Today is one of the biggest reporting days of the quarter. Apple holds its Q2 2026 earnings call at 5pm ET. The $3.97 trillion company faces tariff pressure on iPhone supply chains. Investors want clarity on demand and any forward guidance cuts. Amgen and Bristol-Myers Squibb also report today. Over 1,700 companies are due to report this week globally.
Brent crude above $110 a barrel is reshaping where traders are placing bets. Bullish options flow has flooded into energy names. ProPetro Holding hit a 52-week low in bearish options sentiment today. The stock is up 81% year-to-date. Energy bulls are firmly in control of the options market right now.
Bears are not sitting still. Wolfspeed saw short interest jump nearly 10 percentage points in a week to 49.9% of free float. The silicon carbide chipmaker remains under heavy pressure. also drew fresh shorts, with SI hitting 25.3% of free float after its recent IPO. Sceptics are questioning its valuation. On the flip side, squeezed shorts with a 28% earnings rally — a painful week for bears in that name.
SanDisk is drawing a flurry of analyst upgrades as its shares surge. Meanwhile, healthcare targets are slipping. GE HealthCare and Regeneron both saw consensus price targets trimmed today. Semiconductor equipment maker KLA bucked the trend with a raised target to $1,742.
CoreWeave backer Magnetar Financial filed over $300M in share sales in mid-to-late April. Meanwhile, Toro Corp CEO Petros Panagiotidis bought nearly $13.8M of TORO stock — a confident bet on dry bulk shipping.
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