Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 26, 2026
EAF, October 26: news and $11.51
EAF opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $11.51 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 2:15 p.m. the day before. Before the bell it reached $8.95, on 13K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $8.76. It ran to $11.51 by 1:00 p.m.
The close
It closed at $10.68, 7% 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 2.9% at $8.76, then ran from the open to the high of $11.51 in 210 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Oct 25, 2:15 p.m. | News (The Motley Fool): GrafTech: 2 Key Takeaways for Long-Term Investors |
| 5:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, $8.95 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.76, up 2.9% from the previous close |
| 9:43 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $8.51 |
| 1:00 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $11.51 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $10.68, 7.2% 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
- $8.51
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.76
- Gap at the open
- +2.9%
- Pre-market high
- $8.95 at 5:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $11.51 at 1:00 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.40
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $10.68
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +25.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $10.78 at 5:49 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.10 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 79,057
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.5×
- Float
- 26.58 million shares, from filings as of October 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 26.90 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 19 hours 27 minutes after the latest news item before it (The Motley Fool, Oct 25, 2:15 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 12,502 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 133,397 in the first 30 minutes (11%), and 1.03 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (88%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day EAF met the small-cap rule.
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 EAF 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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