Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 5, 2026
BLMN, August 5: news and a gap that held
BLMN opened up 36% after news and held near that level into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:18 a.m. Before the bell it reached $12.25, on 319K shares.
The open
It opened up 36%, at $12.10.
The close
It closed at $11.84, 6% under its high.
What to take from it: The gap was the move. After the open it went sideways.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and hold. It gapped up 35.7% to $12.10 at the open and held near or above it, trading at $11.84 at 4:00 p.m.
| 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's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $8.92
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $12.10
- Gap at the open
- +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
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $11.84
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +32.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $11.99 at 4:05 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 5.62 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 465,465
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 5.9×
- Float
- 84.51 million shares, from filings as of August 5, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 85.61 million
- 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.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for BLMN that day.
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
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