Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 10, 2026
PIII, August 10: a quiet grind to $13.90, then $18.45 after the bell
PIII opened near its previous close, then ran to $13.90 during the session.
What happened
Draft for review. Not published.
A thin climb
Only 1,106 shares traded before the bell. It opened at $11.73 and climbed in small steps to $13.90, the high so far, at 2:56 p.m.
The late slide
From there it slid to $12.22 at 3:44 p.m., then bounced.
Stop It's 3:55. PIII is at $12.76. The high so far was $13.90 at 2:56 p.m., and the stock slid to $12.22 at 3:44 before bouncing back. The previous close was $11.58. Trading has been thin all day, with many minutes showing only a handful of shares, and the float is just 564,691 shares. Would you buy here?
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It kept recovering and closed at $12.99 on just 36K shares.
After the bell
Earnings news changed the evening. An 8-K landed at 4:03 p.m., and results came out at 4:05. That minute ran from $13.51 to $16.10.
The 4:07 minute hit $18.45, the day's high. The next minute fell to $16.12. After hours, 313K shares traded.
What to take from it: Here the big move came after the close, and it pulled back within a minute.
Replay PIII's day
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The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 1.3% at $11.73, then ran from the open to the high of $13.90 in 326 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 6:46 a.m. | Pre-market high, $11.97 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $11.73, up 1.3% from the previous close | |
| 2:56 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $11.58 | |
| 2:56 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $13.90 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $12.99, 6.5% 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
- $11.58
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $11.73
- Gap at the open
- +1.3%
- Pre-market high
- $11.97 at 6:46 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $13.90 at 2:56 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $11.55
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $12.99
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +12.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $18.45 at 4:07 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 36,756
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 313,135
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 28.4×
- Float
- 564,691 shares, from filings as of August 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.24 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1,106 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 3,496 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 345,289 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Other days PIII met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 11, 2026.
On the day's lists: the after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the after-hours movers: 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 PIII 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.
Trade this day
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