Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 24, 2026
DKI, September 24: a run to $3.11
DKI opened near its previous close, then ran to $3.11 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $2.88, on 4K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.76. It ran to $3.11 by 3:59 p.m.
The close
It closed at $3.10, near 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 $2.76, then ran from the open to the high of $3.11 in 389 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:04 a.m. | Pre-market high, $2.88 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.76, up 6.2% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $3.11 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $3.10, 0.3% below the high |
| 4:14 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.60 |
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
- $2.60
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.76
- Gap at the open
- +6.2%
- Pre-market high
- $2.88 at 4:04 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.11 at 3:59 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $2.55
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.10
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +19.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.20 at 4:16 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 13,383
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 421,977
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 13.2×
- Float
- 856,312 shares, from filings as of September 24, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 1.35 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 3,893 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (1%), 984 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 430,483 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (99%).
- Other days DKI met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 6, the latest on November 3, 2026.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the intraday runners: 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 (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for DKI 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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