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BELF.A enters its October 29 earnings report with the stock down 11% over the past month to $180.15, even after clawing back roughly 2% on Tuesday, leaving investors wondering whether the pullback has reset the bar or…
ALRS heads into its October 29 earnings report with short sellers backing away and options traders leaning decidedly bullish. The clearest positioning signal is in the options market. The put/call ratio has dropped to…
Albany International reports its latest quarterly results on October 29 with the lending market signalling remarkably little bearish conviction heading into the print. Short interest is neither large nor building. At…
The clearest theme in today's analyst activity is power. VST and NRG both had their target prices cut by CIBC. Vistra's target fell to $181 from $201. NRG's dropped to $159 from $173. Both retain buy ratings, but the…
EPAC heads into its October 29 fiscal Q1 earnings call with shorts in retreat, borrow costs negligible, and retail curiosity running at an unusual high. Short sellers have been stepping back from the name. Short…
AVTR reports Q3 results on October 30, arriving with short positions at their lowest level in the observed dataset and options traders suddenly buying more protection than at any point in months. The options shift is…
VICI Properties sits as one of the more lightly shorted names in its peer group heading into Thursday's print, but that picture shifted meaningfully this week. Short interest rose to 3.2% of the free float on October…
CVNA has nearly half its free float sold short going into Thursday's print, yet options traders have turned measurably less defensive over the past two weeks. Short interest is running at 47.4% of the free float,…
Invitation Homes reports Q3 results today with put/call positioning still skewed defensively and nearly every analyst who has touched the stock in October having lowered their price target. Options demand for downside…
Smurfit Westrock, the Dublin-domiciled containerboard giant formed from the 2024 merger of Smurfit Kappa and WestRock, reports Q3 results on Thursday with its shares down 13% over the past month to $40.33, a sharper…
Antero Resources reports Q3 earnings today, arriving at the print on the back of a 9% weekly gain and a 20% advance over the past month, a move that has lifted the stock well above where most of its covering analysts…
Short sellers in AWK have continued adding to positions in the days since the last preview, with short interest now at 7.6% of the free float as of October 27. That is up from 7.3% five days ago, and up 15% over the…
AerCap Holdings gained 5.1% over the past week, more than three times the median 1.6% advance among its closest correlated peers, while its short interest simultaneously fell 31% to 1.54% of the free float. Among that…
The most striking insider activity in the latest filings centres on a cluster of Hong Kong-listed stocks, with trades reported on 8 September 2026. Li Ning Company bought back aggressively through its controlling…
Among its closest correlated peers, AMP is one of the softer performers heading into today's third-quarter print. Shares fell 0.1% over the past week, while the median move across its nearest comparables was a gain of…
Encompass Health reports third-quarter results today with options traders running the most defensive positioning seen in months, even as short sellers face no meaningful friction in the borrow market. The put/call…
Everest Group fell 1.1% on Wednesday to $386.88, down 2% on the week, underperforming a peer group whose median weekly move was -0.5%. The stock reports Q3 results today. The most unusual data point heading into the…
Bunge Global SA fell just 1.4% over the past week, holding up better than close peers ADM and DAR, which dropped 2.7% and 6.1% respectively, even as the stock trades down 7.5% over the past month to $100.80. Options…
VTR is trading at $81.07, down 5% over the past week, after the Q3 print on October 27 knocked the stock 7.3% in a single session, extending a pattern that has now seen two consecutive quarterly results produce…
Tyler Technologies short sellers added to positions last week at the fastest clip in months. Short interest climbed 6.7% week-on-week to 7.7% of the free float, a 30-day increase of nearly 14%. That accumulation…
