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JP Morgan Upgrade Triggers Short Exit as KMX Hits Fresh Highs

CarMax enters the back half of the week having broken above its previous resistance, with a same-day JP Morgan upgrade shifting the analyst narrative just as short sellers accelerate their retreat. The catalyst is hard…

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CAKE Analysts Lift Targets After Earnings Beat

The Cheesecake Factory has just reported earnings, and the Street's immediate verdict is a wave of upward target revisions — but with a meaningful split on whether the stock, now trading at $89, has already priced in…

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Celestica Surges 9.5% as Q2 Beats Send Peers Scrambling

CLS just delivered the print that justified the short retreat — a 9.5% single-day surge after Q2 results, with bears already having cleared the decks before the news hit. The earnings reaction is the story. The stock…

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Baird Downgrades CAT as Earnings Loom Six Days Out

Caterpillar heads into its August 4 earnings print with a fresh downgrade on the tape, a stock down 16% in a month, and options traders quietly less defensive than the price action might suggest. The week's defining…

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CFFN Heads Into Earnings With Options Turning Bullish

Capitol Federal Financial goes into its August 4 earnings report with options traders notably less defensive than they have been all year, even as short sellers quietly add to positions. The clearest signal this week…

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CMS Energy Shorts Retreat as Q2 Results Land

CMS Energy has just posted Q2 results — and the week's most striking development is how quickly short sellers unwound a large position heading into the print, even as options traders reached their most defensive…

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BRO Jumps 10% Post-Earnings as Analysts Lift Targets

Brown & Brown delivered a strong Q2 beat on July 28, sending the stock up nearly 9% on the day and 10.5% on the week to $73.65 — and triggering a wave of analyst target increases that arrived faster than the short…

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BSX Bounces on Earnings Day, but the Target Reset Isn't Over

Boston Scientific has just reported Q2 earnings today — and the stock's 6.6% rally on the week tells only part of the story, because analysts are still cutting targets even as they hold their Buy ratings. The analyst…

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BWA Shorts Rebuild as Earnings Land Tomorrow

BorgWarner reports Q2 results on July 30 with the short side now rebuilding sharply — a direct reversal of the covering trend described just two days ago — while options traders remain near their most defensive stance…

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Boeing Q2 Relief Rally — What Comes Next

BA has now reported Q2 earnings, and the market's verdict is unambiguous: the stock closed at $221.56, up nearly 5% on the day and 8% on the week, completing a full reversal from the pressure that defined the…

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BAC Options Calm Down as Analysts Keep Lifting Targets

Bank of America heads into the final days of July with the options alarm that defined last week quietly fading — and the Street still reluctant to get off the accelerator on price targets. The most notable shift from…

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ADP Rallies Through Earnings — Shorts Keep Retreating

ADP delivered its July 29 earnings and the market rewarded it: the stock closed at $264.17, up 3.6% on the day and 7.3% on the week, extending what has become an 18% gain over the past month. The earnings-day move is…

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Apple Earnings Day: The Print Arrives, the Premium Stays

AAPL reports Q3 results tonight at $340.08 — up 3.8% on the week and nearly 20% over the past month — with the stock now trading roughly $18 above the Street's consensus mean target of $321.66 and the defensive…

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APH Drops 9% Post-Earnings as Analyst Targets Tower Above

Amphenol has reported its Q2 results — the print the last note was previewing — and the stock has sold off sharply, falling 9% on the week to $143.85, leaving a wide and now very visible gap between where the stock…

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Amgen Rallies Into Earnings With Shorts Retreating

AMGN heads into its August 4 earnings report with a 7% week-on-week rally, a sharp drop in short interest, and options traders moving cautiously more defensive — a setup where the longs are winning but the hedgers are…

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AWR Options Turn Cautious Ahead of August Earnings

AWR heads into its August 4 earnings with options traders the most defensively positioned they have been all year. The clearest signal is in the put/call ratio. It has climbed to 1.32, well above its 20-day average of…

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AMD Falls Into Earnings With the Price Gap Blown Wide Open

AMD dropped 8.1% on Tuesday and closed the week at $454.62 — down 16.5% in five sessions — arriving at next Tuesday's Q2 print in a dramatically different position than the one described in Monday's note, when the…

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