— Why it moved
Why KUST Stock Round-Tripped Today — June 25, 2026
A $5.5M asset sale sent a 627,000-share float from $1.42 to $3.34 before the bell, and by the close every cent of it was gone.
What moved it
Kustom signed a binding deal to sell its legacy video solutions business to Cycurion for up to $5.5M — $1.25M cash at closing, a $4.25M promissory note at 7%, plus warrants. It leaves the company as a pure live-events and ticketing play. On a market cap this small, that headline was enough to double the stock before sunrise.
The mechanics
The float is 627K shares. Not million — thousand. Day volume ran about 137 times the float. With that structure the premarket tape went vertical in fifteen minutes and unwound just as fast.
Numbers
- Cap: ~$1.8M at the alert / float: 627K shares
- Volume: 86M (~250x the 30-day avg)
- Prev close: $1.42 → closed $1.44
- 52w range: $1.35–$22.40
Where it ended up
Stock Pulse pinged at 07:37 ET, premarket, $2.88. The verified top was $3.34 five minutes later — our feed logged $3.41, but the bars never traded there, so we're using the tape. The regular session never got back above the alert: $2.53 was the best print after the bell rang, and it bled to $1.44 by the close.
Reality check
- Alert to close was minus 50%. The whole tradeable window was five premarket minutes on a thin tape.
- The consideration is mostly a promissory note, not cash — and the chart did a complete round trip to the prior close.
- This already happened. It's a breakdown of why it ran, not a reason to buy it.