Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026
CISS, August 27: news and a pre-market spike to $4.00
CISS spiked to $4.00 before the open after news, then gave much of it back in the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 6:30 a.m. Before the bell it reached $4.00, on 5.3M shares.
The open
It opened down 14%, at $2.53.
The close
It closed at $2.12, 47% under its high.
What to take from it: The move happened before the bell. The regular session never got back to the pre-market high.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Pre-market spike. Before the open it spiked 36.5% from $2.93 to $4.00 at 6:49 a.m.. It opened down 13.7% at $2.53 and traded at $2.12 at 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:30 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): C3is Inc. reports second quarter and six months 2026 financial and operating results |
| 6:40 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.93 |
| 6:49 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.00 |
| 6:49 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $4.00 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $2.53, down 13.7% from the previous close |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $2.12, 47.0% 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
- $2.93
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.53
- Gap at the open
- −13.7%
- Pre-market high
- $4.00 at 6:49 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $4.00 at 6:49 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.96
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $2.12
- Change at 4 p.m.
- −27.6%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $2.20 at 4:53 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 6.59 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 138,047
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 9.2×
- Float
- not available
- Shares outstanding
- not available
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 10 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, 6:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 5.29 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (79%), 181,754 in the first 30 minutes (3%), and 1.26 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (19%).
- Other days CISS met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on September 21, 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 CISS 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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