Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 4, 2026
AOUT, September 4: news and $14.65
AOUT opened up 29% after news, ran to $14.65, and held most of the move into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 2:23 a.m. Before the bell it reached $12.99, on 95K shares.
The open
It opened up 29%, at $12.90. It ran to $14.65 by 1:20 p.m.
The close
It closed at $14.44, near its high.
What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and go. It gapped up 28.9% to $12.90 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $14.65 in 230 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 12% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Sep 3, 6:41 p.m. | News (Zacks Investment Research): American Outdoor Brands, Inc. (AOUT) Q1 Earnings and Revenues Beat Estimates |
| Sep 3, 8:59 p.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): American Outdoor Brands, Inc. (AOUT) Q1 2027 Earnings Call Transcript |
| 2:23 a.m. | News (Benzinga): Lululemon, Docusign And 3 Stocks To Watch Heading Into Friday |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $10.01 |
| 4:07 a.m. | Pre-market high, $12.99 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $12.90, up 28.9% from the previous close |
| 1:20 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $14.65 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $14.44, 1.4% 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
- $10.01
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $12.90
- Gap at the open
- +28.9%
- Pre-market high
- $12.99 at 4:07 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $14.65 at 1:20 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $12.20
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $14.44
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +44.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $15.00 at 5:55 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.89 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 52,449
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 59.8×
- Float
- 12.62 million shares, from filings as of September 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 12.62 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 36 minutes after the latest news item before it (Benzinga, 2:23 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 95,434 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (5%), 588,803 in the first 30 minutes (30%), and 1.26 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (65%).
- Other days AOUT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 3, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 AOUT 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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