Screening Filters
Market Cap ≥ $300,000,000
- Purpose: Focus on established, more stable companies.
- Rationale: Very small / micro-cap stocks can show extreme pre-market moves driven by a few trades or illiquidity, which may not be representative of broader pre-market performance. A $300M+ floor keeps the universe to names where pre-market moves are more meaningful and less easily manipulated.
Price ≥ $2
- Purpose: Exclude very low-priced and penny stocks.
- Rationale: Sub-$2 stocks often have large percentage swings on minimal dollar moves (e.g., $0.20 → $0.24 is +20%). These can distort the view of “pre-market performance.” A $2+ price helps focus on stocks where moves are more likely to reflect real information rather than noise.
Average Volume ≥ 100,000
- Purpose: Ensure there is sufficient trading activity.
- Rationale: Low-volume stocks may show big pre-market percentage changes on tiny share counts. Requiring at least 100k in regular trading volume helps highlight stocks where pre-market action is more liquid and tradable, and more likely to matter to most investors.
Pre-market Price Change ≥ +3%
- Purpose: Capture notable pre-market movers.
- Rationale: When you ask about “pre-market stock performance,” you’re generally most interested in stocks moving meaningfully before the open (earnings reactions, news, upgrades/downgrades, etc.). A 3% minimum filters out noise and focuses on impactful pre-market moves.
Region: United States
- Purpose: Limit results to U.S.-listed stocks.
- Rationale: Pre-market hours, liquidity patterns, and news flow differ by region. Since most users referencing a specific U.S. date (4/10/2026) are looking at the U.S. session, this filter ensures you see names trading on the U.S. schedule and in U.S. pre-market hours.
Exchanges: XNYS (NYSE), XNAS (NASDAQ), XASE (AMEX)
- Purpose: Focus on major U.S. exchanges.
- Rationale: These are the primary, most liquid U.S. stock venues. Restricting to NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX avoids OTC and other less-regulated markets, where price discovery and pre-market data may be less reliable.
Why Results Match Your Request
- The pre_market_price_change ≥ 3% filter directly targets stocks with notable pre-market performance on 4/10/2026.
- The market cap, price, and volume filters refine that list to more liquid, tradable, and generally higher-quality names, so their pre-market moves are meaningful rather than random noise.
- The U.S. region and major exchange filters align the universe with typical U.S. pre-market trading behavior, matching the likely context of your request.
This list is generated based on data from one or more third party data providers. It is provided for informational purposes only by Intellectia.AI, and is not investment advice or a recommendation. Intellectia does not make any warranty or guarantee relating to the accuracy, timeliness or completeness of any third-party information, and the provision of this information does not constitute a recommendation.