Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 29, 2026
NAUT, September 29: a run to $1.59
NAUT opened near its previous close, then ran to $1.59 during the session.
What happened
Before the open
We found no news or filing before the move. Before the bell it reached $1.36, on 1.7M shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.19. It ran to $1.59 by 1:02 p.m.
The close
It closed at $1.36, 15% 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 7.2% at $1.19, then ran from the open to the high of $1.59 in 212 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:43 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.11 |
| 6:44 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.36 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.19, up 7.2% from the previous close |
| 1:02 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.59 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.36, 14.7% 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
- $1.11
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $1.19
- Gap at the open
- +7.2%
- Pre-market high
- $1.36 at 6:44 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.59 at 1:02 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.06
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.36
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +22.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.55 at 6:01 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 7.77 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 296,567
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 17.8×
- Float
- 80.28 million shares, from filings as of September 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 127.26 million
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 1.71 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (21%), 596,372 in the first 30 minutes (7%), and 5.77 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (71%).
- Other days NAUT met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 9, 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 NAUT 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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