Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 12, 2026
BMBL, October 12: news, one halt, and $3.98
BMBL opened near its previous close after news, then ran to $3.98 through one halt during the session.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 2:10 p.m. Before the bell it reached $2.53, on 4 shares.
The open
It opened near its previous close, at $2.54. It ran to $3.98 by 2:30 p.m.
The halts
Trading stopped once, at 2:10 p.m. The biggest jump was the reopen after 2:10 p.m.: 22% above the last trade before it.
The close
It closed at $3.79, near 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 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 |
| 2:30 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'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
- $2.54
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $2.54
- Gap at the open
- +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
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $3.79
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +49.4%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $4.23 at 6:55 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 21.84 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.72 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 20.7×
- Float
- 90.45 million shares, from filings as of October 12, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 131.97 million
- 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%).
- Other days BMBL met the small-cap rule in our recaps: 1, the latest on October 13, 2026.
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 (1)
| Halted | Resumed | Length | The 5 minutes into it | Reopened at, against the last trade | The 5 minutes after | Reason in the feed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2:10 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. | 20 min 0 s | up 21.5% | $3.76, up 22.1% | up 2.3% | LULD pause (limit up-limit down) |
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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