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InvenTrust Properties Corp. enters Tuesday's Q3 earnings release with short interest rising and analyst targets drifting lower, while the peer group it trades alongside has largely moved in the opposite…
Short sellers have added to their positions in ICLR at a notable pace in the days before today's earnings release. Short interest climbed 30% over the past week to 3.87% of the free float, reaching roughly 2.95 million…
Artisan Partners Asset Management reports third-quarter results on October 28 with short sellers adding positions sharply in the final days before the print, even as options traders move in the opposite…
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings enters Thursday's earnings release with short sellers pulling back sharply, even as the broader analyst community has spent the past month lowering its expectations for the stock. Short…
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions enters its Q3 print with short sellers backing away. Bearish positioning fell 10.7% over the past week to 2.5% of the free float, reaching its lowest level in at least a year. That weekly…
STAG Industrial heads into its Q3 2026 earnings report with a sharp and sudden build in short interest that stands out against an otherwise calm lending market. The most notable positioning move is the 14% single-day…
American Assets Trust stands out among its diversified REIT peers heading into Tuesday's earnings release, with short positioning notably lighter than the group. While PINE fell 8.1% over the past week and BNL dropped…
NBHC reports Q3 2026 results on October 28 with a single, well-defined question hanging over the print: how bad is the credit damage, and is it contained? The options market is not braced for disaster. The put/call…
Pilgrim's Pride reports Q3 results today having lost roughly a quarter of its value in 2026, with the Street's price targets following the stock down every step of the way. The analyst community has been consistently…
CDNA gained 2.1% on Tuesday and is up 10.8% over the past month, trading at $70.53 ahead of Thursday's Q3 results. Among its closest US diagnostics peers, NTRA rose 1.5% on the day and 1.2% on the week, while TWST…
LPL Financial Holdings drops Q3 results on October 29, with shares down 1.3% over the past week while its closest peers gained a median 1.7%, a divergence that makes the print more consequential for anyone assessing…
The Ensign Group reports its latest quarterly results today, and the stock arrives at the print down 3.7% on the week, a notably weaker run than the median gain of roughly 1.9% posted by its closest healthcare peers…
Deutsche Bank reports Q3 results on October 28 with the borrow market in the most comfortable position it has been all year, a striking contrast to the stock's 9% fall over the past month. The lending picture is…
Johnson Controls International leads today's upgrades. The building-tech firm saw its consensus rating revised upward, with the average analyst target price moving to $169.70 from $168.50. The upgrade signals growing…
ExlService Holdings reports Q3 results on October 28, and the most striking change in its positioning is not in the short book but in options, where call demand has surged to levels rarely seen over the past year. The…
TotalEnergies SE reports third-quarter results on October 29, trading at €83.00 after a 3.8% weekly gain that broadly matched the 3.6% median advance across its closest peers. The lending market tells a story of almost…
ABCB is set to report third-quarter results on October 29, and the options market has shifted sharply in the past 24 hours. The put/call ratio jumped to 0.30 on October 27, more than double its 20-day average of 0.14…
Among its closest regional bank peers, RNST carries one of the lighter short positions heading into Tuesday's earnings release. UBSI, FULT, and FNB have all gained 6% to 8% over the past week, while Renasant added just…
DXCM shares fell 8.4% over the past week to $78.56, against a median gain of roughly 2% for its closest medical device peers. Into that slide, short sellers added positions: short interest rose 8.2% in a single session…
SK hynix rose 5.2% on Tuesday to KRW 1,341,000, extending a 9.6% weekly gain that runs sharply against the grain of its closest peers, most of which fell between 6% and 12% over the same period. The lending market has…
