NEW YORK, January 1, 2026, 5:33 PM ET — Market closed.
- Rigetti Computing shares closed down 1.2% on Wednesday at $22.15, with U.S. markets shut Thursday for New Year’s Day. 1
- The stock has slid about 18% from a late-December peak, underscoring the sector’s sharp swings into year-end. 2
- Traders head into Friday’s reopening with an eye on early-January U.S. data and the company’s next update cadence. 3
Rigetti Computing shares fell 1.2% on Wednesday, the final trading day of 2025, closing at $22.15. The stock was last up about 0.6% in after-hours trading at $22.28, market data showed, as U.S. exchanges stayed closed on Thursday for New Year’s Day. 1
The move matters because Rigetti has become a bellwether for “pure-play” quantum computing stocks — smaller companies whose main business is quantum hardware and services — where liquidity can be thin and sentiment can flip quickly around year-end. That dynamic can amplify routine flows such as tax positioning and options-related trading. 2
It also lands as investors reopen risk books for 2026 after Wall Street ended the year’s final session lower in holiday-thin trading, a Reuters report showed. Broader moves in high-growth technology often spill into quantum names, which have traded as a higher-volatility subset of the AI-and-computing theme. 4
Rigetti traded between $21.93 and $22.67 in Wednesday’s session on volume of about 23.2 million shares, according to price data. 2
Peers were mixed-to-lower on the day: IonQ fell 0.9% and D-Wave Quantum slipped 0.4%, according to market data.
There was no fresh company-specific filing in the past two days to explain the move. Rigetti’s most recent SEC submission on EDGAR was a Form 4 dated Dec. 10, the database showed. 5
Rigetti, based in Berkeley, California, builds superconducting quantum processors and offers access through cloud services, targeting customers in government, research and enterprise. Quantum computers use “qubits” — the basic unit of quantum information — to tackle certain problems that overwhelm classical machines, though many commercial applications remain in early stages. 6
Investors continue to focus on hardware roadmaps and error-rate progress. In an August SEC filing, CEO Dr. Subodh Kulkarni said, “We intend to continue this momentum with our 100+ qubit system planned for the end of the year.” 6
The stock’s chart shows how quickly that optimism can be repriced. Rigetti has retreated roughly 18% since Dec. 22, when it closed at $26.88 after touching an intraday high near $27.67, based on historical price data. 2
Before the next session, traders will gauge whether Friday’s reopening brings fresh liquidity after the holiday shutdown. NYSE’s calendar shows normal trading resumes after the Jan. 1 closure. 7
Macro releases could also set the tone for speculative tech. A New York Fed calendar lists weekly jobless claims at 8:30 a.m. ET and construction spending at 10:00 a.m. ET on Jan. 2, followed by the ISM manufacturing report on Jan. 5 at 10:00 a.m. ET — data that can sway rates and risk appetite. 3
On the company side, the next hard catalyst is timing: Rigetti last filed a 10-Q and an 8-K on Nov. 10, and its most recent annual report (10-K) was filed in early March last year, SEC records show. In the near term, traders are watching support around the $22 area and the Dec. 31 low at $21.93; a break below that level would leave little chart support until the late-December lows. 5
