Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
AWX, August 10: a pre-market spike to $3.25
AWX spiked to $3.25 before the open, then gave much of it back in the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.25, on 216K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.84.
The close
It closed at $2.76, 15% under its high.
What to take from it: The move happened before the bell. The regular session never got back to the pre-market high.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Pre-market spike. Before the open it spiked 25.0% from $2.60 to $3.25 at 4:00 a.m.. It opened up 9.2% at $2.84 and traded at $2.76 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.60 |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.25 |
| 4:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.25 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.84, up 9.2% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.76, 15.1% 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
- $2.60
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.84
- Gap at the open
- +9.2%
- Pre-market high
- $3.25 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.25 at 4:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.62
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.76
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +6.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.89 at 5:44 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 349,129
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 11,668
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.2×
- Float
- 3.09 million shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.90 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 215,897 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (60%), 36,910 in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 107,990 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (30%).
- Other days AWX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 7, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 AWX 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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