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Service Corporation International reports Q3 results this morning with a notable shift in short positioning since the previous earnings preview published four days ago: short interest has climbed 14% over the past week…
PPG Industries reports third-quarter results today with the put/call ratio pulling back to 0.39 from the 0.45 spike seen on Tuesday, though that earlier reading was the most statistically significant defensive…
PKX heads into its November 2 earnings print with options traders still leaning constructive, even as the stock has lost another leg lower since the last preview. The price has slipped a further 0.4% from the $52.35…
ONEOK delivered its Q3 results on October 30 with short sellers at their least aggressive in months. Short interest came into the print at 3.66% of free float, down 16% over the past month and well below the…
Mid-America Apartment Communities is the laggard in its peer group heading into today's print, down 0.8% over the past week while the median residential REIT gained around 1.0%. Camden Property Trust added 1.8% over…
Loews Corporation is one of the less crowded shorts in the property and casualty insurance space heading into its November 2 earnings release. Closest peer CNA Financial carries a broadly similar short profile, while…
Labcorp Holdings outpaced every name in the diagnostics peer group last week, gaining 11.3% against a median advance of roughly 0.8% for its closest comparables. Closest peer Quest Diagnostics was flat on the week, up…
GD enters its Q3 results on October 30 with a clear and unusual tension: short sellers have almost entirely stepped back, yet the stock's largest shareholder filed on Schedule 13D and has been trimming. The analyst…
Aon plc reports third-quarter results on October 30 after spending much of 2026 under pressure from a controversial acquisition, then surging 7.3% over the past week to $315.72, far ahead of the 0.8% median gain for…
Agnico Eagle Mines has clawed back 1.3% to $183.11, but the stock remains down 5.8% over the past month, recovering marginally better than the gold major peer group, which shed a median 3.6% on the week against AEM's…
Short sellers sharpened their bets across several notable names this week. The biggest mover was GRND: Grindr's short interest jumped to 21.7% of free float, up 8 percentage points in seven days. That is one of the…
Today brings AMZN and INTC Q3 results after the US close. GILD and ILMN also report today. AAPL follows on Monday with its Q4 print. Options markets are already pricing in the moves. Bearish flow is heaviest in semis…
A packed earnings calendar is driving unusual options positioning across US markets. The most active expiries cluster around the October 30 and November 6 dates, with traders betting on near-term moves ahead of results…
Today brings a double shot from the S&P 500. AMZN and INTC both report Q3 results after the close. GILD and ILMN also release today. BMY and EMCOR hold calls this morning. In Europe, Renault posts its sales statement…
SO dominates the week's alternative data. The ORTEX nuclear output dataset recorded reactor output at 10.0 standard deviations below Southern Company's own history as of 27 October 2026. That is the sharpest deviation…
Barclays made one of the sharpest moves in today's batch. Anthony Valentini cut his target on BA from $300 to $250. He held his Buy rating despite the 17% target reduction. The stock remains in the buy camp for most…
The most notable open-market purchase in the latest filing data came from UBER. Andrew Gordon MacDonald, President and COO, filed on 8 September showing he bought $4.1 million worth of Uber shares on 4 September. A…
Short sellers added pressure to several mid-cap names in the five days to 27 October, with CBRS and GRND seeing the sharpest moves among stocks worth over $500 million. Cerebras Systems, the AI chip maker, saw short…
China dominates ETF inflows this week. $23.9B poured into China-focused funds in the past five trading days. That is nearly twice the next-largest geographic flow. The buying pressure reading of 82.8 out of 100 signals…
Earnings season is reshaping options flow across multiple names today. The biggest signals point to CVNA, GOOGL, and WOLF. Carvana reported Q3 results after the close. The stock jumped, and options markets had loaded…
