Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
SPAI, August 14: a morning headline, $6.25 in the session, $7.84 after hours
SPAI opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $6.25 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
Morning headline
The headline lifted it only briefly. News of 1,336% revenue growth hit at 8:03 a.m. It spiked to $5.74, then fell below the $4.48 previous close by 8:08.
The 10:00 push
At 10:00 it was $4.49 and climbing.
Stop It's 10:17. SPAI is at $4.91. It was $4.49 at 10:00, and last minute it traded as high as $5.07 before closing at $4.98. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:14 a.m. and stop at 10:17 a.m. ET for your call.
At 10:17:27 one order bought 11K shares up to $5.18. It topped at $5.25, then slid to $4.72 by 10:27.
Small steps up
Then it rose in small steps.
Stop It's 3:55. SPAI is at $6.16, up from $5.95 half an hour ago, with five minutes left in the regular session. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:52 p.m. and stop at 3:55 p.m. ET for your call.
It peaked at $6.25 that minute and closed at $6.20, 38% above the prior close.
After hours: $7.84
The biggest move came after the bell, with no new news after 4:10. It hit $7.84 at 4:34 p.m., then faded to about $6.21 by 7:59.
What to take from it: On SPAI the headline spike faded fast; the real gains came in slow steps and after hours.
Replay SPAI's day
It starts at 9:59 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:02 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 4.0% at $4.30, then ran from the open to the high of $6.25 in 385 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:03 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Safe Pro Reports Record 1,336% Revenue Growth in Q2 2026 Driven by Multiple Government Contracts for AI-Powered Threat Detection and Mapping | |
| 8:04 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.48 | |
| 8:05 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.74 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.30, down 4.0% from the previous close | |
| 3:55 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $6.25 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.20, 0.8% 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
- $4.48
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.30
- Gap at the open
- −4.0%
- Pre-market high
- $5.74 at 8:05 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.25 at 3:55 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.12
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.20
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +38.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.84 at 4:34 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.66 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.75 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 85.0×
- Float
- 11.25 million shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 20.62 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 8:03 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 801,276 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (23%), 45,995 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 2.57 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (75%).
- Other days SPAI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 7, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 SPAI 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.
Trade this day
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