Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 6, 2026
AEVA, August 6: news, one halt, and $28.40
AEVA opened up 30% after news, ran to $28.40 through one halt, then gave back most of the run by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:50 a.m. Before the bell it reached $26.52, on 270K shares.
The open
It opened up 30%, at $25.53. It ran to $28.40 by 10:54 a.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 9:30 a.m.
The close
It closed at $25.27, 11% under its high.
What to take from it: The high came early. Most of the run was gone by the close, so the move was in the morning, not the hold.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 30.2% to $25.53 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $28.40 in 84 minutes through a halt, then gave back 109% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $25.27, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 5, 4:07 p.m. | News (Business Wire): Aeva Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results |
| Aug 5, 9:37 p.m. | News (Zacks Investment Research): Aeva Technologies, Inc. (AEVA) Reports Q2 Loss, Beats Revenue Estimates |
| 4:50 a.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): Aeva Technologies, Inc. (AEVA) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript |
| 6:39 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $19.61 |
| 8:54 a.m. | Pre-market high, $26.52 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $25.53, up 30.2% from the previous close |
| 10:54 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $28.40 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $25.27, 11.0% 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
- $19.61
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $25.53
- Gap at the open
- +30.2%
- Pre-market high
- $26.52 at 8:54 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $28.40 at 10:54 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $22.70
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $25.27
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +28.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $25.26 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.54 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 223,236
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.0×
- Float
- 39.34 million shares, from filings as of August 6, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 67.54 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 48 minutes after the latest news item before it (Seeking Alpha, 4:50 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 269,610 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (6%), 834,168 in the first 30 minutes (18%), and 3.65 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (77%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day AEVA met the small-cap rule.
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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | 9:35 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 10.1% | $23.25, up 1.0% | down 1.7% | 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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