Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 23, 2026
NCPL, September 23: a run to $1.40
NCPL opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.40 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.05, on 103K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.03. It ran to $1.40 by 1:33 p.m.
The close
It closed at $1.07, 23% 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 up 6.2% at $1.03, then ran from the open to the high of $1.40 in 243 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5:52 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.05 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.03, up 6.2% from the previous close |
| 9:41 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $0.97 |
| 1:33 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.40 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.07, 22.9% below the high |
| 6:11 p.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 6.71 million shares |
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
- $0.97
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.03
- Gap at the open
- +6.2%
- Pre-market high
- $1.05 at 5:52 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.40 at 1:33 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $0.9001
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.07
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +10.8%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.94 at 5:09 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.81 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.19 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 0.4×
- Float
- 6.71 million shares, from filings as of September 23, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 7.85 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 102,675 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 676,694 in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 6.22 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (89%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 6.71 million shares: past it once at 6:11 p.m.
- 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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