Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 24, 2026
SUGP, August 24: a 6:00 headline and a bid at $1.50
SUGP spiked to $2.44 before the open after news, then gave much of it back in the session.
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What happened
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The 6:00 headline
SUGP sat near $1.45 until a 6:00 a.m. headline about Macao rights.
By 6:02 it hit $2.05, up 41%. By 6:04, more shares had traded than the whole float.
Stop It's 6:19 a.m. SUGP is at $2.40, up 50% from the $1.60 previous close. A headline came out 19 minutes ago and more than 100,000 shares traded in most of the minutes since. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 6:16 a.m. and stop at 6:19 a.m. ET for your call.
That minute was the top. The high was $2.44.
The bid at $1.50
After a lower high of $2.34, it slid. From 7:07 a.m. a big bid waited at $1.50. At 7:46 the price touched it and bounced.
Stop It's 8:02 a.m. SUGP is at $1.52. A bid has sat at $1.50 since 7:07, at one point 46,699 shares, about 7% of the float, and it bounced off that price at 7:46. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 7:59 a.m. and stop at 8:02 a.m. ET for your call.
Sellers ate it. 26K shares traded at $1.50 in under a minute, and the bid was gone. The low hit $1.48 by 8:05.
Open and close
It opened at $1.43 and hit the day's low of $1.24 at 9:43 a.m. It finished at $1.31.
What to take from it: A big bid that bounced the price once was eaten the next time.
Replay SUGP's day
It starts at 10:23 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:26 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Pre-market spike. Before the open it spiked 52.5% from $1.60 to $2.44 at 6:19 a.m.. It opened down 10.6% at $1.43 and traded at $1.31 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 6:00 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): SU Group Secures Exclusive Macao Rights for Award-Winning Robotic Infrastructure Inspection Solution | |
| 6:02 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.60 | |
| 6:04 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 701,604 shares | |
| 6:19 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.44 | |
| 6:19 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.44 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.43, down 10.6% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.31, 46.3% 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
- $1.60
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.43
- Gap at the open
- −10.6%
- Pre-market high
- $2.44 at 6:19 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.44 at 6:19 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.24
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.31
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −18.1%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.40 at 6:07 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.81 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 253,508
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.5×
- Float
- 701,604 shares, from filings as of August 24, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 892,954
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 minutes after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 6:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8.30 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (82%), 509,602 in the first 30 minutes (5%), and 1.25 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (12%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 701,604 shares: past it once at 6:04 a.m., twice at 6:09 a.m., three times at 6:13 a.m.
- Other days SUGP met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on October 13, 2026.
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 SUGP 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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