Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 1, 2026
PXS, September 1: news and a gap that held
PXS opened up 11% after news and held near that level into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:35 a.m. Before the bell it reached $6.19, on 69K shares.
The open
It opened up 11%, at $5.94.
The close
It closed at $6.18, near its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 10.8% to $5.94 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $6.18 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 31, 4:15 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Pyxis Tankers Announces Financial Results for the Three & Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 |
| 2:23 a.m. | News (Benzinga): Medtronic, Dell and 3 Stocks to Watch Heading Into Tuesday |
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $6.19 |
| 4:35 a.m. | News (Benzinga): Why Pyxis Tankers Shares Are Trading Higher By Over 11%; Here Are 20 Stocks Moving Premarket |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.94, up 10.8% from the previous close |
| 11:51 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.36 |
| 11:51 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.44 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.18, 4.0% 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
- $5.36
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.94
- Gap at the open
- +10.8%
- Pre-market high
- $6.19 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.44 at 11:51 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.75
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.18
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +15.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.23 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 537,332
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 25,558
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 14.6×
- Float
- 4.18 million shares, from filings as of September 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.24 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 7 hours 15 minutes after the latest news item before it (Benzinga, 4:35 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 68,844 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (12%), 163,524 in the first 30 minutes (29%), and 330,522 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (59%).
- Other days PXS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 31, 2026.
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 PXS 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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