Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 3, 2026
NEXR, August 3: news, six halts, and $5.28
NEXR opened near its previous close after news, ran to $5.28 through six halts, then fell below its open by the close.
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What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:41 a.m. Before the bell it reached $4.50, on 244K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.26. It ran to $5.28 by 1:51 p.m.
The halts
Each halt froze the price and reopened it somewhere new. The exchange halted it six times, from 1:41 p.m. to 2:34 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 1:57 p.m.: 9% below the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $3.02, 43% under its high.
What to take from it: The run did not hold: it finished below where it opened.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run and fade. It opened down 7.6% at $3.26, then ran from the open to the high of $5.28 in 261 minutes through a halt, and gave it all back: it traded at $3.02 at 4:00 p.m., below the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:41 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Nexera Enters into Letter of Intent for Exclusive Distribution Rights to Darknet Intelligence Platform for Data Centers |
| 7:41 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.53 |
| 7:41 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.50 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.26, down 7.6% from the previous close |
| 1:51 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.28 |
| 1:56 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 541,868 shares |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.02, 42.8% 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
- $3.53
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.26
- Gap at the open
- −7.6%
- Pre-market high
- $4.50 at 7:41 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.28 at 1:51 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.90
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.02
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −14.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $3.05 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.05 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 59,588
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 10.8×
- Float
- 541,868 shares, from filings as of August 3, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 557,464
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:41 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 244,117 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (22%), 33,693 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 827,078 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (75%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 541,868 shares: past it once at 1:56 p.m., twice at 5:09 p.m.
- Other days NEXR met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 29, 2026.
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 (6)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:41 p.m. | 1:51 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 11.7% | $4.80, up 0.6% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) | |
| 1:51 p.m. | 1:56 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 10.7% | $5.00, down 5.3% | down 10.0% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 1:57 p.m. | 2:07 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 14.8% | $4.11, down 8.7% | down 12.2% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:11 p.m. | 2:21 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 19.8% | $3.50, down 3.0% | down 5.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:24 p.m. | 2:29 p.m. | 5 min 0 s | down 8.6% | $3.29, down 0.3% | down 0.9% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
| 2:34 p.m. | 2:44 p.m. | 10 min 0 s | down 12.0% | $2.90, down 4.0% | up 1.7% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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.
Analysis
Written by AI from the facts above and checked against them, number by number. A reading of the price action, not advice.
NEXR spiked pre-market on the letter-of-intent news, hitting 4.50 at 7:41 a.m., then opened weaker at 3.26, below the previous close of 3.53. The real run came in the afternoon, when it pushed to 5.28 at 1:51 p.m. with volume passing the whole 541,868-share float at 1:56 p.m. That peak set off a string of 6 LULD halts, and each reopening gave back more ground, from 5.00 down to 4.11, 3.50 and finally 2.90. The stock steadied after the last halt and finished at 3.02, 42.8% below the high. With 10.8x relative volume and a float this small, the day reads as a thin-float spike that faded completely once the halts began.
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