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NESR is heading into November earnings with a 32% monthly selloff, a deeply bullish analyst consensus, and a widening gap between what the Street expects and what peers are saying about Middle East activity. The price…
YEXT enters the October stretch with two activist shareholders on its register, a short position that has grown nearly 24% over the past month, and a stock that is up only modestly from where it was a year ago. That…
GDS Holdings heads into its November 13 earnings with an unusual split: short sellers have been quietly covering for weeks, yet the borrow market spent most of September fully exhausted. The covering story is genuine.…
CRSP enters the final stretch before its November 3 earnings date with short sellers adding to an already heavy position and the stock down more than 5% on the week, a combination that frames the next four weeks as a…
VVV heads into its November earnings with short sellers adding exposure, analysts trimming targets, and a stock that has already punished investors badly once this year. The short position tells the most urgent story.…
BATR.K heads into its November 5 earnings with a notable tension: short interest has risen sharply over the past month, options traders are pushing toward their most defensive posture of the year, and three activist…
KSA, the iShares MSCI Saudi Arabia ETF, is carrying one of the most unusual combinations in the ETF space right now: a short position that remains near its highest levels of the year, while options traders have…
Aclaris Therapeutics has turned sharply lower, shedding 35% over the past week and 45% over the past month to close at $3.40, a brutal reversal for a stock that had been up nearly 79% year-to-date as recently as late…
CC enters its November 5 earnings window with short interest holding near a month-long high, a stock still struggling to find footing after a brutal August, and a Street that has spent the past two months doing little…
Babcock & Wilcox sits at an odd intersection this week: nearly 20% of its free float is sold short, yet shares are available to borrow in abundance, cost to borrow is negligible, and an activist with a 25% stake is…
Glaukos Corporation heads into its October 28 earnings report with a contradictory setup: short interest has climbed 12% over the past month, the stock just posted its best daily gain of the quarter, and options…
Zevra Therapeutics heads into its November 9 earnings report with a notable gap between what short sellers are betting and what analysts are saying. Short interest is genuinely elevated at 10.4% of the free float,…
Sunrun heads into its November earnings with a stock down 14% over the past month, a short position covering nearly a third of the float, and Goldman Sachs trimming its target for the third time since August. The most…
MOMO heads into the final quarter of 2026 with a familiar tension: the stock is down 11% over the past month, short sellers have quietly been adding positions, and the most consequential holder on the register is an…
FRPT has bounced nearly 10% this week to $63.25, but the short interest is holding firm and options traders are the most defensive they have been in months, a combination that frames the November 2 earnings date as the…
Citizens Financial Group reports Q3 results on 16 October with the stock down 11% over the past month to $63.07, and a busy week of analyst activity that tells two stories at once: broad conviction on direction but…
OKTA heads into October with a striking gap between its price chart and its short book: the stock is up 28% over the past month, yet short sellers have added meaningfully to their positions over the same period. The…
NOMD heads into its November earnings with a notable insider buying cluster at its back, while activist shareholders sit conspicuously on the register. The most striking data point this week is the executive buying…
Wayfair heads into its October 29 earnings with short interest at a meaningful 10.2% of free float, yet the lending market tells a story of unusual calm rather than building pressure. The short position has grown over…
argenx SE heads into its October 22 quarterly results with the stock down 6% over the past month and a cluster of insider sales sitting on the tape, yet the lending market sees no meaningful short conviction at…
