Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 5, 2026
XOS, August 5: a gap that held
XOS opened up 14% and held near that level into the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.13, on 215K shares.
The open
It opened up 14%, at $3.00.
The close
It closed at $2.93, 6% under 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 14.1% to $3.00 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $2.93 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:10 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.13 |
| 9:10 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.13 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.00, up 14.1% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.93, 6.4% below the high |
| 6:25 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.63 |
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
- $2.63
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.00
- Gap at the open
- +14.1%
- Pre-market high
- $3.13 at 9:10 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.13 at 9:10 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.69
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.93
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +11.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.41 at 7:05 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 686,095
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 199,246
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 13.9×
- Float
- 8.10 million shares, from filings as of August 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.72 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 214,819 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (24%), 108,167 in the first 30 minutes (12%), and 562,355 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (64%).
- Other days XOS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on August 26, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers. 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 XOS 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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