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Icahn Enterprises L.P. trades at $6.65, down about 1.5% on the week, and the dominant fact about this stock is one that has nothing to do with short sellers or options traders. Carl Icahn is buying his own company,…
KTOS is in a confusing place: the stock has lost another 12% over the past month to $41.94, yet options positioning has swung to its most call-heavy reading of the past year, and analysts who covered the September…
BNY enters its October 15 earnings release carrying a 13% monthly price decline, elevated options defensiveness, and a fresh cluster of analyst target cuts, making this one of the more charged setups the custody bank…
Broadridge Financial Solutions heads into its November 4 earnings date trading 7% lower over the past month, while every close peer in its group has gained ground on the week. The peer divergence is the sharpest…
Ryanair enters its November 2 earnings window with one genuinely interesting anomaly: the cost to borrow its shares has tripled in a month while short interest remains negligible. That disconnect between a nervous…
AeroVironment is caught in an unusual split this week: short sellers are adding to positions at the fastest monthly pace in recent memory, yet options traders have stepped back from the defensive extremes that defined…
AG is caught in a broader silver miner sell-off, down 18% over the past month to CAD 23.75, with short sellers quietly reducing exposure and the lending market remaining among the loosest in the sector. The price…
FSLR enters its October 27 earnings with Goldman Sachs trimming its price target this morning, short interest still near a cycle high, and analyst consensus pointing sharply above current levels despite a month-long…
Mastercard arrives at the final three weeks before its October 29 earnings with the most notable development since last week's note being a clear shift in options positioning: the put/call ratio has pulled back…
TTE heads into its October 29 results with the lending market exceptionally loose, short positioning near a year-low, and the stock quietly lagging its European peers across every timeframe this week. The borrow story…
DK heads into its November 6 earnings date with a fresh analyst downgrade sitting awkwardly on top of a 5.7% weekly gain and short sellers who haven't flinched. The most pressing development this week was Mizuho…
Live Nation Entertainment heads into its November 5 earnings date with options traders at their most bearish in months, even as short sellers slowly reduce their bets. The clearest signal this week is in the options…
WisdomTree heads into its October 30 earnings date with shorts unwinding, analysts raising targets across the board, and retail attention running well above normal, yet the stock has given back ground all week. The…
Seven & i Holdings enters the autumn in an unusual state: short sellers are retreating from the stock at the same time it keeps sliding, a divergence that makes the current setup harder to read than the headline price…
ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES has extended its recovery sharply this week, with the stock up 12% to TWD 128.5, and the lending market now telling a dramatically different story from a fortnight ago. The borrow picture has…
DiamondRock Hospitality enters the final stretch before its November 3 earnings report with a quietly improving setup: short sellers have been pulling back, the borrow market has opened up dramatically, and most of the…
GAU heads into the final stretch of Q3 earnings season with a notable tension between genuinely cheap valuation and a stock that has lost nearly 12% over the past month, even as the broader gold producer complex holds…
Samsung Electronics enters its October 29 earnings print with the Street pricing in a near-double from current levels, shorts completely absent, and a stock that has gone nowhere on the week despite gaining 5% over the…
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories enters its October 23 quarterly print with the stock softening, domestic peers pulling in the same direction, and a lending market that carries virtually no short-selling fingerprint. The…
ASML reports third-quarter results on 14 October with the lending market utterly indifferent to the event. That near-total absence of short-side conviction, set against a week in which several close peers sold off…
