Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
AIMD, August 3: a quiet $1.48 day, then $2.41 after hours
AIMD barely moved in the regular session after an 8-K, then ran to $2.41 after the close.
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What happened
A quiet morning
AIMD closed the prior day at $1.33 and barely traded before the bell. It opened at $1.36. After the first minute, most minutes had no trades.
Stop It's 10:23. AIMD is at $1.37. Since 9:56 it has traded between $1.36 and $1.37, and most minutes have no trades. Would you buy here?
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That minute traded 2,213 shares and ran to $1.42. It is a small number, but big for this stock. It kept climbing in small steps.
A thin top at $1.48
The regular-session high came at 11:06: $1.48 on a 100-share trade, up 11%. It closed at $1.45 on only 12K shares all session.
Earnings, a spike, a fade
The quarterly results came out at 4:30 p.m., and the stock woke up two hours later. In the 6:33 minute alone, 108K shares traded, nearly nine times the whole regular session. It peaked at $2.41 in the 6:38 minute. The spike did not hold. By 7:40 it touched $1.41, 41% below the high. After hours traded 1.86M shares.
What to take from it: On this quiet stock, the real move came hours after the close, and it faded almost as fast as it rose.
Replay AIMD's day
It starts at 10:56 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:59 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
After-hours run. It opened up 2.3% at $1.36 and traded at $1.47 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 63.9% from $1.47 to $2.41 at 6:38 p.m. after the close, on 1.86 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.33 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.36, up 2.3% from the previous close | |
| 11:06 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.48 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.47, 0.7% below the high | |
| 4:21 p.m. | SEC filing 10-Q: 10-Q | |
| 4:30 p.m. | News (Accesswire): Ainos Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results and Highlights Continued AI Nose Execution Across Industrial, Healthcare Infrastructure and Robotics Markets | |
| 5:20 p.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K | |
| 6:31 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.33 |
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
- $1.33
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.36
- Gap at the open
- +2.3%
- Pre-market high
- $1.33 at 7:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.48 at 11:06 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.33
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.47
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +10.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.41 at 6:38 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 12,164
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.86 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 138.9×
- Float
- 3.14 million shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.54 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 10 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 5:20 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 7 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,170 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.87 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days AIMD met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 24, 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 AIMD 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
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