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GOOGL dominated Wednesday's session. Alphabet reported Gemini customer counts quadrupled year-on-year. AI investments are driving search query growth, including commercial queries. The company's CEO outlined 30 new…
GOOGL dominated options desks on Wednesday. Alphabet's CEO outlined 30 new YouTube products and flagged rising demand for complex agentic AI queries. Short-dated contracts expiring October 30 saw heavy interest. The…
Europe's car giants face a tough earnings week. Mercedes-Benz Group opens the session today. Dutch car registrations, a leading indicator for its revenue, are running 6% below the same quarter last year. That signal…
BNL reports on October 29. The put/call ratio hit 0.40 on Tuesday, a 52-week high and 2.9 standard deviations above its 20-day average of 0.15. Short interest jumped 16.1% in one week to 11.0% of free float, the…
Barclays dominated the analyst tape on Wednesday, issuing target price revisions across five names in a single session. BA took the sharpest hit. Anthony Valentini at Barclays cut his target from $300 to $250, a $50…
Insiders at some of the US market's biggest recent winners are cashing out. AppLovin shows the most negative insider open-interest momentum among large-cap US stocks over the past month. Executives have been selling as…
Short sellers moved fast this week. Data as of 27 October shows several stocks absorbing sharp increases in bearish positioning over just seven days. GRND (Grindr) saw short interest jump 8 percentage points. It now…
INIO delivered its Q3 results on October 28, and the immediate data story is a sharp reversal in short positioning against a backdrop where Wall Street's conviction, while still positive, has been visibly trimmed. The…
HBND, the Singapore-listed shares of Bank of China Limited, reported earnings on 29 October with the same featureless borrow market that characterised the pre-results note published just hours earlier. Nothing in the…
WAY diverged from its closest peers this past week, falling 2.7% to $28.02 while the median peer move was roughly flat. Among the most correlated names, PHR gained 2% on the week and VEEV slipped just 1.6%. CERT stood…
Hertz Global Holdings heads into its November 5 earnings date with borrow costs re-accelerating, short interest near a multi-month high, and options traders rotating toward calls for the first time in weeks. The borrow…
Ondas Inc. now has more than two-thirds of its free float sold short, the highest reading recorded against the current share count, yet the stock just delivered its strongest weekly gain since the summer. Short…
Moelis & Company enters its November 5 earnings date with short sellers pulling back sharply, even as the Street has spent October marking down price targets across the board. Short interest has dropped 16.4% over the…
MRVS.Y bounced 5.7% on Tuesday but remains down 23% on the week, with the lending market still fully seized ahead of its November 11 earnings date. The borrow picture is unchanged from the note published earlier today:…
FTA, the First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund, ends the week with its borrowing market in a more settled state than the frenetic pace of recent weeks suggested was coming. The short interest story has not changed…
SK, the Chilean industrial conglomerate, presents a divided picture this week: factor rankings that would satisfy most value screens sit alongside a pattern of insider-related selling that has pushed the stock steadily…
GameStop closes out the week in an uncomfortable equilibrium: the CEO is down tens of millions on a month of open-market buying, short sellers are trimming but not leaving, and the stock keeps drifting lower without…
Ryobi Limited enters its November 5 earnings date with the stock flat on the week and a valuation that continues to look cheap against its own assets, while short sellers show almost no interest in the name. The…
MSG Rangers Corp. completed its spin-off from MSG Knickerbockers on October 26 and immediately handed investors two things to watch: a sharp opening-day price drop and a borrow market that is already showing strain for…
JMKE heads into the final stretch of October with shorts unwinding sharply, a major ownership transition under way, and a mechanically driven buying catalyst on the near-term horizon. The most striking market-structure…
