Hindsight Markets Small-cap stocks on October 12, 2026
BMBL on October 12, 2026: why it ran
On October 12, 2026, BMBL opened up 0.0% from the previous close of 2.54 and reached 3.98 at 2:30 p.m. ET. The exchange halted it once.
- Previous close
- 2.54
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- 2.54
- Gap at the open
- up 0.0%
- Pre-market high
- 2.53 at 7:22 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 3.98 at 2:30 p.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 2.50
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 4.23 at 6:55 p.m.
- Last trade before 4:00 p.m.
- 3.79
- Volume
- 23.56 million
- Relative volume
- 20.7x
- Float
- 90.45 million shares, from filings as of October 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 131.97 million
Why it ran
News and SEC filings for BMBL published between the previous session's close and the first minute BMBL traded 20% above it, at 2:10 p.m. ET, newest first, from the same feeds the replay shows.
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Dating App Bumble in Advanced Talks to Go Private at $1 Billion Valuation
News via Stock News API
How it traded
Intraday run. It opened up 0.0% at 2.54, then ran from the open to the high of 3.98 in 300 minutes through a halt.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 7:22 a.m. | Pre-market high, 2.53 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: 2.54, up 0.0% from the previous close |
| 2:10 p.m. | News (WSJ): Dating App Bumble in Advanced Talks to Go Private at $1 Billion Valuation |
| 2:10 p.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of 2.54 |
| 2:10 p.m. | Halted: LULD pause (limit up-limit down). Trading resumes at 2:30 p.m. |
| 2:30 p.m. | High of the day to the close, 3.98 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, 3.79, 4.5% 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 less than a minute after the latest news item before it (WSJ, 2:10 p.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 4 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 41,434 in the first 30 minutes (0%), and 23.52 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (100%).
- The halt at 2:10 p.m.: up 21.5% in the 5 minutes into it, reopened at 3.76, up 22.1% from the last trade before it, then up 2.3% over the next 5 minutes.
Halts
| Halted | Resumed | Length | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2:10 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | 20 min 0 s | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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.
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