Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on September 23, 2026
KIDZ on September 23, 2026: why it ran
On September 23, 2026, KIDZ opened down 6.2% from the previous close of 2.98 and reached 4.44 at 7:14 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 2.98
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.79
- Gap at the open
- down 6.2%
- Pre-market high
- 4.44 at 7:14 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.44 at 7:14 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.55
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 3.09 at 5:14 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 2.80
- Volume
- 4.89 million
- Relative volume
- 67.4x
- Float
- 348,406 shares, from filings as of September 23, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 348,406
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for KIDZ published between the previous session's close and the first minute KIDZ traded 20% above it, at 7:05 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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KIDZ AI Secures Open Compute Project Membership to Advance Enterprise GPU Cloud Deployment and AI Data Center Infrastructure
News via Stock News API
How it traded
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:05 a.m. | News (Accesswire): KIDZ AI Secures Open Compute Project Membership to Advance Enterprise GPU Cloud Deployment and AI Data Center Infrastructure |
| 7:05 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.98 |
| 7:06 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 348,406 shares |
| 7:14 a.m. | Pre-market high, 4.44 |
| 7:14 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 4.44 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.79, down 6.2% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 2.80, 36.9% below the high |
The shape is a fixed rule, not a judgement: gapped 10% or more at the open, ran 10% or more from the open to the high, and faded if it gave back 30% or more of that move by the close.
The day in numbers
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came less than a minute after the latest news item before it (Accesswire, 7:05 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4.37 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (89%), 99,034 in the first 30 minutes (2%), and 417,536 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (9%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 348,406 shares: past it once at 7:06 a.m., twice at 7:07 a.m., three times at 7:09 a.m.
- Other days KIDZ met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 18, 2026.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for KIDZ that day.
On this date the LULD plan ran under Amendment 18, in force from February 24, 2020: no band doubling at the open, and the closing doubling only for Tier 1 stocks and Tier 2 stocks whose previous close was at or below three dollars. See LULD halts or work out a band with the LULD calculator.
Trade this day
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