Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 12, 2026
USIO on August 12, 2026: why it ran
On August 12, 2026, USIO opened up 0.0% from the previous close of 2.23 and reached 2.42 at 3:52 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 2.23
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.23
- Gap at the open
- up 0.0%
- Pre-market high
- not available
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.42 at 3:52 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.15
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.29 at 5:08 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.38
- Volume
- 1.44 million
- Relative volume
- 11.2x
- Float
- 21.97 million shares, from filings as of August 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 27.60 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for USIO published between the previous session's close and the first minute USIO traded 20% above it, at 4:45 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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FORM 10-Q
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FORM 8-K
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Usio Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
News via Stock News API
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.23, up 0.0% from the previous close |
| 3:52 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 2.42 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.38, 1.9% below the high |
| 4:00 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Usio Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results |
| 4:00 p.m. | SEC filing 8-K: FORM 8-K |
| 4:00 p.m. | SEC filing 10-Q: FORM 10-Q |
| 4:45 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.23 |
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 44 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (10-Q, 4:00 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 0 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 7,996 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 1.43 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day USIO met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for USIO 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.
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