Recaps · September 23, 2026

VRME, September 23: a quiet day to $1.19, then a $1.57 after-hours spike

• Small cap
• Momentum
• Main move: after hours
• Afternoon run
• Thin regular session
• Faded after the spike

Float

11.57 million shares

Volume

5.28 million shares

Previous close

$1.04

Open

$1.04 (up 0.0%)

High

$1.19 at 1:56 p.m.

Close

$1.14

The day before

On September 22, VRME opened at $1.30 and hit $1.38. It fell to a low of $0.9132, and the official close was $1.04.

At 8:10 a.m. that day, a Business Wire headline went out: VerifyMe highlighted the benefits of a proposed Figure OPEN listing and urged shareholders to vote "FOR" Proposal 6. There was no new news on the 23rd in our data.

Pre-market: a tight range

Trading was thin. The first trade was at $1.01 at 4:00 a.m. and the stock stayed mostly between $1.00 and $1.05. It touched $1.05 at 4:11 a.m. and again at 8:51 a.m.

At 6:55 a.m. it slipped under $1.00 and hit $0.9785 at 6:56. It was back at $1.02 by 7:11. Pre-market volume was 69,293 shares.

The open and a morning dip

It opened at $1.04, the same as the previous close. It touched $1.05 in the first minute and was back at $1.02 by 9:31.

Then it slid. At 9:38 it hit $0.9724, the low so far. It bounced to $1.05 by 9:45 and reached $1.07 at 10:00. That fizzled. At 10:23 it touched $1.00 again.

Midday and early afternoon

At 11:02 it traded 9,059 shares at $1.03. By 11:10 it was at $1.14, and the 11:11 minute traded 16,842 shares. It touched $1.14 again at 11:26. Then it drifted down to $1.07 by midday, with long gaps between trades.

At 1:17 p.m. one minute traded 23,682 shares and the price dipped to $1.06. By 1:40 it was back at $1.08.

Here's what happened. In the 1:43 minute it jumped to $1.14 and closed the minute at $1.13. The next minute traded 13,601 shares. It climbed to $1.16 at 1:47 and $1.17 at 1:51.

At 1:56 p.m. it hit $1.19, the high of the regular session. It touched $1.19 again at 1:58 and 1:59.

The fade into the close

The top did not hold. At 2:01 it was at $1.16, and by 2:16 it was at $1.14. It chopped between about $1.12 and $1.19 through the afternoon.

The 3:59 minute traded 27,348 shares. It closed at $1.14, 4% under the $1.19 high.

Regular-session volume was 690,568 shares, about 6% of the 11.57 million float.

After hours: the real move

The after-hours session was far busier than the regular session. It started around $1.12 and crept up to $1.25 by 4:28 p.m.

At 4:31 it jumped to $1.37, and the 4:32 minute traded 189,786 shares. That one minute was more than a quarter of the whole regular session.

It ran in waves. At 4:54 p.m. it hit $1.57, the high of the whole day, on 444,307 shares in that single minute. That was up 38% from the $1.14 close.

It fell back to $1.20 by 5:07 and chopped between $1.20 and $1.35 after that. The last trades were at $1.27 around 7:59 p.m. After hours traded 4,517,380 shares, more than six times the regular session.

What to take from it

• A quiet regular session can hide the real move. Here the day's high of $1.57 came after the close, on far more volume than the entire regular session.
• A thin book makes the screen price optimistic. Near the $1.19 high, a 5,000-share buy cost $76 more than the quoted $1.18.
• Slow stretches can end suddenly. After a quiet stretch around $1.08, the stock went to $1.19 in about 13 minutes.