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AWX, August 7: news and an after-hours run to $3.56

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AWX barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $3.56 after the close.

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News10-Q$3.56$2.584 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
AWX on August 7, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

Before the open

The news came first: news at 5:05 p.m.

The open

It opened near its previous close, at $2.55.

The close

It closed at $2.59, near its high. After the close it ran to $3.56 by 5:40 p.m.

What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.

The details

How it traded, step by step

After-hours run. It opened down 1.2% at $2.55 and traded at $2.59 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 37.5% from $2.59 to $3.56 at 5:40 p.m. after the close, on 848,511 shares traded after hours.

Time (ET)What happened
9:30 a.m.The open: $2.55, down 1.2% from the previous close
3:33 p.m.High of the day to the close, $2.60
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.59, 0.4% below the high
5:02 p.m.SEC filing 10-Q: FORM 10-Q
5:05 p.m.News (PRNewsWire): AVALON HOLDINGS CORPORATION ANNOUNCES SECOND QUARTER RESULTS
5:29 p.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.58

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
$2.58
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$2.55
Gap at the open
−1.2%
Pre-market high
not available
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$2.60 at 3:33 p.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$2.53
Close, 4 p.m.
$2.59
Change at 4 p.m.
+0.4%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$3.56 at 5:40 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
4,194
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
848,511
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
n/m
Float
3.09 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
Shares outstanding
3.29 million
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 24 minutes after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 5:05 p.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 540 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 852,165 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
  • Other days AWX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 10, 2026.
  • The next session, August 10, 2026, it gapped up 11.5% at 9:30 a.m.

On the day's lists: the after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the after-hours movers: 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 AWX 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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