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Earnings-driven hedging dominated options flows on Sunday November 1, with several names drawing attention ahead of a packed reporting calendar. Amgen heads into its Q3 results carrying a short score of 36 and an RSI…
AAPL kicks off the biggest reporting session of the week. Apple posts results today, Sunday, with its earnings call at 5pm ET. The stock carries a market cap above $5 trillion. Investors will focus on iPhone demand and…
JP Morgan lifted its target on REGN to $1,050 from $950. The bank kept its Buy rating. Regeneron's consensus average target also rose to $924, up from $869. Short interest sits at just 2.2% of the free float, a low…
An NVDA director filed $411 million in sales at the start of September, making it the largest individual insider disposal in the latest data window. Mark A. Stevens, an independent director, sold 1.85 million shares…
Short interest in Dream Finders Homes jumped 9.6 percentage points in just five days to 42.2% of free float. That is one of the largest single-week moves across US-listed small caps right now. Homebuilders are back in…
Short sellers enter November with heavy positions across semiconductors and beaten-down consumer names. Hertz carries an ORTEX short score of 86, with 73.5% of its free float shorted and cost to borrow at 150% APR.…
Options market sentiment turned negative on several heavily shorted names as November opened. Bears are leading the charge in semiconductors and beaten-down consumer names. Wolfspeed carries a short score of 78 out of…
Ferrari, Honda, Renault and Polestar all report this week. Cars are the story. ORTEX alt data adds sharp context to each print. Ferrari kicks things off on Tuesday. Austrian car registrations lead its revenue by 22…
India's vehicle registers posted their worst October in nearly a decade. New car registrations fell to 85,038 in October 2026, according to India's new car registration data by manufacturer tracked by ORTEX. That is…
Defense and healthcare names dominated analyst activity on Sunday, with Wall Street lifting price targets across a broad sweep of sectors ahead of a busy earnings week. HCA Healthcare received a target bump to $470.38,…
Tech executives are cashing out at pace. AppLovin registers the most negative ORTEX insider momentum of any large-cap US stock over the past month. The ad-tech firm's shares are down 66% year-to-date. Despite that…
Short sellers pushed harder into several US names last week. The data through 29 October shows clear winners and losers in the short book. HTZ remains one of the most squeezable names on the market. Short interest hit…
Japan dominated the week's geography story. ETFs focused on Japanese equities pulled in $6.9B over seven days. The flow imbalance hit 91.7, meaning almost all the gross activity was buying. That is a sharp reversal…
The week's biggest story is the earnings queue for automakers, set against collapsing real-world demand data. Ferrari reports Tuesday and Polestar follows Wednesday. ORTEX Alt Data shows India recorded just 85,038 new…
Options markets are pointing to heightened caution in semiconductors as November's first session opens. The biggest signal comes from NVDA, which carries 12 active expiry dates through January 2027. The density of…
Tomorrow kicks off a busy earnings stretch. Ferrari reports on Tuesday, 3 November. Polestar follows on Wednesday. The backdrop for both is difficult. India recorded just 85,038 new car registrations in October 2026,…
Analyst target prices moved broadly higher this week. Defence, healthcare, and industrials dominated the upgrade cycle. L3Harris Technologies saw its consensus target lift to $331.53 from $327.61. The defence…
The most striking open-market insider transaction in the latest available data is the ROBOTIS CEO Kim Byeong Soo, who sold 366,525 shares in the South Korean robotics firm for approximately $75 million on September 8.…
Short sellers are moving fast this week. The biggest jump among large-cap names belongs to LQDA (Liquidia Corporation). Its SI % FF rose to 26.6%, up 8.1 percentage points in seven days. That is a sharp escalation for…
The global auto sector enters November with weak real-economy data pulling at earnings expectations. India posted just 85,038 new car registrations in October 2026, the smallest October on record since 2017. The prior…
