Analysts raised targets across several names this week. Three moves stand out.
Lumentum leads the upgrades. LITE saw its consensus target jump to $1,144. That is up from $1,126 just days ago. Short interest sits at 11.3% of free float. Availability is extremely high at 1,459% of SI. The risk to shorts is growing as analyst sentiment firms.
Super Micro gets a bump. SMCI received a target price increase to $40.25. The server maker still carries 17.4% short interest — one of the higher readings in tech. Cost to borrow remains cheap at 0.45%. Bears are betting against it. Analysts are not.
Gold miners catch a bid. NEM — the world's largest gold miner at a $123bn market cap — got a target lift to $131.39. Analysts remain overwhelmingly bearish in consensus terms. Yet price targets keep creeping higher. That gap between ratings and targets tells a conflicted story.
Elsewhere, DELL targets edged up to $501. TGT also got a small boost. was the lone downgrade among the HP pair, slipping while rose.
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