Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 30, 2026
WKHS, October 30: news and a gap that held
WKHS opened up 16% 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 4:01 p.m. the day before. Before the bell it reached $3.22, on 800K shares.
The open
It opened up 16%, at $2.95.
The close
It closed at $2.94, 9% under 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 15.7% to $2.95 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $2.94 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Oct 29, 4:01 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Workhorse Enters Modular AI Infrastructure Market Through Foundational TerraPod™ Partnership with UK-Based RHAELM |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.55 |
| 4:02 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.22 |
| 4:02 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.22 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.95, up 15.7% from the previous close |
| 11:23 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.72 million shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.94, 8.7% 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
- $2.55
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.95
- Gap at the open
- +15.7%
- Pre-market high
- $3.22 at 4:02 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.22 at 4:02 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.74
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.94
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +15.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.95 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.10 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 61,728
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 11.9×
- Float
- 1.72 million shares, from filings as of October 30, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.93 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 11 hours 59 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, Oct 29, 4:01 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 800,136 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (37%), 447,867 in the first 30 minutes (21%), and 912,637 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (42%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.72 million shares: past it once at 11:23 a.m.
- Other days WKHS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 29, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 WKHS 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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