Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 9, 2026
NCPL, October 9: news and $1.40
NCPL opened down 17% after news, then ran to $1.24 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 3:28 p.m. Before the bell it reached $1.40, on 219K shares.
The open
It opened down 17%, at $1.09. It ran to $1.24 by 10:17 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.13, 19% 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 16.8% at $1.09, then ran from the open to the high of $1.24 in 47 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Oct 8, 9:36 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): ROSEN, THE FIRST FILING FIRM, Encourages Netcapital Inc. Investors to Secure Counsel Before Important Deadline in Securities Class Action First Filed by the Firm - NCPL |
| 7:55 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.40 |
| 7:55 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.40 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.09, down 16.8% from the previous close |
| 3:08 p.m. | News (Business Wire): Investor Alert: Robbins LLP Informs Investors of the Netcapital Inc. Class Action Lawsuit |
| 3:28 p.m. | News (Newsfile Corp): ROSEN, SKILLED INVESTOR COUNSEL, Encourages Netcapital Inc. Investors to Secure Counsel Before Important Deadline in Securities Class Action First Filed by the Firm - NCPL |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.13, 19.0% below the high |
| 4:56 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.31 |
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
- $1.31
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.09
- Gap at the open
- −16.8%
- Pre-market high
- $1.40 at 7:55 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.40 at 7:55 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.93
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.13
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −13.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.72 at 5:00 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 1.22 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.60 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.6×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 1 hour 28 minutes after the latest news item before it (Newsfile Corp, 3:28 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 218,580 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (6%), 333,239 in the first 30 minutes (9%), and 3.27 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (86%).
- Other days NCPL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 18, the latest on October 30, 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 NCPL 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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