Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 13, 2026
AEHL, October 13: an after-hours run to $22.61
AEHL barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $22.61 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $9.40, on 754 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $9.08.
The close
It closed at $8.29, 12% under its high. After the close it ran to $22.61 by 7:01 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened down 2.0% at $9.08 and traded at $8.29 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 172.7% from $8.29 to $22.61 at 7:01 p.m. after the close, on 2.33 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:20 a.m. | Pre-market high, $9.40 |
| 7:20 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $9.40 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $9.08, down 2.0% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.29, 11.8% below the high |
| 4:17 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $9.27 |
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
- $9.27
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $9.08
- Gap at the open
- −2.0%
- Pre-market high
- $9.40 at 7:20 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $9.40 at 7:20 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.29
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.29
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −10.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $22.61 at 7:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 33,185
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.33 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 7.2×
- Float
- 16.41 million shares, from filings as of October 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 19.01 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 754 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 2,170 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.36 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Other days AEHL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 10, the latest on November 4, 2026.
- The next session, October 14, 2026, it was up 35.4% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
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 (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.
Trade this day
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