Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 28, 2026
KDK, October 28: news and a gap that held
KDK opened up 15% after news and held near that level into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 9:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.33, on 629K shares.
The open
It opened up 15%, at $1.29.
The close
It closed at $1.30, near its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 15.2% to $1.29 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $1.30 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Kodiak AI and DTL Transport Reach Historic Agreement To Deploy 75 Driverless Trucks As Part of Commercial Driver-As-A-Service Rollout |
| 9:10 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.33 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.29, up 15.2% from the previous close |
| 10:28 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.12 |
| 10:30 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.36 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.30, 4.0% 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
- $1.12
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.29
- Gap at the open
- +15.2%
- Pre-market high
- $1.33 at 9:10 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.36 at 10:30 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.16
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.30
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +16.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.78 at 6:26 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.39 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.79 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 2.4×
- Float
- 138.43 million shares, from filings as of October 28, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 200.62 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 28 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 9:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 628,895 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (8%), 760,553 in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 6.78 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (83%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day KDK 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 KDK 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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