Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 29, 2026
NCI, September 29: a run to $2.53
NCI opened down 43%, then ran to $1.86 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.53, on 290K shares.
The open
It opened down 43%, at $1.36. It ran to $1.86 by 10:37 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.31, 48% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened down 42.9% at $1.36, then ran from the open to the high of $1.86 in 67 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:00 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.53 |
| 4:00 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.53 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.36, down 42.9% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.31, 48.2% below the high |
| 4:24 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 2.03 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
- $2.38
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.36
- Gap at the open
- −42.9%
- Pre-market high
- $2.53 at 4:00 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.53 at 4:00 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.26
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.31
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −45.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.35 at 4:42 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 768,211
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.36 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.4×
- Float
- 2.03 million shares, from filings as of September 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 2.36 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 289,665 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (6%), 113,234 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 4.73 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (92%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 2.03 million shares: past it once at 4:24 p.m., twice at 5:05 p.m.
- Other days NCI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on September 30, 2026.
On the day's lists: the after-hours movers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the after-hours movers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, 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 NCI 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.
Trade this day
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