Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
RCEL, August 7: news and $8.07
RCEL opened up 26% after news, ran to $8.07, and held most of the move into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 2:54 a.m. Before the bell it reached $6.04, on 77K shares.
The open
It opened up 26%, at $5.98. It ran to $8.07 by 2:35 p.m.
The close
It closed at $7.79, near its high.
What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and go. It gapped up 25.9% to $5.98 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $8.07 in 305 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 14% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:02 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): AVITA Medical Reports Second Quarter Results, Raises 2026 Revenue Guidance, and Expects Fourth Quarter Cash Flow Breakeven |
| 2:54 a.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): AVITA Medical, Inc. (RCEL) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript |
| 5:32 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.75 |
| 6:16 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.04 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.98, up 25.9% from the previous close |
| 2:35 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.07 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.79, 3.5% 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
- $4.75
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.98
- Gap at the open
- +25.9%
- Pre-market high
- $6.04 at 6:16 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.07 at 2:35 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.30
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $7.79
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +63.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.00 at 7:31 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.45 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 76,745
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 27.3×
- Float
- 30.38 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 30.93 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 hours 37 minutes after the latest news item before it (Seeking Alpha, 2:54 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 76,728 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 449,163 in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 3.00 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (85%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day RCEL met the small-cap rule.
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 RCEL 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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