The week's dominant theme is semiconductors — and the bulls are firmly in control. Micron Technology leads options flow for positive bets over seven days. It is up 240% year-to-date. SanDisk Corporation is up an even more striking 591% YTD. Both stocks continue to attract call buyers, not hedgers. NVIDIA and AMD round out the top five for bullish options volume as AI infrastructure demand keeps premiums elevated.
Analyst opinion on chips is less unanimous. Applied Materials received conflicting coverage this week. RBC raised its target to $600. B. Riley cut its target to $700 from $790. Both maintain Buy — but the $100 gap signals real uncertainty in equipment.
Retail dominates the calendar. and both report Wednesday morning. also releases Q4 results the same day. Weak Asia-Pacific demand has weighed on the beauty giant. Its guidance will be closely watched. reports Wednesday afternoon — it carries 85.2% short interest as a percentage of free float and zero shares available to borrow.
Bill Gates filed an $82M purchase of Republic Services this week — 377,866 shares at around $216 each. That is one of the largest disclosed buys in recent memory. On the other side, a Twilio board member filed a $123.5M sale of TWLO shares. That is the single biggest insider disposal filed this week.
Swiss plumbing group Geberit reports H1 results Tuesday. It is one of the few major European results due this week amid a quieter continental calendar.
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