Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 25, 2026
SWVL, August 25: a 7:30 headline, $3.46, and a $2.20 bid
SWVL opened up 55% after news and held near that level into the close.
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What happened
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The 7:30 headline
SWVL closed the day before at $1.49 on just 1,660 shares. At 7:30 a.m. it announced a $13 million investment round.
It ran to $3.46 at 7:43 a.m., 132% above the prior close. The next push, at 7:59, stopped lower at $3.20.
The bid at $2.20
The open at $2.31 was far under that high. From 9:41 a.m. a bid sat at $2.20, peaking near 42K shares.
Stop It's 9:44. SWVL is at $2.28. Just below, a bid at $2.20 has peaked at about 42,000 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:41 a.m. and stop at 9:44 a.m. ET for your call.
Sellers ate it. From 9:45:16, 36K shares hit $2.20 in 4.5 seconds and the bid was gone. That minute fell to $2.15.
The wall at $2.30
Next came a wall above. From 10:27 a.m. an ask sat at $2.30, peaking near 44K shares.
Stop It's 10:41. SWVL is at $2.26. Just above, a wall of up to about 44,000 shares has been offered at $2.30 for the last 14 minutes. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:38 a.m. and stop at 10:41 a.m. ET for your call.
The wall was gone by 10:41:40, but the stock topped at $2.32 and was back at $2.20 by 10:44. It hit $1.88 at 11:21 and closed at $2.21, 36% under the high.
What to take from it: A big bid on the screen is not a floor: sellers ate the $2.20 bid in seconds.
Replay SWVL's day
It starts at 7:26 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 7:29 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
Gap and hold. It gapped up 55.0% to $2.31 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $2.21 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Swvl Announces $13 Million Strategic Investment Round Priced At-The-Market Under Nasdaq Rules led by the Sawiris Family and Coefficient LP to Anchor Its Next Phase of Growth and U.S. Expansion | |
| 7:30 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.49 | |
| 7:39 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 6.02 million shares | |
| 7:43 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.46 | |
| 7:43 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.46 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.31, up 55.0% from the previous close | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.21, 36.1% 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
- $1.49
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.31
- Gap at the open
- +55.0%
- Pre-market high
- $3.46 at 7:43 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.46 at 7:43 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.40
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.21
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +48.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.40 at 5:30 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 38.86 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 533,693
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- n/m
- Float
- 6.02 million shares, from filings as of August 25, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.66 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 7:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 30.53 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (78%), 4.11 million in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 4.75 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (12%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 6.02 million shares: past it once at 7:39 a.m., twice at 7:45 a.m., three times at 8:01 a.m.
- Other days SWVL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on August 28, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 SWVL 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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