Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 6, 2026
DSY, August 6: an after-hours run to $8.21
DSY barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $8.21 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.38, on 317 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.33.
The close
It closed at $3.40, near its high. After the close it ran to $8.21 by 4:40 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 down 3.8% at $3.33 and traded at $3.40 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 141.5% from $3.40 to $8.21 at 4:40 p.m. after the close, on 4.95 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:05 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.38 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.33, down 3.8% from the previous close |
| 3:01 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.45 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.40, 1.4% below the high |
| 4:04 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.46 |
| 4:21 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.25 million shares |
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
- $3.46
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.33
- Gap at the open
- −3.8%
- Pre-market high
- $3.38 at 4:05 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.45 at 3:01 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.31
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.40
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −1.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.21 at 4:40 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1,288
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.95 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 345.0×
- Float
- 1.25 million shares, from filings as of August 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 4.75 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 317 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 16 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 4.95 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.25 million shares: past it once at 4:21 p.m., twice at 4:38 p.m., three times at 4:59 p.m.
- Other days DSY met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 7, 2026.
- The next session, August 7, 2026, it was up 34.2% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 DSY 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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