Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
ABTS, August 3: an after-hours run to $1.72
ABTS barely moved in the regular session, then ran to $1.72 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.02, on 20 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.10.
The close
It closed at $1.06, near its high. After the close it ran to $1.72 by 4:06 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 up 7.8% at $1.10 and traded at $1.06 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 62.3% from $1.06 to $1.72 at 4:06 p.m. after the close, on 2.41 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:32 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.02 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.10, up 7.8% from the previous close |
| 9:30 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.10 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.06, 3.6% below the high |
| 4:04 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.02 |
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
- $1.02
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.10
- Gap at the open
- +7.8%
- Pre-market high
- $1.02 at 7:32 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.10 at 9:30 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.00
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.06
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +3.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.72 at 4:06 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7,164
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.41 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 161.8×
- Float
- 2.50 million shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.96 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 20 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,654 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.41 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day ABTS met the small-cap rule.
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 ABTS 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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