Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 31, 2026
MOBX, August 31: news and $1.58
MOBX opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $1.58 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 9:40 a.m. Before the bell it reached $1.20, on 238K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $1.15. It ran to $1.58 by 10:42 a.m.
The close
It closed at $1.32, 16% 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 3.6% at $1.15, then ran from the open to the high of $1.58 in 72 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Mobix Labs' Pending Drone Acquisition, Vision Aerial, Projects 93% Revenue Growth |
| 8:45 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Vision Aerial Begins Production of American-Built Vulcan Drone Family Ahead of Acquisition by Mobix Labs (Nasdaq: MOBX) |
| 8:45 a.m. | Pre-market high, $1.20 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $1.15, up 3.6% from the previous close |
| 9:40 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Mobix Labs (Nasdaq: MOBX) Drone Acquisition Target Vision Aerial Opens Vulcan Orders, Projects 93% Revenue Growth in 2027 |
| 10:23 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $1.11 |
| 10:42 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $1.58 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $1.32, 16.5% 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.
- $1.15
- Gap at the open
- +3.6%
- Pre-market high
- $1.20 at 8:45 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.58 at 10:42 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $1.08
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $1.32
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +18.9%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $1.35 at 6:48 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.54 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 92,719
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 19.0×
- Float
- 15.33 million shares, from filings as of August 31, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 16.85 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 43 minutes after the latest news item before it (Business Wire, 9:40 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 238,439 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (5%), 477,686 in the first 30 minutes (10%), and 3.92 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (85%).
- Other days MOBX met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 2, the latest on October 6, 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 MOBX 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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