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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…
AESI enters its November 2 earnings print in a difficult spot: short interest remains near historic highs, the stock has lost more than a quarter of its value in a month, and analysts are still cutting targets even as…
Lithium Americas Corp. heads into its November 13 earnings with short interest at a one-month high, borrow availability tight, and an 85% probability of being dropped from the S&P/TSX Composite in December. The short…
Diebold Nixdorf reported Q3 results on October 28 and the stock reacted with a 3.1% decline, now trading at $66.68, leaving the shares down 1.7% on the week despite a 6.3% gain over the past month. Short interest has…
SharkNinja enters its November 4 earnings week with analysts raising price targets, short sellers continuing a slow retreat, and retail attention running well above its recent norm. The most notable development this…
Talen Energy gained 2.4% on Tuesday to close at $345.73, a partial recovery that does little to mask the more striking data underneath: short interest climbed 62% over the past five days, a move 3.8 standard deviations…
GE HealthCare Technologies reports Q3 results on Thursday, October 30, with the stock trading at $71.11 after a 1.3% gain on the week, and two separate data points flagging unusual activity in the run-up: short…
FTAI Aviation reports Q3 results tomorrow with short interest holding near 6% of the free float and options traders tilting more bullish than usual, even as the stock has lagged its sector peers sharply over the past…
