Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 24, 2026
HVII, August 24: a gap that faded
HVII opened up 17%, then faded below its open by the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $8.00, on 41K shares.
The open
It opened up 17%, at $7.46.
The close
It closed at $7.08, 12% under its high.
What to take from it: A big gap is not a trend. This one traded below its open by the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and fade. It gapped up 16.8% to $7.46 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at $7.08.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:24 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $6.38 |
| 4:24 a.m. | Pre-market high, $8.00 |
| 4:24 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.00 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $7.46, up 16.8% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.08, 11.6% 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
- $6.38
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $7.46
- Gap at the open
- +16.8%
- Pre-market high
- $8.00 at 4:24 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.00 at 4:24 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $6.45
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $7.08
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +10.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $11.00 at 5:34 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 72,618
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 382,005
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.1×
- Float
- 19.69 million shares, from filings as of August 24, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 26.02 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 41,454 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (9%), 14,762 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 398,407 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (88%).
- Other days HVII met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 23, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners, after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 HVII 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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