Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
DXST, August 3: a 6-K and an after-hours run to $4.30
DXST barely moved in the regular session after a 6-K, then ran to $4.30 after the close.
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: a 6-K at 4:30 p.m. Before the bell it reached $2.33, on 2K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.31.
The close
It closed at $2.30, near its high. After the close it ran to $4.30 by 6:55 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 0.9% at $2.31 and traded at $2.30 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 87.0% from $2.30 to $4.30 at 6:55 p.m. after the close, on 2.22 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:03 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.33 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.31, up 0.9% from the previous close |
| 9:58 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.41 |
| 3:57 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.30, 4.6% below the high |
| 4:30 p.m. | SEC filing 6-K: FORM 6-K |
| 6:47 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.29 |
| 6:59 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.22 million 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
- $2.29
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.31
- Gap at the open
- +0.9%
- Pre-market high
- $2.33 at 9:03 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.41 at 9:58 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.20
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.30
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +0.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.30 at 6:55 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 8,019
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.22 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 3.2×
- Float
- 1.22 million shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.82 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 hours 16 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (6-K, 4:30 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2,404 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 1,710 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 2.22 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.22 million shares: past it once at 6:59 p.m.
- Other days DXST met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on September 29, 2026.
- The next session, August 4, 2026, it was up 20.4% 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 DXST 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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