Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 8, 2026
MOBX, September 8: two ask walls, $1.47, and 1.8x the float in regular hours
MOBX opened up 27% after news, ran to $1.47, then gave back most of the run by the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Contract news
An F-16 parts order hit the wire at 8:10 a.m. It opened at $1.18, up 27%.
Two walls break
Stop It's 9:53. MOBX is at $1.29. An ask wall at $1.30 peaked at about 157,000 shares at 9:46. A bid wall of up to about 167,000 shares formed at $1.20 from 9:40. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:50 a.m. and stop at 9:53 a.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate the $1.30 wall in about six seconds. It was gone at 9:53:44.
Stop It's 9:58. MOBX is at $1.40. About 145,000 shares are offered at exactly $1.40, and the stock has been pressing it for the last few minutes. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 9:55 a.m. and stop at 9:58 a.m. ET for your call.
The $1.40 wall went at 9:58:18. Seconds later the high hit $1.47. By 10:00 it was back at $1.26.
After 10:00
Stop It's 10:48. MOBX is at $1.29. A bid wall at $1.25 has been on the book since 10:02, when it showed about 157,000 shares. Since 10:20 the stock has been chopping between $1.27 and $1.37. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:45 a.m. and stop at 10:48 a.m. ET for your call.
Sellers ate the $1.25 bid at 10:48:32. It closed near $1.27 on 28M shares, 1.8x the float.
What to take from it: Walls broke in seconds, but the high lasted less than two minutes.
Replay MOBX's day
It starts at 8:05 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 8:08 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 26.9% to $1.18 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $1.47 in 28 minutes, then gave back 71% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $1.26, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 8:10 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Mobix Labs Secures Initial F-16 Component Order, Expanding U.S. Fighter Aircraft Footprint | |
| 8:10 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.9301 | |
| 8:26 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.40 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.18, up 26.9% from the previous close | |
| 9:41 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 15.33 million shares | |
| 9:58 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.47 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.26, 13.9% 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
- $0.9301
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.18
- Gap at the open
- +26.9%
- Pre-market high
- $1.40 at 8:26 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.47 at 9:58 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.9462
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.26
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +36.0%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.35 at 4:44 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 40.74 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.12 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 76.8×
- Float
- 15.33 million shares, from filings as of September 8, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 16.85 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 (Business Wire, 8:10 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 13.20 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (32%), 10.33 million in the first 30 minutes (25%), and 18.33 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (44%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 15.33 million shares: past it once at 9:41 a.m., twice at 10:20 a.m.
- Other days MOBX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 6, 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 MOBX 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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