Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 28, 2026
SWVL, August 28: a run to $3.15
SWVL opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.15 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.55, on 22K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.29. It ran to $3.15 by 2:58 p.m.
The close
It closed at $3.13, 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 up 3.6% at $2.29, then ran from the open to the high of $3.15 in 328 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:52 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.55 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.29, up 3.6% from the previous close |
| 9:40 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.21 |
| 2:58 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.15 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.13, 0.5% 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
- $2.21
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.29
- Gap at the open
- +3.6%
- Pre-market high
- $2.55 at 5:52 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.15 at 2:58 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.20
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.13
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +41.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.18 at 4:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.38 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 99,755
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.7×
- Float
- 16.04 million shares, from filings as of August 28, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 20.68 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 22,339 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 184,286 in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 1.27 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (86%).
- Other days SWVL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 25, 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 SWVL 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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