Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 14, 2026
XPON, August 14: an after-hours run to $4.98
XPON barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $4.98 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.55, on 431 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.67.
The close
It closed at $3.69, near its high. After the close it ran to $4.98 by 4:26 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 0.3% at $3.67 and traded at $3.69 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 35.0% from $3.69 to $4.98 at 4:26 p.m. after the close, on 3.65 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:57 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.55 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.67, down 0.3% from the previous close |
| 9:30 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.71 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.69, 0.5% below the high |
| 4:03 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.68 |
| 4:13 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 962,335 shares |
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
- $3.68
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.67
- Gap at the open
- −0.3%
- Pre-market high
- $3.55 at 7:57 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.71 at 9:30 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.51
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.69
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +0.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.98 at 4:26 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1,624
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.65 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 286.4×
- Float
- 962,335 shares, from filings as of August 14, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 962,335
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 431 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 205 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 3.65 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 962,335 shares: past it once at 4:13 p.m., twice at 4:26 p.m., three times at 4:50 p.m.
- Other days XPON met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on August 28, 2026.
- The next session, August 17, 2026, it was up 21.7% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
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 XPON 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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