Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 19, 2026
EVAX, August 19: a run to $4.95
EVAX opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.37 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $4.95, on 2.6M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.03. It ran to $3.37 by 3:32 p.m.
The close
It closed at $3.18, 36% under 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 down 3.5% at $3.03, then ran from the open to the high of $3.37 in 362 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:03 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.14 |
| 7:03 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.95 |
| 7:03 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.95 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.03, down 3.5% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.18, 35.8% 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
- $3.14
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.03
- Gap at the open
- −3.5%
- Pre-market high
- $4.95 at 7:03 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.95 at 7:03 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.75
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.18
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +1.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.00 at 4:38 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.19 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 362,746
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 6.73 million shares, from filings as of August 19, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 8.34 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.60 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (73%), 84,456 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 869,200 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (24%).
- Other days EVAX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 20, 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 EVAX 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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