Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on September 15, 2026
VRA, September 15: an 8-K and $4.15
VRA opened up 19% after an 8-K, ran to $4.15, and held most of the move into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: an 8-K at 8:13 a.m. Before the bell it reached $3.94, on 2M shares.
The open
It opened up 19%, at $3.62. It ran to $4.15 by 3:46 p.m.
The close
It closed at $4.09, near its high.
What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
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'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
- $3.04
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $3.62
- Gap at the open
- +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
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $4.09
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +34.5%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.47 at 5:39 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 4.46 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 462,752
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 85.9×
- Float
- 19.57 million shares, from filings as of September 15, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 28.44 million
- 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.
On the day's lists: the pre-market gappers, gainers, intraday runners. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the pre-market gappers: price $2 to $20, up 10% or more, relative volume 5× or more, float under 20 million shares, 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 VRA 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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