ASPN, August 6: an 8-K and $8.10

Gap, run and fade. It gapped up 45.7% to $7.30 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $8.10 in 65 minutes, then gave back 151% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $6.89, below the open.

The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.

Previous close

$5.01

Open, 9:30 a.m.

$7.30

Gap at the open

+45.7%

Pre-market high

$7.29 at 9:29 a.m.

High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

$8.10 at 10:35 a.m.

Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

$5.08

Close, 4 p.m.

$6.89

Change at 4 p.m.

+37.5%

After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

$7.01 at 7:57 p.m.

Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.

8.09 million

Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

290,879

Relative volume by 8 p.m.

12.1×

Float

70.01 million shares, from filings as of August 6, 2026

Shares outstanding

82.88 million

• From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 4 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 6:30 a.m.).
• Volume, from the one-minute bars: 515,074 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (6%), 1.81 million in the first 30 minutes (22%), and 6.05 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (72%).
• In our recaps, this is the only day ASPN 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).

The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for ASPN that day.

Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).