Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
AIOS, August 27: a run to $19.00
AIOS opened near its previous close, then ran to $19.00 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $14.25, on 100 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $14.52. It ran to $19.00 by 2:57 p.m.
The close
It closed at $16.54, 13% 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 4.1% at $14.52, then ran from the open to the high of $19.00 in 327 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:44 a.m. | Pre-market high, $14.25 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $14.52, up 4.1% from the previous close |
| 1:56 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $13.95 |
| 2:57 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $19.00 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $16.54, 12.9% 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
- $13.95
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $14.52
- Gap at the open
- +4.1%
- Pre-market high
- $14.25 at 6:44 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $19.00 at 2:57 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $13.50
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $16.54
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +18.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $17.50 at 4:35 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 207,284
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 14,629
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 9.2×
- Float
- 2.18 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.25 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 100 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 3,212 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 218,601 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day AIOS met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. 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 AIOS 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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