Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 5, 2026
ASTC, August 5: a run to $12.82
ASTC opened near its previous close, then ran to $12.82 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $7.66, on 2K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $7.26. It ran to $12.82 by 1:42 p.m.
The close
It closed at $9.12, 29% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 0.3% at $7.26, then ran from the open to the high of $12.82 in 252 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:25 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.66 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.26, up 0.3% from the previous close |
| 11:38 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $7.24 |
| 1:42 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $12.82 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $9.12, 28.9% 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
- $7.24
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.26
- Gap at the open
- +0.3%
- Pre-market high
- $7.66 at 6:25 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $12.82 at 1:42 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.04
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $9.12
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +26.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $9.38 at 5:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.56 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 74,107
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 48.6×
- Float
- 1.69 million shares, from filings as of August 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.01 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,525 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,943 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 1.64 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day ASTC met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 ASTC 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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