Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on September 15, 2026
VRA on September 15, 2026: why it ran
On September 15, 2026, VRA opened up 19.1% from the previous close of 3.04 and reached 4.15 at 3:46 p.m. ET. The exchange did not halt it.
- Previous close
- 3.04
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 3.62
- Gap at the open
- up 19.1%
- Pre-market high
- 3.94 at 8:20 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.15 at 3:46 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.04
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.47 at 5:39 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 4.09
- Volume
- 4.92 million
- Relative volume
- 85.9x
- Float
- 19.57 million shares, from filings as of September 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 28.44 million
- Halts
- none in the halt feed
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for VRA published between the previous session's close and the first minute VRA traded 20% above it, at 8:20 a.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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8-K
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Vera Bradley Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Results
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Gap and go. It gapped up 19.1% to 3.62 at the open, ran from the open to the high of 4.15 in 376 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 11% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. | News (GlobeNewsWire): Vera Bradley Announces Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2027 Results |
| 8:13 a.m. | SEC filing 8-K: 8-K |
| 8:20 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 3.04 |
| 8:20 a.m. | Pre-market high, 3.94 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 3.62, up 19.1% from the previous close |
| 3:46 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 4.15 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 4.09, 1.4% 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 6 minutes after the latest SEC filing before it (8-K, 8:13 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2.01 million shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (41%), 697,895 in the first 30 minutes (14%), and 2.21 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (45%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day VRA met the small-cap rule.
Halts
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for VRA 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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