Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026
PXS, August 31: news and an after-hours run to $6.72
PXS barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $6.72 after the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 4:15 p.m. Before the bell it reached $5.54, on 235 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $5.37.
The close
It closed at $5.38, near its high. After the close it ran to $6.72 by 4:29 p.m.
What to take from it: The day's real move came after the 4 p.m. close, not in the regular session.
The details
How it traded, step by step
After-hours run. It opened up 0.2% at $5.37 and traded at $5.38 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 24.9% from $5.38 to $6.72 at 4:29 p.m. after the close, on 378,816 shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 2:05 a.m. | News (Benzinga): SAIC, Walmart And 3 Stocks To Watch Heading Into Monday |
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $5.54 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $5.37, up 0.2% from the previous close |
| 3:30 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $5.55 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.38, 3.1% below the high |
| 4:15 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Pyxis Tankers Announces Financial Results for the Three & Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 |
| 4:28 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $5.36 |
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
- $5.36
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $5.37
- Gap at the open
- +0.2%
- Pre-market high
- $5.54 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.55 at 3:30 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $5.35
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.38
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +0.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $6.72 at 4:29 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 30,336
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 378,816
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 21.8×
- Float
- 4.18 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 10.24 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 13 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 4:15 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 235 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 8,427 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 400,490 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (98%).
- Other days PXS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 1, 2026.
- The next session, September 1, 2026, it was up 15.3% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
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 PXS 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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