Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
AZIO, August 27: news and $1.62
AZIO opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $1.44 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 8:05 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.62, on 3.3M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.20. It ran to $1.44 by 10:09 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.33, 18% 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 up 2.6% at $1.20, then ran from the open to the high of $1.44 in 39 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:05 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): AZIO AI Increases Estimated Sales Pipeline to Approximately $307 Million for Up to 512 NVIDIA HGX B300 Systems in Expanded Power Champion Agreement |
| 8:05 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.17 |
| 8:05 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.62 |
| 8:05 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.62 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.20, up 2.6% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.33, 17.9% 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
- $1.17
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.20
- Gap at the open
- +2.6%
- Pre-market high
- $1.62 at 8:05 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.62 at 8:05 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.06
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.33
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +13.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.42 at 6:02 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.88 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 39,618
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 20.8×
- Float
- 13.19 million shares, from filings as of August 27, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 16.47 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, 8:05 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3.30 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (67%), 327,793 in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 1.29 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (26%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day AZIO met the small-cap rule.
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 AZIO 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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