Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 30, 2026
AIB, September 30: news and a pre-market spike to $2.34
AIB spiked to $2.34 before the open after news, then gave much of it back in the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 8:17 a.m. Before the bell it reached $2.34, on 7.6M shares.
The open
It opened down 15%, at $1.45.
The close
It closed at $1.32, 43% under its high.
What to take from it: The move happened before the bell. The regular session never got back to the pre-market high.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Pre-market spike. Before the open it spiked 36.8% from $1.71 to $2.34 at 8:17 a.m.. It opened down 15.2% at $1.45 and traded at $1.32 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:17 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): AIB Data Centers Signs Contract with Nebius for AI Data Center Capacity |
| 8:17 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.71 |
| 8:17 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.34 |
| 8:17 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.34 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.45, down 15.2% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.32, 43.4% below the high |
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
- $1.71
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.45
- Gap at the open
- −15.2%
- Pre-market high
- $2.34 at 8:17 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.34 at 8:17 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.17
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.32
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −22.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.40 at 5:34 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 13.48 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 202,315
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 19.6×
- Float
- 38.16 million shares, from filings as of September 30, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 75.98 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 8:17 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 7.56 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (55%), 2.21 million in the first 30 minutes (16%), and 3.92 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (29%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day AIB met the small-cap rule.
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 AIB 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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