Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
XAIR, August 27: one halt and $5.47
XAIR opened near its previous close, then ran to $5.47 through one halt during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $4.96, on 1K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $4.94. It ran to $5.47 by 3:56 p.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 3:57 p.m.
The close
It closed at $5.47, 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 0.6% at $4.94, then ran from the open to the high of $5.47 in 386 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:17 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.96 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.94, down 0.6% from the previous close |
| 3:56 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.47 |
| 3:57 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.47, 0.0% below the high |
| 4:00 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.97 |
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
- $4.97
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.94
- Gap at the open
- −0.6%
- Pre-market high
- $4.96 at 7:17 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.47 at 3:56 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.99
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.47
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +10.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.95 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 80,250
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 628,587
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 20.5×
- Float
- 904,175 shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 984,407
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,185 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 15,254 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 692,398 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Other days XAIR met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 31, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:57 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 2 min 59 s | up 13.3% | $5.70, up 4.2% | down 3.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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