Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
ALGS, August 10: a run to $7.71
ALGS opened near its previous close, then ran to $7.71 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $5.74, on 263 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $5.74. It ran to $7.71 by 3:57 p.m.
The close
It closed at $7.63, near its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 2.7% at $5.74, then ran from the open to the high of $7.71 in 387 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.74 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.74, up 2.7% from the previous close |
| 10:05 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.59 |
| 3:57 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.71 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $7.63, 1.0% 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
- $5.59
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.74
- Gap at the open
- +2.7%
- Pre-market high
- $5.74 at 8:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.71 at 3:57 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.60
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $7.63
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +36.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.65 at 4:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 323,083
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 11,826
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.5×
- Float
- 2.85 million shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 6.24 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 263 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 10,760 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 323,886 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (97%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day ALGS met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, 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 ALGS 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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