Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 28, 2026
AEHL, August 28: a 6-K and $5.22
AEHL opened down 39% after a 6-K, then ran to $4.10 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: a 6-K at 8:40 a.m. Before the bell it reached $5.22, on 79K shares.
The open
It opened down 39%, at $3.08. It ran to $4.10 by 11:56 a.m.
The close
It closed at $3.43, 34% 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 39.5% at $3.08, then ran from the open to the high of $4.10 in 146 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:11 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.22 |
| 4:11 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.22 |
| 8:40 a.m. | SEC filing 6-K: 6-K |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.08, down 39.5% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.43, 34.3% below the high |
| 4:48 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.09 |
| 4:53 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 938,191 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
- $5.09
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.08
- Gap at the open
- −39.5%
- Pre-market high
- $5.22 at 4:11 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.22 at 4:11 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.40
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.43
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −32.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.70 at 7:59 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 160,848
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.21 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 22.1×
- Float
- 938,191 shares, from filings as of August 28, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.31 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 8 hours 7 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (6-K, 8:40 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 78,601 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 19,099 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 3.27 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 938,191 shares: past it once at 4:53 p.m., twice at 5:24 p.m., three times at 6:09 p.m.
- Other days AEHL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 10, the latest on November 4, 2026.
- The next session, August 31, 2026, it was up 82.9% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
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 AEHL 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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