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PPG Industries gained 4.4% over the past week while the median move among its closest specialty chemicals peers was less than half a percent, with SHW falling 3% and RPM losing 1.7%. PPG's own number is 3.2% of the…
ORCL reported fiscal Q1 results on October 28, closing the day up 3.5% to $130.53, a welcome break from a seven-week decline that had taken the stock from $162.52 in early September to a low of $125.54 on October 22.…
ONEOK has just delivered its Q3 earnings report, and the setup heading into the print proved accurate: shorts at multi-month lows, borrow conditions deeply relaxed, and a stock that added 3.4% on the week to…
Old Dominion Freight Line reported today with the market already pricing in a tough freight environment. Now a second story is emerging alongside the earnings reaction: the stock sits 0.3% below the exit line for the…
OGE Energy Corp. reported earnings this morning, with the stock up 2.9% on the week to $48.91, a performance that broadly matched its regulated utility peers and arrived after the most heavily shorted period of the…
NVIDIA closed Tuesday at $217.94, up less than 1% on the day and roughly 0.7% on the week, a recovery from the $210.96 low reported in Monday's stock note but still lagging the 1.5% median gain posted by its closest…
Nucor delivered a strong Q3 result last week, and the stock has responded with its best two-day run in months, leaving analysts scrambling to update numbers that now look too conservative. The stock closed Tuesday at…
NiSource filed its third-quarter results today with short sellers already in retreat, analyst coverage freshly expanded, and options traders showing no sign of concern. The pre-earnings short build documented in…
Newmont Corporation, the world's largest gold miner, fell 7.1% when it reported Q3 results on October 22 and has shed another 3.6% over the past week to trade at $112.64, putting the stock 7.2% lower on the month. The…
Netflix has now fallen 9% over the past week to $62.52, a move that stands out sharply against a median peer decline of 0.6%, as the gap between where analysts say the stock is worth and where it is actually trading…
NOV has now reported Q3 results, and the question shifts from whether the print could surprise to whether management's outlook is enough to justify shorts maintaining a position of 7.6% of the free float into a stock…
HOPE reported Q3 results on October 28 with short sellers meaningfully more active than a month ago, yet the borrow market is so loose that the pressure reads as directional repositioning rather than a squeeze in the…
NBT Bancorp has just delivered its Q3 results, and the data picture surrounding the print is one of bears stepping back rather than pressing their case. Short interest came into the earnings day at 5.1% of the free…
MCO fell 2.2% on Tuesday to close at $474, giving back most of the post-earnings bounce and widening its underperformance gap against a peer group that added a median 1.8% on the week. Short interest has climbed…
MCRI reported Q3 results on October 27 and the stock barely moved, closing at $115.28 with a loss of less than 1% on the day. The week's most interesting question is whether that muted reaction signals genuine…
Micron Technology gained 3.6% this week to close at $928.76, outperforming a median decline of 2.8% among its closest semiconductor peers, even as the stock remains 15% below its October 1 peak of $1,097. The recovery…
Microchip Technology is one of the least crowded names in its semiconductor peer group right now, even as the sector broadly rallies into earnings season. Short interest at just under 5.9% of free float places MCHP…
MSTR is a leveraged bitcoin vehicle that reports its October quarter results tonight, October 29, and the week has brought two notable data shifts that change the texture of the setup: short interest has continued its…
Microsoft reported its fiscal first-quarter results on the evening of October 28, closing a week in which the stock barely moved and the data around it told a story of calm confidence rather than hedged…
MRCY enters its November 3 earnings report with short interest at its highest level in over a year, yet the stock has outrun nearly every peer this week, a tension worth unpacking before the print. Short interest…
