Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 15, 2026
VEEA, September 15: news after the close, one halt, and $7.49
VEEA opened up 89% after news, ran to $7.49 through one halt, then gave back most of the run by the close.
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What happened
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Merger news, then a halt
The merger news broke after the close on September 14, with a potential deal with NovaGen. VEEA had closed at $2.29. It opened the 15th at $4.33.
The 9:56:34 halt froze it at $6.23 with a 111K-share bid underneath. It reopened 4% lower at $5.97, and the bid was pulled a second later.
The $7.00 wall
From 9:56 on, a seller offered stock at $7.00. The price stayed under it for hours.
Stop It's 12:29. VEEA is at $6.13. Above, a large ask wall has sat at exactly $7.00 since 9:56, and it peaked at 86,005 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 12:26 p.m. and stop at 12:29 p.m. ET for your call.
At 12:29:25 buyers ate the wall: 69K shares traded at $7.00 in a tenth of a second. That minute hit $7.49, the day's high.
A smaller wall late
After a sharp drop at 1:10, a new ask wall formed at $5.82 by 2:22.
Stop It's 2:33. VEEA is at $5.70. An ask wall has sat at $5.82 since 2:22, peaking at 66,027 shares. Would you buy here?
Press play: the real Level 2, tape and chart run from 2:30 p.m. and stop at 2:33 p.m. ET for your call.
Buyers ate it at 2:33:37, taking 16K shares in under a second. It reached $6.00 a few minutes later, then slipped to $5.56. It closed at $5.71.
What to take from it: On this day, buyers ate both ask walls, and each pop faded soon after.
Replay VEEA's day
It starts at 9:41 a.m. ET with the real Level 2, time and sales and chart, from the same feed the replay plays, stops at 9:44 a.m. and asks what you would do. Or press Play on any moment in How it traded.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap, run, gave some back. It gapped up 89.1% to $4.33 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $7.49 in 179 minutes through a halt, then gave back 56% of that move by 4:00 p.m., trading at $5.71, still above the open.
| Time (ET) | What happened | Watch it |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 4:42 p.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Veea Inc. and NovaGen announce potential merger to launch an Edge AI-Powered Global Health Platform | |
| 4:00 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $2.29 | |
| 4:36 a.m. | Volume since 4:00 a.m. passes the whole float, 1.85 million shares | |
| 8:47 a.m. | Pre-market high, $4.53 | |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $4.33, up 89.1% from the previous close | |
| 12:29 p.m. | High of the day to the close, $7.49 | |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $5.71, 23.8% 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
- $2.29
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $4.33
- Gap at the open
- +89.1%
- Pre-market high
- $4.53 at 8:47 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.49 at 12:29 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $3.32
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $5.71
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +149.3%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $5.99 at 5:21 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 75.52 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 2.49 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 107.9×
- Float
- 1.85 million shares, from filings as of September 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 3.11 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 11 hours 18 minutes after the latest news item before it (GlobeNewsWire, Sep 14, 4:42 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 20.30 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (26%), 13.05 million in the first 30 minutes (17%), and 44.65 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (57%).
- Float rotation, the volume since 4 a.m. against the float of 1.85 million shares: past it once at 4:36 a.m., twice at 6:32 a.m., three times at 7:20 a.m.
- Other days VEEA met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 7, the latest on October 13, 2026.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: 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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed | Watch it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:56 a.m. | 10:01 a.m. | 5 min 0 s | up 25.6% | $5.97, down 4.2% | up 3.4% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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.
Trade this day
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