This is one of the busiest earnings weeks of the year. Nearly 2,000 companies report globally between May 6 and May 12. The biggest names arrive Thursday. PLTR reports on AI-driven government contract growth. DIS faces scrutiny on streaming margins and theme park trends. AMD must prove it can challenge NVDA for AI accelerator share. Analysts lifted AMD's consensus target to $325.54 ahead of the print.
Semiconductor names are commanding options markets. Sandisk and Micron lead bullish positive-bets flow. NVDA and AMD sit right behind them. Shorts in are retreating as the stock surges into its earnings event. is trending overnight, drawing fresh attention across chip-adjacent names.
Short sellers are not standing down. Wolfspeed carries 51.6% SI % of Free Float. Borrow availability has collapsed to just 0.8%. GameStop SI jumped 3.5 points to 17.1% in a week. On the options side, Meta and Microsoft are attracting heavy put activity. Meta is down 7.8% year-to-date. Microsoft has shed 14.3%.
French luxury house Kering reports today. China spending weakness remains a headwind. Bill Ackman filed a $15.7M personal purchase of Pershing Square stock on April 30. That buy signals direct confidence. On the sell side, Pentwater Capital filed over $1 billion in Avis Budget sales across two days in late April — a rare, concentrated exit from a single position.
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