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VRA, September 15: an 8-K and $4.15

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VRA opened up 19% after an 8-K, ran to $4.15, and held most of the move into the close.

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8-KNews$4.47$3.044 a.m.9:30noon4 p.m.8 p.m.
VRA on September 15, 2026, one-minute bars, New York time. Bands: halts. Flags: the news or filing before the move. Dotted line: the previous close. Shaded: before the 9:30 a.m. open and after the 4:00 p.m. close.

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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