Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on August 13, 2026
RRGB, August 13: news and $10.95
RRGB opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $10.95 during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 1:07 a.m. Before the bell it reached $8.54, on 2K shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $8.48. It ran to $10.95 by 9:59 a.m.
The close
It closed at $9.89, 10% under its high.
What to take from it: The move came during the session, not at the open.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Intraday run. It opened up 3.9% at $8.48, then ran from the open to the high of $10.95 in 29 minutes.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:21 p.m. | News (Zacks Investment Research): Red Robin (RRGB) Misses Q2 Earnings Estimates |
| Aug 12, 10:06 p.m. | News (MarketBeat): Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Q2 Earnings Call Highlights |
| 1:07 a.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (RRGB) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript |
| 5:01 a.m. | Pre-market high, $8.54 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.48, up 3.9% from the previous close |
| 9:33 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $8.16 |
| 9:59 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $10.95 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $9.89, 9.7% 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
- $8.16
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.48
- Gap at the open
- +3.9%
- Pre-market high
- $8.54 at 5:01 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $10.95 at 9:59 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.17
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $9.89
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +21.2%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $10.10 at 7:45 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 996,388
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 24,201
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 8.7×
- Float
- 14.98 million shares, from filings as of August 13, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 18.90 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 8 hours 25 minutes after the latest news item before it (Seeking Alpha, 1:07 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 2,149 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (0%), 291,183 in the first 30 minutes (29%), and 727,257 in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (71%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day RRGB met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the gainers. It is here because it met the small-cap rule on the gainers: 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 RRGB 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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