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BRKR Shorts Rebuild Ahead of Q1 Earnings

BRKR heads into its May 4 earnings call with short sellers rebuilding positions at pace and the Street uniformly trimming targets — a setup that leaves the stock exposed into the print. Short interest has climbed…

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ThreeD Capital: Insiders Buy as the Stock Drifts Lower

ThreeD Capital Inc. heads into its May 5 earnings event with a quiet but consistent insider buying pattern running counter to a sliding share price — the clearest tension on this micro-cap venture fund right now. The…

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BF.B Deal Falls Apart — and JP Morgan Piles On

Brown-Forman heads into the back half of the week with two blows landing simultaneously: the collapse of merger talks with Pernod Ricard, and a same-day downgrade from JP Morgan. The news broke on the morning of April…

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BRO Analysts Cut Targets After Earnings Stumble

Brown & Brown heads into the week of April 28 with its stock down sharply and a wall of analyst target cuts arriving in the immediate aftermath of a disappointing earnings release. The story this week is the Street's…

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AZTA shorts rebuild ahead of May earnings

Azenta heads into its May 5 earnings call carrying the heaviest short interest it has seen in months, a building bearish footprint that arrived just as the stock broke back down from a sharp one-month rally. Short…

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Broadway Financial beats Q1 estimates ahead of earnings call

BYFC heads into its April 30 earnings call with a fresh set of better-than-expected Q1 results already on the table — and a short book that has been quietly building for weeks. Broadway Financial reported Q1 EPS of…

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Trader NoteJDN

Jayden Resources Drifts Lower After Full-Year Results

JDN filed its full-year results for the period ended December 31, 2025 on April 27, and the market's immediate response was blunt: the stock fell 14.3% the next session to CAD 0.03, its lowest close in recent…

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BTI shorts retreat as stock posts best week in months

BTI enters the final session of April having shed roughly a third of its short interest in a single week — a sharp retreat by bears that coincides with the stock's strongest weekly gain in recent memory. The defining…

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Chili's Beats, but the Stock Doesn't Celebrate

EAT reported Q3 fiscal 2026 results this morning that ticked every box — and the stock still fell 3.7% on the day, extending a 12.6% weekly decline that began before the print. The divergence between a genuinely strong…

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Bridgford Foods: Tightly Held, Lightly Traded

Bridgford Foods Corporation is one of the most family-dominated names on Nasdaq — and this week, the most interesting story isn't about shorts or Street analysts, but about just how tightly the Bridgford family…

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BDN shorts retreat as the stock stages a 25% monthly recovery

BDN enters this week having gained 25% in a month — a sharp reversal that has wrong-footed short sellers and drawn renewed attention to a name the Street has been consistently cautious on. The stock closed at $3.08 on…

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Brady Eyes Honeywell Deal as Shorts Retreat

BRC heads into its May 15 earnings call with a major acquisition freshly announced and short sellers retreating at pace. The biggest story this week is the deal: Brady Corporation disclosed plans to acquire Honeywell's…

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BWTL: A Quiet Counter With Little Short-Seller Interest

Bowlin Travel Centers is one of the quieter corners of the OTC market — a micro-cap specialty retailer trading at $4.00 with next to no short-selling activity and an earnings event on the horizon for May 5. The most…

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Apyx Heads Into May Earnings with Street Firmly Bullish

Apyx Medical enters its May 7 Q1 earnings call with a rare luxury for a small-cap medtech: every analyst on record recommends buying the stock. The stock itself closed the week at $3.67, down 6%, and the positioning…

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JG Boswell Slips Sharply on Thin Volume

BWEL, the thinly-traded California agricultural giant, ended the week down nearly 9% at $521.62 — a steep drop for a stock where a handful of trades can move the needle. The most striking feature of the week is the…

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BSX Bulls Hold Firm as Analysts Trim Targets After Q1 Beat

Boston Scientific heads into its April 30 Q2 guidance call with the Street still firmly in the bull camp — but with a month of price weakness and a wave of target cuts fresh in the market's memory. The stock closed at…

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Boston Sand & Gravel Takes Legal Aim at Its Neighbour

BSND is one of the more unusual names in any US trading universe — a century-old construction materials company trading at $750 a share on the OTC Pink market with a market cap of roughly $74 million and almost no…

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