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RCEL, August 7: news and $8.07

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RCEL opened up 26% after news, ran to $8.07, and held most of the move into the close.

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NewsNews$8.07$4.75$5.304 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
RCEL on August 7, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

What happened

Before the open

The news came first: news at 2:54 a.m. Before the bell it reached $6.04, on 77K shares.

The open

It opened up 26%, at $5.98. It ran to $8.07 by 2:35 p.m.

The close

It closed at $7.79, near its high.

What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.

The details

How it traded, step by step

Gap and go. It gapped up 25.9% to $5.98 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $8.07 in 305 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 14% of it by 4:00 p.m.

Time (ET)What happened
Aug 6, 4:02 p.m.News (GlobeNewsWire): AVITA Medical Reports Second Quarter Results, Raises 2026 Revenue Guidance, and Expects Fourth Quarter Cash Flow Breakeven
2:54 a.m.News (Seeking Alpha): AVITA Medical, Inc. (RCEL) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
5:32 a.m.First trade 20% above the previous close of $4.75
6:16 a.m.Pre-market high, $6.04
9:30 a.m.The open: $5.98, up 25.9% from the previous close
2:35 p.m.High of the day to the close, $8.07
3:59 p.m.Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.79, 3.5% 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
$4.75
Open, 9:30 a.m.
$5.98
Gap at the open
+25.9%
Pre-market high
$6.04 at 6:16 a.m.
High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$8.07 at 2:35 p.m.
Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$5.30
Close, 4 p.m.
$7.79
Change at 4 p.m.
+63.9%
After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
$8.00 at 7:31 p.m.
Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
3.45 million
Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
76,745
Relative volume by 8 p.m.
27.3×
Float
30.38 million shares, from filings as of August 7, 2026
Shares outstanding
30.93 million
  • From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 hours 37 minutes after the latest news item before it (Seeking Alpha, 2:54 a.m.).
  • Volume, from the one-minute bars: 76,728 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 449,163 in the first 30 minutes (13%), and 3.00 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (85%).
  • In our recaps, this is the only day RCEL 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 RCEL 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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