Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on November 2, 2026
BLZE, November 2: an 8-K and an after-hours run to $10.44
BLZE barely moved in the regular session after an 8-K, then ran to $10.44 after the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 4:05 p.m. Before the bell it reached $7.77, on 4K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $7.64.
The close
It closed at $7.42, near its high. After the close it ran to $10.44 by 5:49 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened up 0.7% at $7.64 and traded at $7.42 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 40.8% from $7.42 to $10.44 at 5:49 p.m. after the close, on 983,316 shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:09 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.77 |
| 5:09 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.77 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.64, up 0.7% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.42, 4.6% below the high |
| 4:05 p.m. | News (Business Wire): Backblaze Announces Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results |
| 4:05 p.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K |
| 4:06 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $7.59 |
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
- $7.59
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.64
- Gap at the open
- +0.7%
- Pre-market high
- $7.77 at 5:09 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.77 at 5:09 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.68
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $7.42
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −2.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $10.44 at 5:49 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.47 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 983,316
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.2×
- Float
- 58.81 million shares, from filings as of November 2, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 61.90 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4,083 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 84,829 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 3.36 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
- Other days BLZE met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on November 3, 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 BLZE 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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