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Western Digital gained 4.5% this week to $380.88, a sharp contrast to its closest peers: STX fell 1.1% and SNDK dropped 4.4%. That outperformance is notable given WDC dropped 9.2% after its October 22 print. The stock…
Werner Enterprises reported earnings on October 28, and the stock's 3.7% bounce on the day suggests traders found something to hold onto, even after a month of aggressive analyst downgrades. The options market had been…
Waste Management reported Q3 results on October 27 and the stock's most interesting story is not what happened on the print, but what happened to positioning heading into it and where the analyst debate now sits…
W. P. Carey sits in a more crowded corner of the net-lease REIT space than most of its closest peers right now, with short interest at 4.5% of the free float. That is a meaningful gap above comparable names: EPRT…
Vulcan Materials reaches its Q3 earnings date on October 29 with the most dramatic short-covering of the past year compressing positioning to a 12-month low, even as analysts spent October ratcheting targets lower. The…
VTR fell 4.7% on October 27 to close at $83.34, the sharpest single-day drop among the larger healthcare REITs, and the week's 3.6% decline stands out against a median loss of roughly 0.4% across its closest peers. The…
Valero Energy slid 10.6% on the week to $387.34, roughly in line with a broad refining sector selloff, yet the short-side data continues to move in the opposite direction from what the price action might suggest. Among…
VSE Corporation drops into its Q3 earnings release tonight with short interest at an 11-month high and the stock down 18% over the past month, a setup that puts the execution story squarely in focus. Short positions…
V.F. Corporation has now delivered its earnings, the event the pre-report note framed as the key test, and the market's reaction so far looks more restrained than the analyst re-rating implied it should. The stock…
Universal Health Services has delivered its Q3 results and the market's verdict was swift: the bullish options positioning that dominated the lead-up to earnings has collapsed, replaced by a 4.5% drop on the day to…
UnitedHealth Group stands out this week not because of what the short book is doing, but because of what it just did: after 18 sessions frozen at 15.95 million shares, shorts cut their position by 12% in a single…
United Therapeutics stands apart from its closest peers this week: while the median correlated name fell 1.8%, UTHR climbed 6.7% to $591.20, driven by a short position that collapsed rather than held. The short squeeze…
RTX Corporation sits just above $194 this week, a dollar higher than last Tuesday's close but with the Street divided on whether the post-earnings rally has further legs. The analyst picture is the most telling data…
UPS delivered its Q3 results on October 27 and the market responded with the stock's strongest weekly gain in months, rising 7.7% to $106.09, with analysts immediately revising targets higher in the wake of the…
UMB Financial has just reported Q3 results, and with earnings out of the way, the conversation shifts to a mechanical catalyst that could move more money than any quarterly beat or miss: a potential Russell index…
Trustmark Corporation reported its Q3 results today against a backdrop where the short interest story that dominated the pre-earnings note has already begun to reverse. Short sellers had driven the position up nearly…
Thomson Reuters enters its November 3 earnings release with an awkward backdrop: the stock fell 4.5% on October 27 even as it holds a 3.2% gain on the week, and its controlling shareholder has been a steady net seller…
Short sellers have added aggressively to their positions in TEX this week. Short interest climbed 29% over the past five sessions to reach 12.4% of the free float, the highest level recorded in at least a year, and the…
TER posted its quarterly results on October 28, and short sellers spent the preceding week unwinding positions that had been building since mid-September, with the stock bouncing 4.8% on the day even as the monthly…
Sun Communities reported Q3 results on October 28 with the stock already down 4.1% from earlier in the week, having reversed a pre-earnings rally and closed at $114.97, a 3.7% loss on the week against a median gain of…
