Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
EXYN, August 26: one halt and $4.32
EXYN opened near its previous close, then ran to $4.32 through one halt during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $3.57, on 21K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.42. It ran to $4.32 by 3:23 p.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 11:11 a.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 11:11 a.m.: 13% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $3.97, 8% 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 6.5% at $3.42, then ran from the open to the high of $4.32 in 353 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.57 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.42, up 6.5% from the previous close |
| 11:02 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.21 |
| 3:23 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.32 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.97, 8.1% 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
- $3.21
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.42
- Gap at the open
- +6.5%
- Pre-market high
- $3.57 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.32 at 3:23 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.15
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.97
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +23.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.10 at 4:31 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.30 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 53,585
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.0×
- Float
- 2.50 million shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.95 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 21,315 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 137,687 in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 1.19 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (88%).
- Other days EXYN met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 19, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:11 a.m. | 11:21 a.m. | 10 min 1 s | down 10.0% | $3.15, down 12.7% | up 8.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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