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Ethan Allen Interiors reports after the close today carrying an unusual combination of pressures: short interest has jumped 10% in a week, ORTEX forecasts deletion from multiple MSCI indices in November, and the stock…
Essex Property Trust reported third-quarter results today, and the first market reaction is a modest short-covering move after bears had built their largest position in over a year heading into the print. Short…
eBay fell 2.8% over the past week to $117.83, lagging a peer median that gained roughly 0.5%, with ETSY flat and PDD down 4% over the same stretch. Q3 earnings drop tonight after the close, and the setup has shifted…
Short sellers have been quietly rebuilding positions in DCO this month, pushing short interest to its highest level in at least a year just days before the aerospace components maker reports quarterly results. Short…
DIS approaches its November 11 earnings release with short sellers adding modestly to positions, even as the broader lending market remains among the most relaxed in the large-cap media universe. Short interest has…
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…
