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Options markets are flashing caution signals in chip stocks ahead of a pivotal earnings week. Micron Technology reports this week. Short sellers have steadily rebuilt positions since early June. ORTEX data shows MU…
Micron Technology is the week's defining event. The memory chip giant reports Q3 2026 earnings Tuesday after the close. Analysts are already bullish — the consensus target just jumped 6.7% to $1,009. Thirty-eight…
Today kicks off a packed earnings week. FDX reports Q4 2026 results after the close today — the logistics giant carries a $77.8B market cap. Cruise operator CCL already dropped its Q2 2026 numbers this morning before…
Analysts lifted targets across several sectors today. Micron Technology saw the boldest move. The consensus target jumped from $945 to $1,009 — a 6.7% increase. The memory chip maker carries a $1.3 trillion market cap.…
Semiconductor and tech insiders filed a flurry of large sales this week. The pattern is hard to ignore. Applied Materials saw its biggest wave of insider selling in recent memory. CEO Gary Dickerson filed sales…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. SHAZ (SharonAI Holdings) grabbed the biggest headline. Its short interest exploded from 12.7% to 54.6% of free float in just seven days. That is a 42-point jump. Cost to borrow…
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed lower Monday as chip stocks failed to hold a rebound. NVIDIA and AI-linked names dragged. Short sellers are already pressing the sector hard. Wolfspeed sits at 103.5% short interest as a…
Pfizer moved to the center of options markets today. The pharma giant's Phase 3 Sigvie-002 trial missed its primary endpoint. The drug failed to beat docetaxel in advanced non-small cell lung cancer. That headline…
Three high-profile names headline a busy earnings week. Markets will be watching closely from Tuesday onward. FDX kicks things off tomorrow, June 23. The logistics giant reports Q4 results after the bell. FedEx carries…
Truist Securities made the boldest analyst call of the day. The firm lifted its target on GLW from $149 to $205 — a 38% jump — while keeping a Hold rating. Corning's $168 billion market cap reflects strong demand for…
Four executives at AMAT filed sales totalling over $79M this week. CEO Gary Dickerson led the wave. He sold more than $41M worth of shares across multiple transactions on June 15–16. Chairman Thomas Iannotti added…
Applied Digital comes into the week of June 22 with a notable shift in tone: the defensive options spike that defined last week's note has faded, yet short sellers show little sign of retreat ahead of the July 21…
Apogee Therapeutics heads into the week with a freshly cut analyst rating colliding against a short position that has grown 18% in a month — the tension between a broadly bullish Street and a determined bear camp is…
GRPN has reversed course this week, falling 4% to $16.19 — erasing nearly all of the prior week's gain — while the borrow market has quietly snapped back to levels that suggest the brief loosening noted last week was a…
AST SpaceMobile has now spent three consecutive weeks in a deteriorating pattern — the stock closed at $80.66 on Thursday, down 17% on the week and nearly 40% below the $133 peak it touched in late May, with short…
Super Micro Computer posted its strongest single-session gain in months on Thursday — up 10.4% to $30.66 — and for the first time in weeks, the data behind the move shows shorts actively stepping back rather than…
Palantir Technologies has now given back 5% over the past month to $128.47, with the stock drifting lower even as the Wolfe Research capitulation last week removed one active bear from the field. The most telling…
$615 million in insider selling filed in just 48 hours. The Walton Family Holdings Trust sold $535 million of WMT on June 16. AMAT insiders — including CEO Gary Dickerson — added another $80 million in sales across…
The week kicks off with semiconductors dominating sentiment. SMCI surged Monday on short covering. Short interest sits at 13.4% of free float — down from a June peak near 15.9%. Options traders are betting on more…
Options markets are flagging a split personality in the AI hardware space. Super Micro Computer surged Monday. Yet short sellers have not given up — SI % FF still sits at ~13.4%, down from a peak near 15.9% in…
