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Sterling Infrastructure, a construction and engineering group whose E-Infrastructure division builds data-center campuses and semiconductor facilities, reports third-quarter results today against a backdrop of sharply…
John B. Sanfilippo & Son reports first-quarter results today with short sellers holding a modest but meaningful stake, and the borrow market far too loose to suggest any squeeze dynamic is building. Short interest runs…
The St. Joe Company reports Q3 results today with options traders positioned more bullishly than usual and short sellers offering little in the way of a contrarian challenge. The options market is leaning noticeably…
Preformed Line Products reports Q3 results on October 30 against a backdrop of sustained insider selling and a stock that has given back roughly 18% over the past month. The most telling signal heading into the print…
Plexus Corp. reports this morning with the options market still at its most call-heavy extreme of the past year, even after a 9% slide over the past month. The put/call ratio closed at 0.052 on Wednesday, barely above…
Pitney Bowes shares have gained 6% over the past month to $17.44, yet 11.4% of the free float remains sold short, one of the more crowded positions in the office services space. Short interest edged up roughly 2% over…
ORLY enters today's Q3 print with its peer group carrying heavier short-side positioning, making the auto parts retailer one of the less crowded names in its corner of retail. Short interest on O'Reilly now stands at…
NWPX Infrastructure, Inc. heads into its Q3 earnings report today with short sellers maintaining a meaningful position and insider selling running consistently through the autumn. Short interest at 7.7% of the free…
Microsoft trails its closest software peers by about 1.5 percentage points on the week, even as the analyst community spent the past fortnight racing targets sharply higher ahead of the October 29 fiscal Q1…
Short sellers have added to their positions in MTH at an unusually aggressive pace in the days before today's quarterly report. Short interest climbed 26% over the past week to 7.4% of the free float, its highest level…
Lincoln Electric Holdings is reporting Q3 results today with options positioned firmly to the call side and short sellers having retreated sharply over the past month. The options angle is the clearest pre-earnings…
LSB Industries reports Q3 results today with an unusually concentrated ownership structure and a Street debate centred squarely on where nitrogen prices go from here. The most distinctive feature of the setup is the…
KLA Corporation bounced 3.3% on Wednesday to $158.77, but short sellers are not retreating: 24.4 million shares remain borrowed against the float, keeping short interest at 18.5%, one of the heavier bearish positions…
Activist investor Longview has taken a stake in GD, casting a spotlight on the defence giant ahead of its Q3 earnings print today. News this morning notes analysts have been cutting price targets on General Dynamics…
Flowserve heads into its Q3 2026 results today with short sellers trimming positions and the lending market showing no signs of stress, yet analysts have quietly been marking down their targets ahead of the…
EPR Properties heads into its Q3 2026 earnings print with a notable 10% of its float sold short, options markets tilting bullish, and the stock nursing a modest one-month loss even as the experiential REIT sector shows…
Darling Ingredients reports its Q3 results on October 29 with the stock down roughly 10% over the past month and sitting almost 50% below the analyst consensus price target. The gap between the current price and…
COHU carries one of the heavier short positions in its peer group ahead of tonight's earnings release. At 19% of free float, COHU's short interest towers above closely correlated names like LRCX and ENTG, which have…
Short sellers have continued pressing their case against CHDN since the last note eight days ago, and the data now looks more charged heading into today's print. Bearish positioning has extended further. Short interest…
BHC reports Q3 results today with one of the more unusual ownership structures in mid-cap pharma: two active 13D filers holding more than a quarter of the company between them. Paulson & Co. is the largest declared…
