Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 20, 2026
SUGP, August 20: news and $3.10
SUGP opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $3.10 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:00 p.m. Before the bell it reached $2.72, on 44K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.64. It ran to $3.10 by 9:47 a.m.
The close
It closed at $2.77, 11% 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 down 3.3% at $2.64, then ran from the open to the high of $3.10 in 17 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.72 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.64, down 3.3% from the previous close |
| 9:47 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.10 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.77, 10.6% below the high |
| 4:00 p.m. | News (PRNewsWire): SU GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED REGAINS COMPLIANCE WITH NASDAQ MINIMUM BID PRICE REQUIREMENT |
| 4:00 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.73 |
| 4:08 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 701,604 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
- $2.73
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.64
- Gap at the open
- −3.3%
- Pre-market high
- $2.72 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.10 at 9:47 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.49
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.77
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +1.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.96 at 7:35 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 238,396
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.59 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 22.2×
- Float
- 701,604 shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 892,954
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 4:00 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 44,004 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 43,097 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 4.74 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 701,604 shares: past it once at 4:08 p.m., twice at 4:15 p.m., three times at 4:24 p.m.
- Other days SUGP met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 13, 2026.
- The next session, August 21, 2026, it gapped up 26.8% at 9:30 a.m.
On the day's lists: the after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the after-hours movers: 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 SUGP 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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