Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 7, 2026
AWX, August 7: news and an after-hours run to $3.56
AWX barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $3.56 after the close.
News via Stock News API
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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