Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
AKTX, August 26: a run to $9.80
AKTX opened near its previous close, then ran to $9.80 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $9.29, on 351 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $8.10. It ran to $9.80 by 10:55 a.m.
The close
It closed at $9.06, 8% 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 up 2.9% at $8.10, then ran from the open to the high of $9.80 in 85 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, $9.29 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.10, up 2.9% from the previous close |
| 10:53 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $7.87 |
| 10:55 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.80 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $9.06, 7.6% 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
- $7.87
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.10
- Gap at the open
- +2.9%
- Pre-market high
- $9.29 at 9:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.80 at 10:55 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.61
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $9.06
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +15.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $9.40 at 6:08 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 200,347
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2,932
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.2×
- Float
- 1.45 million shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 77.88 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 351 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 11,115 in the first 30 minutes (5%), and 191,813 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (94%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day AKTX met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 AKTX 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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