Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 24, 2026
AVX, September 24: a run to $5.49
AVX opened near its previous close, then ran to $5.49 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $4.08, on 1K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $4.03. It ran to $5.49 by 3:59 p.m.
The close
It closed at $5.46, near 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 1.7% at $4.03, then ran from the open to the high of $5.49 in 389 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:31 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.08 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.03, down 1.7% from the previous close |
| 10:41 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.10 |
| 3:59 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.49 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.46, 0.5% 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
- $4.10
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.03
- Gap at the open
- −1.7%
- Pre-market high
- $4.08 at 8:31 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.49 at 3:59 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.93
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.46
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +33.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.60 at 4:14 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.03 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 15,746
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.2×
- Float
- 6.60 million shares, from filings as of September 24, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.40 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,408 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 105,595 in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 942,446 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (90%).
- Other days AVX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 21, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers. 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 AVX 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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