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Republic Services is the least-shorted name in its peer group heading into Thursday's print, with short interest at 1.4% of the free float while closest rivals Waste Management and Waste Connections carry more…
RELX enters Thursday's results as one of the least-shorted names in European-listed information services, a contrast worth spelling out before the print. Among its closest structural peers, short positioning against…
Realty Income Corporation reports Q3 results on November 4, a net-lease REIT that has spent the past six weeks watching analysts cut price targets while the stock quietly recovered from its October lows to $57.58. The…
Public Service Enterprise Group, the New Jersey electric and gas utility, releases Q3 results today after a week in which short sellers made an unusually large exit and call buying rose to near its most dominant level…
PPL Corporation, the Pennsylvania-Kentucky-Rhode Island regulated utility, reports third-quarter results on Thursday after a week in which the shares gained 3.5%, modestly outpacing the median 2.7% advance among its…
McDonald's rose 5.9% over the past week to $265.64, outpacing a median gain of roughly 2.4% across its closest restaurant peers and extending a 14.6% gain over the past month. That recovery puts the stock well ahead of…
Humana reports third-quarter results on Thursday, and the most striking development in the run-up is not the stock's modest 5.7% monthly recovery to $410.41, but the sudden acceleration in bearish positioning over the…
HMC reports second-quarter earnings on November 6 with its own registration data pointing to weakness in its most important home market. Japan car sales tracked by the Japan Automobile Dealers Association (自販連) have…
BEN carries short interest of 3.3% of free float, the lightest short position among its closest asset management peers heading into Thursday's fiscal fourth-quarter print. Closest competitor IVZ draws considerably…
EOG Resources drops into its November 6 earnings report with the whole upstream sector in retreat, yet shedding less ground than most of its peers. The sector-wide pressure is the context here. EOG fell 4.6% on Monday…
Short interest in BRK.A has climbed nearly 76% since early October, yet the borrow market remains one of the most frictionless in the US large-cap universe, a split that frames Thursday's Q3 results in an unusual…
Among diversified bank ADRs, Banco de Chile now carries one of the more actively building short positions heading into its November 6 results, even though the absolute level remains modest relative to the float. Short…
VRSU.Y reports Q3 results on November 3 with a trading picture that is harder to read than most: the OTC-listed shares last closed 12 days ago, leaving the setup essentially frozen ahead of the print. The most recent…
Upstart Holdings heads into its Q3 print on November 3 with one of the most contested positioning pictures in consumer finance: a short book that remains near multi-year highs is being trimmed at the margin, the stock…
PGV enters Thursday's earnings release with its shares down 7.4% over the past month and a further 1.2% drop on Friday, closing at VND 20,550. The stock has been drifting lower for weeks, and the trend has only…
Among gene-editing peers, CRSP carries one of the lighter short positions heading into its November 3 results. BEAM, NTLA and EDIT all gained more than 11% on the week while CRSP added only 4.1%, suggesting…
Moelis & Company arrives at its November 5 earnings release with short sellers having retreated materially over the past two weeks, while analysts spent October trimming targets across the board. Short interest peaked…
A10 Networks heads into its November 5 earnings print carrying a meaningful short position, a stock down 5% on the week, and options traders positioned unusually bullish relative to recent norms. Short sellers have…
Among the closest midstream peers, ET's short positioning is one of the lightest in the group. OKE, EPD, and TRGP all carry heavier short interest relative to their floats. ET's own SI stands at 0.78% of the free…
Lucky Cement heads into its November 4 results carrying a valuation gap that sits at the heart of every argument about the stock. The discount is stark. The shares trade at a price-to-earnings ratio of 5.4 and just…
