Recaps · August 24, 2026

SUGP, August 24: a 6:00 headline and a bid at $1.50

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: pre-market
• News at 6:00 a.m.
• Float traded 14x

Float

701,604 shares

Volume

10.07 million shares

Previous close

$1.60

Open

$1.43 (up 10.6%)

High

$2.44 at 6:19 a.m.

Close

$1.31

The day before

On August 21, SUGP opened at $3.50 and traded as high as $4.85 and as low as $1.12, on 21.9 million shares. The official close was $1.60.

Pre-market: quiet, then 6:00 a.m.

It started the day at $1.55 and hit $1.73 in the first minute, 4:00 a.m. Then it slid to $1.36 at 4:28 a.m., down 21% from that high.

From there it crept back. For the hour from 5 a.m. it stayed between $1.43 and $1.50 on thin volume. The 5:58 minute closed at $1.45.

At 6:00 a.m. PRNewsWire ran: “SU Group Secures Exclusive Macao Rights for Award-Winning Robotic Infrastructure Inspection Solution”. The 6:00 minute opened at $1.48 and closed at $1.65. By 6:02 a.m. it had reached $2.05, up 41% from the $1.45 close at 5:58 a.m., with 178,968 shares in that one minute.

By 6:04 a.m., more shares had traded than exist in the whole float (701,604). It pulled back to $1.76 at 6:04 and 6:05, then ran to $2.13 at 6:07. By 6:12 it was at $2.25. By 6:18 the high was $2.42.

Here's what happened. The 6:19 minute set the high so far, $2.44. By 6:20 it was down to $2.21, and by 6:21 it touched $2.15. 8.30 million shares traded before the bell.

Above the price, large ask walls appeared. One showed at $3.00 at 6:18:49. A smaller one showed at $2.50 at 6:19:44.

The lower high and the slide

It came back once more. At 6:32 a.m. it pushed to $2.34, a lower high under the $2.44 top. At 6:35:41 a bid of 50,468 shares appeared at $1.62, 7.2% of the float, far below the price. It was pulled at 6:44:25.

The slide started at 6:42 with $2.01 in the low and 165,346 shares in the minute. A sell order swept 15,300 shares from $2.12 to $2.10 at 6:42:15. It was $1.87 at 6:52 and $1.76 at 7:00. At 7:07 the low was $1.61, a penny above the previous close. By 7:15 the day's volume was ten times the float.

The bid at $1.50

From 7:07 a.m. on, someone was bidding for a lot of stock at exactly $1.50. It peaked at 46,699 shares at 7:41 a.m., about 7% of the float. At 7:45 the stock fell from $1.63 to $1.53 on 74,578 shares. At 7:46 it touched $1.50 and bounced to $1.56. The bid held.

Then it sat in a tight range between $1.52 and $1.56 until 8:00.

Here's what happened. From 8:02:57 to 8:03:44, 26,130 shares traded at exactly $1.50 in 47.5 seconds and the wall was gone. It wasn't pulled. Sellers hit it. The low went to $1.48 by 8:05, two cents under the wall.

It then held $1.48 to $1.49 for about 15 minutes. At 8:22 a buy order swept 18,458 shares from $1.49 to $1.51, and it drifted up to $1.55 by 8:34. At 9:00 it was $1.50 again.

The open and the close

It opened at $1.43, down 11% from the previous close. A sell order took 15,108 shares from $1.44 to $1.40 at 9:28:10, two minutes before the bell. The 9:30 minute traded 58,105 shares.

It kept fading: $1.24 at 9:43 a.m., the low of the day, after 87,165 shares traded in the 9:41 minute. A bid wall of up to 62,812 shares sat at $1.20 (it peaked at 10:08), with another of up to 35,330 at $1.25. Price never traded down to $1.20.

From there it chopped between about $1.25 and $1.40 the rest of the session and finished at $1.31 at 3:59 p.m. The $3.00 ask wall from 6:18 had grown to 170,307 shares at 11:53 a.m., 24.3% of the float. The stock never traded at $2.50 or $3.00; its high was $2.44. After hours it popped to $1.40 at 6:07 p.m. and ended the evening at $1.27.

1.51 million shares traded in the regular session. For the whole day, 10.07 million shares traded: the float changed hands about 14 times, at about 6.5 times its normal volume. Most of it came before the bell: 8.30 million shares.

What to take from it

• The whole move was a pre-market move. The high came at 6:19 a.m. The open was $1.43, and the stock finished at $1.31, 46% below the high.
• After the top, the next push stopped lower. $2.44 at 6:19 a.m., then $2.34 at 6:32 a.m.
• A big bid wall is not a floor. The $1.50 bid held at 7:46 a.m. and was eaten by sellers at 8:03 a.m.