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CoStar Group reported third-quarter earnings on October 27 and fell 5% on the day. Short sellers moved quickly: positions have climbed 15.6% over the past week to 15.3 million shares, or 3.6% of the free float. That…
GLW reported earnings on October 27 and the immediate reaction has been to extend the month's losses, with the stock down another 1% on the day to $126.30, leaving it 19% below where it traded a month ago. The earnings…
KO reported Q3 results on October 27 and the bears retreated fast: short interest fell 16% over the week to 1.11% of the free float, the sharpest weekly unwind in the dataset this year. The scale of that reversal is…
Clean Harbors reported Q3 results on October 28 against a backdrop where options traders had turned sharply more cautious than at any point in recent memory, even as sell-side targets climbed and the stock drifted…
CVX shed 1.6% Tuesday to $228.23, a slightly larger daily drop than most of its closest peers, though the stock is still up 1.1% on the week, roughly in line with the 1.2% median across the peer group. Among the names…
CLS delivered a sharp one-day reversal on October 27, climbing 12% to CAD 388.33 after its Q3 earnings release. That bounce follows a brutal run: the stock is still down 25% over the past month and down 8% on the week,…
Caterpillar has recovered $26 from Monday's close, ending Tuesday at $713, but tomorrow's Q3 results make that partial rebound almost beside the point. Short sellers have not been building positions into this print.…
Capitol Federal Financial reports after the close today with an activist shareholder on the register, short interest quietly rebuilding, and options traders making their most bullish bet in months. The most newsworthy…
The uranium sector moved sharply higher this week, and CCO was part of the rally. But among its closest peers, Cameco was the quieter name. NXE gained 3.7% over the past week and DML added 5.3%. ISO and URE both…
CMS Energy filed its third-quarter results on Wednesday, and the conversation has shifted almost immediately from what shorts were doing ahead of the print to what the analyst community thinks of it after. Wells Fargo…
C.H. Robinson Worldwide reports Q3 results today, October 28, with short interest at its highest level in six weeks and analysts having cut targets sharply in the run-up to the print. Short sellers have been rebuilding…
Brown & Brown has just delivered its Q3 results, and the market's verdict is blunt: the stock fell 5% on the day to $67.55, unwinding a chunk of the 16% monthly rally that had built such bullish expectations into the…
EAT went into its October 28 earnings release with short sellers exiting, not adding, a meaningful shift from the rebuild documented just a week earlier. Short interest fell to 11% of the free float by October 27, down…
Boston Scientific reported third-quarter results today, October 28, with the stock at $45.06, still roughly 7% below the $48.33 price at which CEO Michael Mahoney bought $9 million of shares in a single discretionary…
BXP has just released its Q3 results today, and the data heading into the print told a story of two camps: short sellers adding conviction while options traders leaned the other way. Short interest built steadily…
BA has had a brutal week, falling 11.7% to $168.18, the kind of move that forces a reassessment of where the recovery story actually stands. The Q3 earnings report landed on October 27, and the market's verdict was…
Automatic Data Processing is the quietest stock in a noisy peer group this week, flat on the week while the closest comparables sold off sharply, and that relative calm is backed by some of the loosest short…
AAPL reports fiscal fourth-quarter results tomorrow, October 29, trading at $347.10 against a Street mean target of $332.39, a premium that has held despite two downgrades eight days ago and shows no sign of closing…
Amphenol reported Q3 results on October 28, and the market's reaction has shifted the story considerably since the pre-earnings note published three days ago. The stock jumped 3.9% on the day to $78.21, recovering…
American Electric Power has seen its short position shrink over the past week, even as the stock climbed to its best levels in a month, a combination that left bears caught on the wrong side of a 10% October…
