No. 9
Market temperatureSmall Cap Market Map heatHot

Market breadthUp1,309Down1,572Flat74Gap-ups (≥1M shares) 805

No. 9Closed 16:00 ETRanking stored Inside: Top movers A2 Why they moved A3 HOD timing A4 Market map & FESCI A5 Articles A6

Sections of this recap

Lead · largest opening gap

Top gappers on : NCT, SCNI and ELMT

2 of the top 10 had an SEC filing or a trading halt between the previous close and this session’s close.

Rank 1NCTIntercont (Cayman) Ltd

Opening gap
+68.90%
Day
+66.83%
HOD (ET)
0.568207:54 ET
Est. turnover
$106.8M
Gap-ups (≥1M shares)
805

On Monday, September 14, 2026, 805 US-listed common stocks and common-stock ADRs opened above their previous close with at least 1M shares of daily volume. The largest opening gap was NCT at +68.90%.

NCT (Intercont (Cayman) Ltd) opened at 0.5062, +68.90% from the previous close of 0.2997. Its high of day was 0.5682 at 07:54 ET. It closed at 0.5, +66.83% on the day, on an estimated $106.8M of turnover. SEC filings and news were not collected for this session.

Pre-market: 3 of 6 highs of day.

Across the small caps the map tracks, 1,309 advanced and 1,572 declined, with an estimated $16.1B in dollar volume.

Behind it in the ranking: SCNI +40.36% (+46.99% on the day); ELMT +38.79% (+32.80% on the day); SOAR +21.28% (+15.30% on the day); BMM +20.81% (+4.12% on the day); VSME +20.57% (+21.51% on the day); LHSW +15.06% (+29.18% on the day).

2 of the top 10 had an SEC filing or a trading halt between the previous close and this session’s close.

Continued in Why they moved

Stocks in focus

  1. Rank 2SCNI+40.36%Day +46.99%

    Scinai Immunotherapeutics Ltd.

    High of day 3.33 at 04:50 ET; estimated turnover $106.0M.

  2. Rank 3ELMT+38.79%Day +32.80%

    Elmet Group Co.8-K

    CURRENT REPORT

    SEC EDGAR

  3. Rank 4SOAR+21.28%Day +15.30%

    Volato Group, Inc.

    High of day 0.2613 at 16:10 ET; estimated turnover $39.2M.

  4. Rank 5BMM+20.81%Day +4.12%

    Blue Moon Metals Inc.

    High of day 6.74 at 09:32 ET; estimated turnover $13.7M.

  5. Rank 6VSME+20.57%Day +21.51%

    VS MEDIA Holdings Ltd6-K

    Form 6-K filed with the SEC

    SEC EDGAR

Stored Top Gappers ranking and HOD archive

Market map & FESCI

The Small Cap Market Map for this session loads here.Market Map data as of

Small-cap dollar volume (est.)
$16.1B

Top movers

HOD timing

Pre-market: 3 of 6 highs of day

The Gapper HOD Timeline for this session loads here.

  1. Pre-market04:00–09:303 of 6
  2. First 30 minutes09:30–10:001 of 6
  3. Morning10:00–12:001 of 6
  4. Afternoon12:00–16:000 of 6
  5. After hours16:00–20:001 of 6

Learning corner

Lessons and terms behind this session

Retrospective data built after the session from stored records, with links to the original sources. Not real-time, not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy or sell any security.