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Fortune Brands Innovations posted earnings on November 3 and walked into the week after with its stock up 6.5% on the week but down sharply on the day, analysts trimming targets on both sides, and short interest at a…
Allison Transmission enters this week having delivered its best five-day performance in months, with the Q3 earnings print acting as the ignition and options positioning now reflecting the most bullish sentiment in at…
Marathon Petroleum closed the post-earnings week down 2% at $427.34, with the stock absorbing its Q3 print and a fresh round of analyst target increases that still sit comfortably above the current price. The earnings…
MOS reported its Q3 results on November 4, and the numbers landed into an already-weakened stock: shares are down 12.6% over the past month to $18.42, and short sellers had spent October positioning for exactly this…
NMFC has just cleared its Q3 print, but the news flow hasn't stopped: Wells Fargo moved to cut its price target within hours of the earnings release, and the stock slipped back on Tuesday even as the week remained…
Nebius Group fell 11% over the past week to close at $151.64, a steeper drop than the median peer decline of roughly 5%, yet short sellers added nothing and covered nothing: the position that has defined this tape for…
Summit Hotel Properties reported Q3 results on November 4 and immediately gave back ground, slipping 0.8% on the day to $7.04, while most lodging REIT peers moved higher on the week. The peer contrast is worth noting.…
Meta Platforms has clawed back some ground after last week's post-earnings selloff, but the fundamental tension that drove the stock from $777 to $612 in a month remains unresolved: a revenue machine that still works,…
VOO enters the first week of November having recovered slightly from last week's tech-driven selloff, but the most striking development is in options, where the put/call ratio has collapsed to its lowest reading of the…
Tesla slipped back from the $400 mark this week, closing at $398.50, down 2.2% on the week, as options traders maintained a defensive lean even as the borrow market became noticeably cheaper. The clearest shift in…
Vishay Precision Group has spent the past month in a sharp drawdown, with the stock down 31% over 30 days to $54.24, yet the bears are quietly pulling back rather than pressing the trade. Short interest, at 11% of free…
Short sellers have built their largest position in SOXL in over a year, with short interest hitting 11.6% of the free float as of November 3, up 58% in a single week and nearly double where it stood a month ago. The…
OPENLANE heads into the final stretch of 2026 with a stock up 9% over the past month and a share register undergoing one of its more consequential changes of the year. The most consequential development on this stock…
Cenovus Energy heads into the week after reporting earnings with the market focused less on short-term positioning and more on the structural consequences of its agreed takeover of Athabasca Oil Corporation. The most…
ADUS reported Q3 results on November 4 with the stock up 4.4% on the week to $126.55, leaving the analyst debate that defined the pre-earnings setup unchanged but now tested against an actual print. The positioning…
Suncor Energy reported its Q3 results on November 4 and the stock has barely moved, down just 1.5% on the week to CAD 105.43, while most of its closest Canadian peers fell harder. The peer group divergence is the…
PMT enters November caught between two opposing currents: short sellers have spent six weeks steadily rebuilding positions, yet options traders just flipped to their most bullish posture in months, and an analyst…
VUG bounced modestly on Tuesday but remains down 4% on the week, and the most telling development is not the price action itself but what has happened to the short book since last week's report. Short sellers have…
MTDR has now reported Q3 results, and the question shifts from whether bears were right to position aggressively into the print to whether they will hold or cover in the aftermath. Short interest came into earnings…
Coeur Mining hits its Q3 earnings release today having shed 24% over the past month, yet the positioning data around it looks remarkably calm for a stock in that kind of freefall. Short interest at 8.3% of free float…
