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Ross Stores Options Flip Bullish Ahead of August Earnings

ROST heads into its August 20 earnings report with the most striking shift of the past month happening not in short interest — which tells a quiet story — but in options, where the hedging overhang that dominated all…

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RWT Analysts Cut Targets After Earnings Selloff

RWT heads into the post-earnings week as one of the worst performers in its mortgage REIT peer group, down 7.2% on the week and 5.5% in Tuesday's session alone after reporting Q2 results on July 28. The analyst…

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RJF Shorts Retreat as Analysts Lift Targets Post-Earnings

Raymond James Financial has spent the week after its July 22 earnings print doing exactly what the pre-results options positioning dared to hope — the stock has climbed 5.5% to $177.18, and the bears who were already…

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RLI Earnings Beat Meets a Street Split

RLI has gained 8% this week and 13% over the past month, but the stock's first real test arrives today: Q2 results are in, and the analyst community has split sharply on what they mean. The most consequential move came…

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Quanta Drops 8% Into Earnings as Sector Sells Off

Quanta Services walks into its July 30 Q2 earnings release down 8% on the week and 14% over the past month, with the entire electrical infrastructure peer group under pressure and options traders hedging more…

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QCOM Post-Earnings: Shorts Rebuild as Stock Slides

QUALCOMM has reported earnings and the market's verdict is brutal — the stock is down 14% over the past month and fell another 4.2% on Tuesday, with short sellers reversing the retreat that defined the pre-earnings…

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Polaris Earnings Land Flat — Options Traders Turn Bullish

Polaris Inc. reported Q2 results on July 28 with the stock dropping 4.2% on the day, even as analysts lifted targets and options positioning flipped to its most call-heavy reading of recent months. The clearest signal…

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Pentair Bounces Hard After Earnings, But Targets Keep Falling

PNR just delivered its sharpest weekly gain in months — up 8.6% to $66.77 — yet the analyst community spent the same two days cutting price targets again, leaving the stock in an unusual position: a relief rally…

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Piper Sandler Lifts Target as PGC Clears Earnings

PGC emerged from its Q2 print with the Street's conviction intact — and one analyst wasted no time raising the bar. Piper Sandler moved its target to $58 on July 29, up from $54, maintaining its Overweight rating. That…

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PACCAR Rallies 9% on Earnings Beat as Street Lifts Targets

PCAR just delivered its strongest week in months, with the stock jumping 9.5% to $138.21 — and the catalyst is straightforward: quarterly results released Tuesday afternoon triggered an immediate re-rating from the…

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Morgan Stanley Downgrade Lands Days Before OKE Earnings

ONEOK heads into its August 3 earnings report with the most significant analyst cut of the year landing just hours ago — and a stock already down 3.3% on the week. The catalyst for this week's pressure is clear. Morgan…

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NVDA Holds $197 as Peers Crater and August 19 Looms

NVIDIA is clinging to the $197 level after last week's 5% breakdown, but the more interesting story this week is what's happening around it — the semiconductor peer group has been hit far harder, and the August 19…

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Nucor Analysts Chase the Rally as Earnings Loom

NUE heads into its July 30 earnings release with analysts racing to catch up to a stock that has already moved — and options traders still hedging hard despite a 14% week. The analyst response to this week's rally has…

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NWBI Posts Earnings Gain as Analyst Lifts Target

Northwest Bancshares reported Q2 earnings on July 28, and the stock responded with a 3.2% gain — a clean beat of expectations that prompted the most meaningful analyst move on the name in months. DA Davidson's Jeff…

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