Edited by Peter Hillerberg1 min readStories are generated from ORTEX data and reviewed by the ORTEX team. How we publish
The week's biggest focus is earnings. General Motors reports Monday and Tesla reports Tuesday. Both carry elevated options activity heading into the prints. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX, which leads Tesla revenue by 43 days, is running 269% above the same quarter last year across all three months. The same dataset leads GM revenue by 15 days and is tracking 133% above year-ago levels. Those are readings from the data, not forecasts. But the direction is hard to ignore for both names.
GM's own consumer credit data adds a caution note. Auto-loan delinquencies were 1.2 standard deviations above the trust peer group as of 29 September, per ORTEX alt data. Honda sits at the opposite end, 0.8 standard deviations below.
In Europe, the MSCI World November review cut-off lands Sunday 19 October. Nine deletions are expected among 13 names still in play. Xero carries a 73% deletion probability and faces $393M of forced selling. It can fall only 1.4% more before crossing the exit line. Zalando sits at 54% deletion odds. Fabrinet saw its deletion probability jump from 8% to 49% overnight, the sharpest single-session move on the ORTEX Radar, with $826M of potential forced selling at stake.
Copart's tender offer for ACV Auctions carries a 93% completion probability. An index announcement is expected today. If confirmed, ACVA exits the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000, triggering a combined $276M of forced selling. The Russell 2000 flow alone represents 3 days of normal volume.
Analysts cut Equifax to Hold at Oppenheimer, leaving it with zero buys and 19 sells. Wolfspeed remains at 83.8% short interest with no shares available to borrow. Citigroup raised its price target on Walt Disney to $140, maintaining its Buy rating.
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