Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on August 5, 2026
BLMN on August 5, 2026: why it ran
On August 5, 2026, BLMN opened up 35.7% from the previous close of 8.92 and reached 12.63 at 10:43 a.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 8.92
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 12.10
- Gap at the open
- up 35.7%
- Pre-market high
- 12.25 at 9:28 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 12.63 at 10:43 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 8.39
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 11.99 at 4:05 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 11.84
- Volume
- 6.08 million
- Relative volume
- 5.9x
- Float
- 84.51 million shares, from filings as of August 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 85.61 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for BLMN published between the previous session's close and the first minute BLMN traded 20% above it, at 7:20 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Bloomin' Brands Raises Earnings View on Higher Profit, Check Size
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FORM 8-K
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Bloomin' Brands Announces 2026 Q2 Financial Results
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Gap and fade. It gapped up 35.7% to 12.10 at the open and traded below the open by 4:00 p.m., at 11.84.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 6:30 a.m. | News (Business Wire): Bloomin' Brands Announces 2026 Q2 Financial Results |
| 6:31 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: FORM 8-K |
| 7:18 a.m. | News (WSJ): Bloomin' Brands Raises Earnings View on Higher Profit, Check Size |
| 7:20 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 8.92 |
| 9:28 a.m. | Pre-market high, 12.25 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 12.10, up 35.7% from the previous close |
| 10:43 a.m. | High of the day to the close, 12.63 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 11.84, 6.2% below the high |
The shape is a fixed rule, not a judgement: gapped 10% or more at the open, ran 10% or more from the open to the high, and faded if it gave back 30% or more of that move by the close.
The day in numbers
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 minutes after the latest news item before it (WSJ, 7:18 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 318,854 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (5%), 1.30 million in the first 30 minutes (21%), and 4.46 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (73%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day BLMN met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for BLMN that day.
On this date the LULD plan ran under Amendment 18, in force from February 24, 2020: no band doubling at the open, and the closing doubling only for Tier 1 stocks and Tier 2 stocks whose previous close was at or below three dollars. See LULD halts or work out a band with the LULD calculator.
Trade this day
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