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BNS approaches its Q2 earnings release — confirmed for May 27 — with a quietly interesting contradiction: the stock has had one of its strongest months in recent memory while short sellers have been actively rebuilding…
OZK enters the back half of April with an unusual mix: shorts covering at a meaningful pace while options traders remain more defensively positioned than at almost any point in the past year. The most striking…
Bank of Montreal heads into its May 27 earnings date with the most notable move this week coming not from price or positioning, but from a sharp and sudden jump in the cost to borrow its shares. The borrow story is the…
Bank of Hawaii Corporation heads into the final week of April with an unusual combination: a board of directors that just bought stock in unison, options traders turning more defensive, and short sellers who barely…
Bank of America heads into its May 4 Q1 results with short sellers quietly unwinding and the analyst community in a markedly more constructive mood than it was just three weeks ago. The most telling shift is in the…
Grupo Cibest S.A. heads into its May 5 Q1 2026 earnings call with a familiar pattern hanging over it: the stock has fallen every quarter in the days following a result, and the week is already off to a poor start. The…
Banco Santander-Chile enters its April 30 Q1 results with options traders showing the most defensive posture in over a year — just as a bellwether upgrade sets the stock up for a tug-of-war between improving…
SAN delivered its Q1 2026 results on April 29, and the most striking story in the data is not the price — it's how quickly shorts moved to unwind ahead of and after the release. Short sellers trimmed exposure…
Itaú Unibanco heads into its May 5 earnings date with an unusual split: a strong one-month price run built on modest short positioning, disrupted this week by a dramatic and unexplained collapse in borrowing costs. The…
BCH reports Q1 2026 results on April 30 with options traders positioned aggressively for upside and the short base pulling back after a volatile week. The clearest signal comes from the options market. Call demand has…
BBVA heads into its Q1 earnings call on April 30 with a sharp and sudden shift in options positioning — the standout signal in an otherwise quiet week for the Spanish lender's ADR. Options traders turned markedly more…
BBD heads into its May 6 Q1 results with shorts in full retreat — but a week of consolidation and a 4% single-day tick-up in short positions on April 28 adds a note of ambiguity to an otherwise bullish unwind. The…
BancFirst Corporation heads into Thursday's Q1 earnings call with its chairman selling millions of dollars of stock into a six-week rally — and options traders positioning with unusual bullishness for a regional bank…
BSPA enters the back half of April as a materially different institution. The completion of its merger-of-equals with NBC Bancorp on April 1 is the defining event of this period — and it changes how investors should…
Ball Corporation heads into its May 5 Q1 results with short sellers quietly adding pressure after a month of steady position building. The most notable shift in the data is the trajectory of short interest. Bears have…
BCPC enters its April 30 Q1 earnings call with short sellers quietly backing away and the stock holding up far better than most of its specialty chemicals peers. The most striking setup is the divergence between…
BBBK dropped 2.2% last week, on the day it reported first-quarter results, even as the underlying numbers told a better story than a year ago. The Q1 print itself was solid. Net interest income climbed to $5.94…
Badger Meter enters its next earnings window with an unusual split: the CEO and several senior executives stepped in to buy shares at the lows, while short sellers have spent the month building one of the stock's most…
BNCCORP enters its Q1 2026 earnings release — scheduled for May 1 — with something far more consequential than a quarterly beat-or-miss hanging over it: a definitive $130 million acquisition agreement, signed today,…
BRT Apartments Corp. enters its May 8 earnings release with a notable shift in short positioning — and a stock that has quietly recovered 10% over the past month, even as the fundamental debate around Sunbelt…
