Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 10, 2026
DBGI, September 10: a ten-minute halt, $7.48, and a float that turned over 13 times
DBGI opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $7.48 through one halt during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
News, then a halt
A go-private update hit at 9:12 a.m. DBGI ran from a $3.76 open to $5.09. At 10:24:51 it was halted. A 48K-share ask sat at $5.63.
Stop It's 10:34. DBGI has been halted since 10:24, last trade $5.09, and the 10:34 minute opens at $5.27. About 48,000 shares are offered at $5.63. Would you buy the reopen?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 10:31 a.m. and stop at 10:34 a.m. ET for your call.
It reopened at 10:34:51 at $5.27. The $5.63 wall was pulled five seconds later.
A slow midday
It slid to $5.18 by noon.
Stop It's 1:40 p.m. DBGI is at $5.88. Since noon it has held between $5.18 and $5.94, and volume has been light. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 1:37 p.m. and stop at 1:40 p.m. ET for your call.
Buy sweeps hit that minute. It reached $7.14 by 2:01.
Near the old high
Stop It's 3:03. DBGI is at $7.30, up from $6.94 at 3:00. The 2:43 high was $7.44. Would you buy a break above it?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 3:00 p.m. and stop at 3:03 p.m. ET for your call.
It broke through to $7.48 at 3:03, the regular-session high. It closed at $6.74, then hit $7.85 after hours. The float changed hands about 13 times.
What to take from it: A thin reopen can cost far more than the screen shows.
Replay DBGI's day
It starts at 10:18 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 10:21 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
Intraday run. It opened up 0.3% at $3.76, then ran from the open to the high of $7.48 in 333 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:05 a.m. | Pre-market high, $3.81 | |
| 9:12 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Digital Brands Group Investor Update: U.S. Program & Go-Private Process and Timeline | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $3.76, up 0.3% from the previous close | |
| 9:53 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $3.75 | |
| 10:38 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 933,508 shares | |
| 3:03 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.48 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $6.74, 9.9% 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
- $3.75
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.76
- Gap at the open
- +0.3%
- Pre-market high
- $3.81 at 7:05 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.48 at 3:03 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.70
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $6.74
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +79.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $7.85 at 4:43 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 12.21 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.83 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 92.6×
- Float
- 933,508 shares, from filings as of September 10, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 933,509
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 41 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 9:12 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3,137 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 112,799 in the first 30 minutes (1%), and 13.93 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 933,508 shares: past it once at 10:38 a.m., twice at 10:50 a.m., three times at 11:01 a.m.
- Other days DBGI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 3, the latest on September 23, 2026.
On the day's lists: the gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:24 a.m. | 10:34 a.m. | 10 min 0 s | up 12.4% | $5.27, up 3.5% | up 10.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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