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ONEOK heads into its October 27 earnings release with short sellers on the back foot and Wikipedia attention hitting a two-standard-deviation spike, an unusual combination for a pipeline operator that rarely generates…
Occidental Petroleum enters the back half of October with the momentum trade firmly intact, up 5.7% on the week to $61.65, and the analyst community now visibly catching up to a stock that has re-rated sharply since…
NVIDIA heads into the final six weeks before its November 25 earnings with the stock recovering Tuesday's 1% gain to $228.52, but still nursing a 4.5% weekly loss that has reopened the gap to analyst targets and pushed…
Northrop Grumman reports Q3 results on October 20 with the stock up about 2% from last week's close but still down 7% on the month, and a flurry of analyst target cuts arriving in the final days before the print. The…
Netflix reports Q3 results on Thursday with the stock sitting at $70.46, a shade below yesterday's close, but the week's most interesting move has been the quiet exit of short sellers ahead of the print. Short interest…
NCR Voyix has bounced 7% this week, but short sellers have added to their positions rather than retreated, setting up a direct tension between the price action and the conviction of the bears. The short side is quietly…
Murphy Oil heads into its November 4 earnings with shorts rebuilding modestly, analysts nudging targets higher, and options traders leaning bullish, a setup that looks constructive but not without tension given the…
Morgan Stanley reported Q3 earnings on October 14 with the stock down 13% over the past month, and the single most striking data point is not the analyst target cuts that defined the run-up but the speed at which…
Moody's Corporation enters its October 20 earnings release with a notable shift in sentiment: short sellers have been quietly adding exposure over the past month, analysts have been cutting targets ahead of the print,…
MAA enters its October 28 earnings report carrying a rare convergence of headwinds: analyst targets are falling in unison, a potential MSCI index reshuffle threatens mechanical selling pressure, and short interest has…
MSTR heads into its October 28 earnings with a week-7% pullback, shorts in retreat from recent highs, and analysts lifting targets even as bitcoin's gravitational pull keeps the stock trading well below Street…
Microsoft is now fourteen days from its October 28 earnings print, trading at $543.45 and up 2.7% on the week, with the analyst community still chasing the stock higher and the borrow market offering nothing of…
S&P Global has bounced 3.5% this week to $410, yet the analyst community spent the same period trimming price targets, a divergence worth unpacking thirteen days before the October 27 earnings print. JP Morgan's Andrew…
MasTec has dropped nearly 10% in a week to $206.12, while the shorts who bet against it are quietly covering. That tension between a falling price and retreating short interest is the clearest signal in this week's…
Marsh & McLennan reports third-quarter earnings on October 15 with the stock at $177.01, up 3.1% on the week and sitting above both the cautious analysts' targets and the level at which two previous notes found it…
Lockheed Martin arrives at its October 20 Q3 earnings report with the stock down another 1.2% on the week, target cuts landing from two separate firms, and short interest climbing at its fastest pace in months, a setup…
Eli Lilly and Company heads into its October 29 Q3 earnings report with the stock slightly off its recent highs, the analyst consensus firmly bullish, and the central debate narrowing to a single question: how much has…
LII enters its October 22 earnings report under unusual pressure: a Goldman Sachs downgrade landed the same morning short interest hit a 30-day high, with index-rebalance flows adding a further mechanical overhang the…
LEN heads into December earnings with short sellers pulling back, Berkshire Hathaway pressing further into the stock, and a near-unanimous analyst community pointing the other way. The most material development since…
KSS heads into the final stretch before its November earnings with a curious split: the stock has staged one of the sharpest recoveries in its peer group, yet short sellers still control more than a quarter of the free…
