Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 25, 2026
AKAN, August 25: a run to $5.20
AKAN opened near its previous close, then ran to $5.20 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.79, on 7K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.66. It ran to $5.20 by 3:59 p.m.
The close
It closed at $4.99, near 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 1.2% at $3.66, then ran from the open to the high of $5.20 in 389 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:05 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.79 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.66, down 1.2% from the previous close |
| 3:43 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.71 |
| 3:59 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.20 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $4.99, 4.0% below the high |
| 4:11 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 540,841 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
- $3.71
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.66
- Gap at the open
- −1.2%
- Pre-market high
- $3.79 at 4:05 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.20 at 3:59 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.60
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.99
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +34.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.47 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 300,392
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 408,320
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.9×
- Float
- 540,841 shares, from filings as of August 25, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 785,655
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 6,705 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 5,600 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 696,407 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 540,841 shares: past it once at 4:11 p.m.
- Other days AKAN met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on September 22, 2026.
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 AKAN 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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