No. 16
Market temperatureSmall Cap Market Map heatVery hot

Market breadthUp632Down2,272Flat67Gap-ups (≥1M shares) 558

No. 16Closed 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 : BENF, WHLR and IPDN

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

Rank 1BENFBeneficient

Opening gap
+442.45%
Day
+438.73%
HOD (ET)
3.3916:00 ET
Est. turnover
$598.5M
Gap-ups (≥1M shares)
558

On Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 558 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 BENF at +442.45%.

BENF (Beneficient) opened at 2.92, +442.45% from the previous close of 0.5383. Its high of day was 3.39 at 16:00 ET. It closed at 2.90, +438.73% on the day, on an estimated $598.5M of turnover. SEC filings and news were not collected for this session.

BFRG (BullFrog AI Holdings, Inc.) opened at 0.7816, +30.27% from the previous close of 0.6. Its high of day was 1.05 at 14:32 ET. It closed at 0.95, +58.33% on the day, on an estimated $166.7M of turnover.

HCTI (Healthcare Triangle, Inc.) opened at 1.11, +28.37% from the previous close of 0.8647. Its high of day was 3.15 at 10:01 ET. It closed at 0.9111, +5.37% on the day, on an estimated $76.9M of turnover.

Pre-market: 5 of 10 highs of day.

Across the small caps the map tracks, 632 advanced and 2,272 declined, with an estimated $19.6B in dollar volume.

Behind it in the ranking: MSS +32.05% (+34.62% on the day); BFRG +30.27% (+58.33% on the day); HCTI +28.37% (+5.37% on the day); CAPS +26.33% (+14.17% on the day).

Behind it in the ranking: CAPS +26.33% (+14.17% on the day).

1 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 2WHLR+178.34%Day +190.91%

    Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc.

    High of day 8.71 at 10:14 ET; estimated turnover $604.4M.

  2. Rank 3IPDN+77.31%Day +38.97%

    Professional Diversity Network, Inc.

    High of day 11.24 at 04:48 ET; estimated turnover $196.8M.

  3. Rank 4VTGN+53.58%Day +46.54%

    Vistagen Therapeutics, Inc.

    High of day 0.5476 at 10:04 ET; estimated turnover $241.0M.

  4. Rank 5DCOY+41.94%Day +24.19%

    Decoy Therapeutics Inc.

    High of day 5.22 at 07:07 ET; estimated turnover $116.4M.

  5. Rank 6MSS+32.05%Day +34.62%

    Maison Solutions Inc.

    High of day 3.17 at 09:04 ET; estimated turnover $231.2M.

  6. Rank 10GRML+22.51%Day -20.92%

    Greenland Mines Ltd424B5

    PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT

    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.)
$19.6B

Top movers

Held or faded

3 of 10 closed at or above the open

Stored Top Gappers ranking

HOD timing

Pre-market: 5 of 10 highs of day

The Gapper HOD Timeline for this session loads here.

  1. Pre-market04:00–09:305 of 10
  2. First 30 minutes09:30–10:000 of 10
  3. Morning10:00–12:003 of 10
  4. Afternoon12:00–16:001 of 10
  5. After hours16:00–20:001 of 10

Learning corner

Lessons and terms behind this session

Method

Top Gappers Calendar default method: US-listed common stocks and common-stock ADRs, daily volume ≥ 1,000,000 shares, opening gap highest first

Every session in September 2026

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.