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Uber President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed a $4.1 million open-market share purchase on 8 September, one of the most significant discretionary buys reported in recent weeks. The trade covered 38,000 shares at an…
Short sellers moved fast this week. The biggest jump in short interest came from LQDA, where bearish positioning rose 8 percentage points in seven days to 26.7% of free float. GRND was not far behind. Short interest on…
China ETFs pulled in $22.5B net over the past week. That is the single biggest geographical flow of the week, beating even U.S.-focused funds at $20.4B. The China number is striking on its own. Over three months, China…
Three distinct signals converged on ALG this week. Short positions climbed sharply, borrow costs rose, and options buyers flipped toward calls at a pace rarely seen in the past month. Short interest in Alamo Group rose…
Retail attention for NVT jumped to 3.67 standard deviations above its 90-day average on Tuesday, per Wikipedia views and ORTEX page traffic, the same day the stock gained 4.1%. That pop brings shares to $134.53, still…
ABEV carries the lightest short position in its ORTEX history. That stands in contrast to the options market, where put buying has pushed the put/call ratio to its most defensive reading in weeks, right before…
UWMC has rallied 42% in a week. Now its only remaining Buy-rated analyst has turned cautious, and the stock's borrow market is almost entirely frozen. Compass Point's Jason Stewart downgraded UWMC to Neutral from Buy…
Procter & Gamble options are running their most call-heavy in over a month. The put/call ratio hit 0.6247 on October 27, sitting 2.1 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 0.7051. The 52-week low is 0.588, so the…
Microsoft and Alphabet report today after the close. Microsoft carries a $3.96 trillion market cap into its print. Alphabet follows at $1.86 trillion. Both results will set the tone for the rest of earnings season.…
Big Tech prints are days away. Options sentiment is shifting fast around the names that matter most. Norwegian Cruise Line stands out as a notable bearish setup. Its short score sits at 68.9 and days-to-cover is over…
Microsoft and Alphabet both report today after the close, making Wednesday one of the busiest earnings days of the quarter. Microsoft carries a $3.96 trillion market cap into its print. Alphabet follows at $1.86…
Short sellers have pulled back from WAY in the days before its earnings report, with short interest falling roughly 5% in a single session on October 26 to 16.1 million shares, or 8.4% of the free float. That remains a…
Constellium SE reports Q3 results on October 28 with short sellers meaningfully less convicted than they were a month ago, even as the stock itself has pulled back from recent highs. The positioning shift is the…
TFI International, the Montreal-based trucking and logistics group, reports its third-quarter results on October 29. Short interest has doubled over the past month to its highest level in at least a year, a move that…
The data surrounding YZCA ahead of its October 30 earnings release is unusually sparse, making the setup itself the story. The most immediate problem for any pre-print analysis is the price feed. The last recorded…
GGRM arrives at its October 30 earnings release having jumped 4.3% on Tuesday and 9.8% over the past week, the sharpest short-term run the stock has seen in recent months. There is no meaningful short position to speak…
Tivoli A/S reports tomorrow morning with a stock that has not moved in a month and a lending market that remains comfortable rather than stressed. The dominant feature of the ownership picture is structural: Chr.…
West Fraser Timber reports Q3 results today against a backdrop of lumber sector momentum it has so far failed to fully capture. The most striking feature of the setup is peer divergence. Canadian lumber names have run…
INIO heads into its October 28 earnings release with Wall Street still broadly bullish but visibly less confident than it was just months ago. The analyst story is the sharpest tension in the setup. JP Morgan's Mark…
MIAX reports Q3 results after the close tomorrow with short interest running at its highest level in months, even as options traders show little sign of concern. Short sellers have added roughly 22% to their positions…
