Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 1, 2026
KITT, September 1: news and an after-hours run to $1.13
KITT barely moved in the regular session after news, then ran to $1.13 after the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 5:32 p.m. Before the bell it reached $0.832, on 131 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $0.8172.
The close
It closed at $0.7878, 5% under its high. After the close it ran to $1.13 by 5:45 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 0.8% at $0.8172 and traded at $0.7878 at the 4:00 p.m. close, then ran 43.4% from $0.7878 to $1.13 at 5:45 p.m. after the close, on 6.74 million shares traded after hours.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:03 a.m. | Pre-market high, $0.832 |
| 6:03 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $0.832 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $0.8172, up 0.8% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $0.7878, 5.3% below the high |
| 5:32 p.m. | News (PRNewsWire): Nauticus Robotics, Inc. Announces Substantially Stronger Q3 Offshore Activity with Both ROV Systems Deployed |
| 5:40 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.8111 |
| 6:57 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 5.94 million shares |
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
- $0.8111
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $0.8172
- Gap at the open
- +0.8%
- Pre-market high
- $0.832 at 6:03 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.832 at 6:03 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.7841
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $0.7878
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −2.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.13 at 5:45 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 60,063
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 6.74 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 54.7×
- Float
- 5.94 million shares, from filings as of September 1, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.47 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 8 minutes after the latest news item before it (PRNewsWire, 5:32 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 131 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 10,511 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 6.79 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 5.94 million shares: past it once at 6:57 p.m.
- Other days KITT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 25, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, 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 KITT 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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