Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 21, 2026
SCNI, September 21: a 6-K and a pre-market spike to $2.25
SCNI spiked to $2.25 before the open after a 6-K, then gave much of it back in the session.
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What happened
Before the open
The news came first: a 6-K at 7:00 a.m. Before the bell it reached $2.25, on 7.1M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.71.
The close
It closed at $1.68, 25% 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 44.2% from $1.56 to $2.25 at 7:24 a.m.. It opened up 9.6% at $1.71 and traded at $1.68 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | News (PRNewsWire): Scinai Regains Compliance with Nasdaq Minimum Bid Price Requirement |
| 7:00 a.m. | SEC filing 6-K: REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER |
| 7:01 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.56 |
| 7:05 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 703,186 shares |
| 7:24 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.25 |
| 7:24 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $2.25 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.71, up 9.6% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.68, 25.3% 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
- $1.56
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.71
- Gap at the open
- +9.6%
- Pre-market high
- $2.25 at 7:24 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.25 at 7:24 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.53
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.68
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +7.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.78 at 5:58 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 8.66 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 128,715
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 6.7×
- Float
- 703,186 shares, from filings as of September 21, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 706,586
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest SEC filing before it (6-K, 7:00 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 7.07 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (80%), 704,206 in the first 30 minutes (8%), and 1.01 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (12%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 703,186 shares: past it once at 7:05 a.m., twice at 7:10 a.m., three times at 7:17 a.m.
- Other days SCNI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 4, the latest on October 13, 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 SCNI 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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