Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 21, 2026
ASPC, August 21: a run to $17.49
ASPC opened near its previous close, then ran to $12.67 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $17.49, on 287K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $11.31. It ran to $12.67 by 3:29 p.m.
The close
It closed at $12.47, 29% 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 up 3.4% at $11.31, then ran from the open to the high of $12.67 in 359 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:03 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $10.94 |
| 4:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $17.49 |
| 4:04 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $17.49 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $11.31, up 3.4% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $12.47, 28.7% 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
- $10.94
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $11.31
- Gap at the open
- +3.4%
- Pre-market high
- $17.49 at 4:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $17.49 at 4:04 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $10.88
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $12.47
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +14.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $12.45 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 349,727
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 8,550
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 22.8×
- Float
- 2.34 million shares, from filings as of August 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.34 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 286,794 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (80%), 19,654 in the first 30 minutes (5%), and 51,829 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (14%).
- Other days ASPC met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on August 20, 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 ASPC 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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