Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 4, 2026
APPS, August 4: an 8-K and an after-hours run to $12.54
APPS barely moved in the regular session after an 8-K, then ran to $12.54 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 $9.33, on 35K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $9.12.
The close
It closed at $9.50, near its high. After the close it ran to $12.54 by 7:05 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 1.3% at $9.12 and traded at $9.50 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 32.0% from $9.50 to $12.54 at 7:05 p.m. after the close, on 1.66 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $9.33 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $9.12, up 1.3% from the previous close |
| 12:55 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.73 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $9.50, 2.4% below the high |
| 4:05 p.m. | News (PRNewsWire): Digital Turbine Reports Strong Fiscal 2027 First Quarter Financial Results and Raises Full-Year Guidance |
| 4:05 p.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K |
| 4:17 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $9.00 |
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
- $9.00
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $9.12
- Gap at the open
- +1.3%
- Pre-market high
- $9.33 at 7:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.73 at 12:55 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.01
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $9.50
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +5.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $12.54 at 7:05 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.15 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.66 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.3×
- Float
- 115.98 million shares, from filings as of August 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 120.94 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 11 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 4:05 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 34,951 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 435,057 in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 4.35 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (90%).
- Other days APPS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 5, 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 APPS 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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