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PFS Heads Into Earnings With Shorts Retreating

Provident Financial Services reports Q2 results on July 30 with shorts unwinding, options tilted aggressively toward calls, and the Street nudging targets higher — a setup that looks more constructive than the stock's…

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Shorts Retreat as Oshkosh Earnings Lift the Street

OSK reported earnings on July 28, and the market's reaction has been swift — shorts cutting, analysts raising targets, and the stock clawing back 4.2% on the week to $152.50 despite a modest $2.44 pull-back on…

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RCL Surges 12% Post-Earnings as Street Races to Catch Up

Royal Caribbean just delivered its Q2 earnings, and the defensive hedging that dominated pre-print positioning has been comprehensively unwound — the stock jumped 12% on the week to $322.50, and analysts are scrambling…

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EG Clears Q2 With Options Bulls Vindicated

Everest Group just printed its Q2 earnings against one of the most bullish options setups of the past year — and the stock has responded, now up nearly 6% on the week to $398.70. The options shift that defined the…

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WWD Pulls Back After Earnings, but the Bull Thesis Holds

Woodward, Inc. delivered its July 29 results and slipped 2.2% the following session — a modest negative reaction that leaves the stock at $410.55, still up nearly 1% on the week and roughly 39% year-to-date. The…

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WFG Earnings Tomorrow as Shorts Quietly Exit

West Fraser Timber heads into its Q2 results tomorrow with a quiet but consistent story playing out beneath the price action: short sellers have been stepping back, the stock has recovered from a rough month, and the…

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BNP Paribas Upgrades WPC After Q2 Print, Lifting Target to $88

W. P. Carey exits earnings week with its most significant analyst re-rating in months — and the post-results setup looks meaningfully different from the pre-earnings tension that dominated recent coverage. BNP Paribas…

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Viasat shorts pile in ahead of August earnings

VSAT heads into its August 4 earnings report with short sellers rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in months, even as the stock has rallied 20% over the past 30 days. The most striking development this week is…

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VFC shorts cover hard ahead of Friday earnings

VFC heads into its July 31 earnings print with one of the more interesting short-covering stories in the apparel sector this week. Short sellers cut positions aggressively. Short interest fell roughly 9% over the past…

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UHS Pops on Q2 Beat, but Analysts Trim Targets

Universal Health Services just delivered its Q2 results and the stock jumped — but the post-earnings picture is more complicated than the 11% weekly gain suggests, with analysts cutting price targets even as they…

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UFPI Options Traders Turn Defensive Ahead of Earnings

UFP Industries heads into its Q2 earnings release — scheduled for July 30 — with options markets flashing their most defensive signal of the past year, even as the stock posts its best weekly gain since early…

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USLM Heads Into Earnings With Options Turning Bullish

United States Lime & Minerals reports tomorrow — July 30 — and the most striking signal heading into that print is a sharp reversal in options sentiment, with positioning now at its most bullish in over a year. The…

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UPS Drops 9% Post-Earnings as Bulls Reassess

UPS delivered its Q2 results on July 28 and the market punished the print — shares fell 6.6% on the day and are down 9.3% on the week to $105.53, unwinding much of the bullish options setup that had built ahead of the…

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UNP Analysts Lift Targets as Post-Earnings Hedging Ticks Up

Union Pacific has given back ground after a strong earnings beat, and options traders are adding defensive cover — yet the analyst community responded to the July 23 print with one of the most uniform target-price…

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