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SUGP, August 20: news and $3.10

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SUGP opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $3.10 during the session.

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News$3.96$2.73$2.494 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
SUGP on August 20, 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 4:00 p.m. Before the bell it reached $2.72, on 44K shares.

The open

It opened near its previous close, at $2.64. It ran to $3.10 by 9:47 a.m.

The close

It closed at $2.77, 11% under its high.

What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.

The details

How it traded, step by step

Intraday run. It opened down 3.3% at $2.64, then ran from the open to the high of $3.10 in 17 minutes.

Time (ET)What happened
9:28 a.m.Pre-market high, $2.72
9:30 a.m.The open: $2.64, down 3.3% from the previous close
9:47 a.m.High of the day to the close, $3.10
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.77, 10.6% below the high
4:00 p.m.News (PRNewsWire): SU GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED REGAINS COMPLIANCE WITH NASDAQ MINIMUM BID PRICE REQUIREMENT
4:00 p.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.73
4:08 p.m.Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 701,604 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
$2.73
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$2.64
Gap at the open
−3.3%
Pre-market high
$2.72 at 9:28 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$3.10 at 9:47 a.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$2.49
Close, 4 p.m.
$2.77
Change at 4 p.m.
+1.5%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$3.96 at 7:35 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
238,396
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
4.59 million
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
22.2×
Float
701,604 shares, from filings as of August 20, 2026
Shares outstanding
892,954
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 4:00 p.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 44,004 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 43,097 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 4.74 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
  • Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 701,604 shares: past it once at 4:08 p.m., twice at 4:15 p.m., three times at 4:24 p.m.
  • Other days SUGP met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 13, 2026.
  • The next session, August 21, 2026, it gapped up 26.8% 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 SUGP 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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