Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 26, 2026
XOS, August 26: news and $3.98
XOS opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $3.98 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:30 p.m. Before the bell it reached $3.51, on 8K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $3.49. It ran to $3.98 by 10:19 a.m.
The close
It closed at $3.64, 9% 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 0.9% at $3.49, then ran from the open to the high of $3.98 in 49 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:23 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.51 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.49, down 0.9% from the previous close |
| 10:19 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.98 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.64, 8.5% below the high |
| 4:30 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Xos Secures Follow-On Xos Hub™ Order from Xcel Energy to Provide Expedited and Flexible Fast Charging Opportunities for EVs in Colorado |
| 4:30 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.52 |
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
- $3.52
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.49
- Gap at the open
- −0.9%
- Pre-market high
- $3.51 at 4:23 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.98 at 10:19 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.41
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.64
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +3.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.63 at 4:30 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 440,827
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.04 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.4×
- Float
- 8.66 million shares, from filings as of August 26, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 14.22 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, 4:30 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 8,159 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 112,505 in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 1.36 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (92%).
- Other days XOS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on August 20, 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 XOS 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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