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NG enters tomorrow's earnings release with short interest climbing, a concentrated ownership base that remains firmly committed, and a stock down sharply over the past month. The positioning story is modest in absolute…
Netflix arrives at its October 16 earnings date carrying a 12% loss over the past month and a fresh round of analyst target cuts, making this one of the more charged pre-print setups the stock has seen this year. The…
NEOG has now printed its earnings and the stock is sitting on a 6% weekly loss at $11.96, but the positioning picture heading into the next quarter looks less adversarial than the run-up suggested. Short interest…
Nasdaq, Inc. reports Q3 results on October 22 with the stock down 4.8% over the past month, a mild target-price trim from Barclays arriving this morning, and an activist holder still on the register from a filing last…
Morgan Stanley arrives at its October 14 Q3 print with the stock down 12% over the past month, analysts still cutting targets, and a put/call ratio that has actually pulled back from its late-September peak, suggesting…
MCRI enters its October 21 earnings with an interesting split in how the market is leaning: short sellers have quietly built positions over the past month while options traders have moved sharply in the opposite…
Mohawk Industries heads into its October 29 earnings report with a fresh analyst downgrade landing on the same day short interest climbs to its highest level in over a month, a collision of signals that makes the setup…
Micron Technology has shed about 1.8% this week, a modest pullback after a 3% pop on its Q4 fiscal 2026 earnings result, and the more interesting story now is the divergence between a stock trading at $1,045 and a…
Microchip Technology heads into its November 5 earnings print with short sellers quietly adding exposure and the stock still trading well below where most analysts think it belongs. Short interest has been building…
Microsoft enters the final stretch before its October 29 earnings print having gained 4% on the week, with the analyst community in near-unanimous upgrade mode and the stock still sitting roughly 10% below a consensus…
Mettler-Toledo International heads into its November 5 earnings with an unusual split: options traders are the most defensive they have been all year, while the analyst community is quietly getting more…
MET heads into its November 4 earnings date with a rare burst of analyst conviction behind it, even as the stock trades nearly a decade behind its mean price target. A cluster of target-price raises has landed this…
MRK enters its October 29 earnings window with a familiar tension: the stock has given back ground while the analyst community remains firmly bullish, leaving a widening gap between where the shares trade and where the…
MCK posted its best weekly gain in months, climbing 6.6% to $921.67, and the Street is moving in the same direction, creating an unusually clean alignment between price action and analyst conviction heading into a…
S&P Global heads into its October 27 earnings with a notable gap between where the stock trades and where analysts think it belongs, and that gap just got a little more interesting. Morgan Stanley's Toni Kaplan cut the…
Masco Corporation arrives at its October 27 earnings date with analysts cutting numbers, shorts quietly easing, and retail attention running unusually hot. The analyst picture this week has been one of cautious…
Steven Madden heads into its November 4 earnings date with the Street leaning bullish, insiders selling, and options traders more optimistic than usual. The clearest tension is between the analyst community and the…
MGM Resorts International heads into its October 28 earnings with a striking disconnect: shorts are piling in at the fastest pace in months while options traders are growing more, not less, bullish. Short positioning…
M&T Bank reports Q3 earnings on October 16, nine days away, and the dominant story this week is a wave of target-price cuts from across the Street arriving just as the stock trades nearly 9% below its one-month…
Lincoln National heads into its October 30 earnings with short interest climbing, options skewed defensively, and a divided analyst community pulling targets in opposite directions on the same day. The clearest tension…
