91 top, and was $1.75 in the last regular-session minute.
What to take from it: The second push stopped lower. $1.91 at 9:04, then $1.87 at 11:59, even after a wall was eaten on the way.
Replay STAK's day
It starts at 11:40 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 11:43 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 69.0% to $1.69 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.86 in 149 minutes, then gave back 66% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.75, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 4:20 p.m. | News (PRNewsWire): STAK Inc. Announces Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2026 | |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.00 | |
| 6:50 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 10.01 million shares | |
| 9:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.91 | |
| 9:04 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.91 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.69, up 69.0% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.75, 8.4% 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
- $1.00
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.69
- Gap at the open
- +69.0%
- Pre-market high
- $1.91 at 9:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.91 at 9:04 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.25
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.75
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +75.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.99 at 6:35 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 36.08 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.74 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 23.1×
- Float
- 10.01 million shares, from filings as of October 22, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 19.21 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 11 hours 40 minutes after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, Oct 21, 4:20 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 21.48 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (57%), 3.23 million in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 13.12 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (35%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 10.01 million shares: past it once at 6:50 a.m., twice at 9:08 a.m., three times at 11:53 a.m.
- Other days STAK met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on October 21, 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 STAK 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.
Trade this day
Replay STAK on October 22, 2026 in Hindsight Markets: the real tape, the order book and the halts, on a clock you control, and see where your orders would have filled.