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Karman Holdings makes mission-critical structural components and propulsion hardware for missile, space, and maritime defense programs. The stock gained 7.7% on the week to close at $37.73, outpacing a peer median of…
SFD reports Q3 results tomorrow morning against an unchanged tension: a stock priced at deep-value multiples, a short-side build that has continued at a measured pace, and an analyst community that sees meaningful…
TTAM reports Q3 results on November 4 with analyst price targets trending lower and a short score near 73, a level it has held for weeks, framing a stock that the market is broadly skeptical about even as the shares…
Beta Bionics delivered its Q3 results on October 27, and the setup heading into the print was unusual: short sellers had already been retreating for weeks, the analyst community had been building out coverage at…
CBRS short interest has climbed to its highest level in at least a year, rising 32% in a single week to roughly 21.1 million shares, even as the stock bounced 10% on Tuesday to close at $119.31. The scale of the short…
StandardAero gained 4.6% over the past week, making it the clear outperformer among its closest aerospace peers, where the median move was a loss of roughly 0.9%. GE slipped 0.7% on the week, TransDigm fell 1.1%, and…
Amentum Holdings enters the final stretch before its November 24 earnings report with a striking internal contradiction: options traders are more bullish than at almost any point in the past year, yet the Street has…
Bicara Therapeutics enters its November 10 earnings date carrying one of the heavier short burdens in clinical-stage biotech, an on-register activist, and a Street consensus that sits well above where the stock is…
Slide Insurance Holdings reported Q3 results on October 28, and the question now is whether the unusually bullish options positioning that preceded the print was warranted. The pre-earnings signal in options was…
Sirius XM Holdings closed the week at $27.25, up 0.3%, with one of the sharpest short-covering episodes in its recent history playing out beneath the surface. Short sellers cut their positions by nearly 20% over the…
BTC, the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust, has reversed course sharply since the October 21 note flagged a near-doubling of short interest: positions have unwound just as quickly as they built, leaving the lending market…
Pershing Square USA enters the final stretch of October with an unusual juxtaposition: its Chief Investment Officer spent nearly $9.6 million buying shares in early October, yet short interest has risen 16% over the…
Rapport Therapeutics enters its November 6 earnings print with an unusual signal cutting against the defensive tone of recent weeks: the board is buying the stock with conviction. Five directors made open-market…
Inhibrx Biosciences enters its November 13 earnings window with one of the more striking insider-buying patterns in the biotech space right now, set against a short position that remains stubbornly large and shows no…
TEL posted its sharpest weekly gain in months on Wednesday, rising 5.5% to $225.35, with the move coming directly on the back of its fiscal Q4 earnings release. The interesting tension now is straightforward: shorts…
GE Vernova reported third-quarter results on October 28 and jumped 4.7% to $895 on the day, yet something more interesting happened in the background: short interest surged 34% over the past week to 3.6% of free float,…
Short sellers rebuilt positions in RDDT this week, pushing bearish exposure higher even as the stock fell 12.3% to $136.46, its worst weekly performance in months. Short interest rose to 15.5% of the free float, up…
QQQI, the NEOS Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF, has seen an extraordinary rebuild in short positioning this week, even as borrowing costs fall and options traders skew defensively, a combination that tells a layered story…
Banc of California reported Q3 results on October 28, and with the number now on the table, the question shifts from how much hedging was in place to whether the print changes anything for the bears who spent the past…
KVYO carries one of the more layered ownership pictures in mid-cap software right now, with nearly 15% of its free float sold short, an activist 13D filer controlling more than a fifth of the company, and Goldman Sachs…
