Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 4, 2026
XOS on August 4, 2026: why it ran
On August 4, 2026, XOS opened up 1.8% from the previous close of 2.17 and reached 2.72 at 3:17 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 2.17
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.21
- Gap at the open
- up 1.8%
- Pre-market high
- 2.26 at 5:12 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.72 at 3:17 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.15
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.06 at 6:11 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.64
- Volume
- 346,613
- Relative volume
- 6.6x
- Float
- 8.10 million shares, from filings as of August 4, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 13.72 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for XOS published between the previous session's close and the first minute XOS traded 20% above it, at 2:42 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Xos Releases White Paper Mapping the 117 MWh Zero-Emission Power Gap Across LA28's Olympic Venues
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 1.8% at 2.21, then ran from the open to the high of 2.72 in 347 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 3, 4:30 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Xos Releases White Paper Mapping the 117 MWh Zero-Emission Power Gap Across LA28's Olympic Venues |
| 5:12 a.m. | Pre-market high, 2.26 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.21, up 1.8% from the previous close |
| 2:42 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.17 |
| 3:17 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 2.72 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.64, 2.9% below the high |
The shape is a fixed rule, not a judgement: gapped 10% or more at the open, ran 10% or more from the open to the high, and faded if it gave back 30% or more of that move by the close.
The day in numbers
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 22 hours 12 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, Aug 3, 4:30 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 143 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 4,028 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 342,442 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Other days XOS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 5, the latest on August 26, 2026.
- The next session, August 5, 2026, it was up 11.4% from its previous close at the 4:00 p.m. close.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for XOS that day.
On this date the LULD plan ran under Amendment 18, in force from February 24, 2020: no band doubling at the open, and the closing doubling only for Tier 1 stocks and Tier 2 stocks whose previous close was at or below three dollars. See LULD halts or work out a band with the LULD calculator.
Trade this day
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