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Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 27, 2026

CISS, August 27: news and a pre-market spike to $4.00

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CISS spiked to $4.00 before the open after news, then gave much of it back in the session.

News via Stock News API

News$4.00$2.93$1.964 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
CISS on August 27, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

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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