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RARE heads into the post-earnings stretch carrying one of the highest short positions in its peer group, a wrecked pipeline narrative, and an analyst community that cannot agree on how low is low enough. Short interest…
OGS has cleared its Q3 earnings hurdle and the market's verdict has been positive, with the stock up 3.3% on the week to $81.03 and the defensive hedging that dominated pre-print positioning now looking like it has…
Short sellers have continued adding to an already heavy position in PRGO, with short interest climbing nearly 1% over the past week to reach 17.8% of the free float, the latest reading in a steady build that has added…
American Airlines enters November in an uncomfortable position: short interest remains heavy at 15% of the free float, the analyst community has spent the past month cutting targets, and the stock at $12.82 is running…
QURE enters its November 9 earnings date with a quietly shifting short position, analyst opinion divided sharply along a clinical inflection point, and retail attention running at a multi-month high. Short interest has…
Intercontinental Exchange has had a sharp reversal of fortune since the earnings preview note published here a week ago. Where ICE was lagging peers going into Wednesday's print, it has since sprinted to the front: the…
Criteo reported Q3 results on November 4, and the market's immediate reaction was measured: the stock added 7% on the week to close at $15.17, with a 1.3% gain on the day of the print itself. The more interesting…
CDW Corporation heads into the post-earnings week with an unusual split: the stock just fell 7.2% in five days, yet options positioning is the most bullish it has been all year. The options market is the loudest signal…
T-Mobile US posted a 5.2% gain over the past week, closing at $154.41, but that recovery sits against a punishing month that left the stock down 5.6% and in a position where analysts spent the last days of October…
Cricut heads into the week after its November 3 earnings release with a stock down 9% over the past month, a CEO selling steadily under a pre-arranged plan, and shorts still holding an above-average position despite a…
VOYA has cleared its November earnings hurdle with a 5.2% one-day gain on November 3, and the stock is now up 6.5% on the week to $103.11, the clearest signal yet that the Q3 print resolved enough of the market's…
United Parks & Resorts reports Q3 results tomorrow morning with a quietly contradictory setup: short sellers have been covering steadily for a month, options have shifted more bullish than they have been in over a…
Boise Cascade goes into Thursday's Q3 earnings print with options traders at their most cautious in months, shorts at a one-year high, and the stock trailing its peer group by a wide margin. The sharpest move this week…
Travere Therapeutics heads into the final stretch of Q4 with a split picture: short sellers have quietly covered a significant chunk of their position, but the stock has shed 13% over the past month and Guggenheim has…
Diamondback Energy reported its Q3 results on November 3, and the market's verdict was swift: the stock fell 9.3% on the day, extending a weekly decline of 5.9% to close at $192.34. That is a sharper drop than most…
SMH has reversed sharply after last week's bounce, dropping 7% over the past week to $518.52, and the positioning picture has shifted with it: short sellers have been adding exposure, options hedges have partially…
QXO gained 10.1% over the past week, putting it ahead of the median gain of 5.7% across its closest building products peers and marking a sharp reversal for a stock that had fallen nearly 40% year to date. Short…
Aptiv reported Q3 results on November 3, fell 6.5% the same day, and emerged with every major analyst cutting targets on November 4, yet almost none dropping their buy-equivalent ratings, a tension that defines the…
Marriott Vacations Worldwide has gained 6.8% on the week and 13.8% over the past month, yet the analyst community remains fractured between buyers with targets well above the current price and bears who think the rally…
Enphase Energy staged its sharpest single-day rally in weeks on November 3, gaining nearly 9%, yet the short base that rebuilt aggressively after the October 27 earnings miss has barely budged, leaving the stock in a…
