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PACCAR Rallies 9% on Earnings Beat as Street Lifts Targets

PCAR just delivered its strongest week in months, with the stock jumping 9.5% to $138.21 — and the catalyst is straightforward: quarterly results released Tuesday afternoon triggered an immediate re-rating from the…

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Morgan Stanley Downgrade Lands Days Before OKE Earnings

ONEOK heads into its August 3 earnings report with the most significant analyst cut of the year landing just hours ago — and a stock already down 3.3% on the week. The catalyst for this week's pressure is clear. Morgan…

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NVDA Holds $197 as Peers Crater and August 19 Looms

NVIDIA is clinging to the $197 level after last week's 5% breakdown, but the more interesting story this week is what's happening around it — the semiconductor peer group has been hit far harder, and the August 19…

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Nucor Analysts Chase the Rally as Earnings Loom

NUE heads into its July 30 earnings release with analysts racing to catch up to a stock that has already moved — and options traders still hedging hard despite a 14% week. The analyst response to this week's rally has…

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NWBI Posts Earnings Gain as Analyst Lifts Target

Northwest Bancshares reported Q2 earnings on July 28, and the stock responded with a 3.2% gain — a clean beat of expectations that prompted the most meaningful analyst move on the name in months. DA Davidson's Jeff…

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Monro Shorts Rebuild Ahead of August Earnings

MNRO heads into its August 11 earnings print with a notable contradiction: short interest has climbed roughly 5% over the past week even as the stock holds near $17.20, and options traders are among the least defensive…

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MU Slides Again — CEO Sells Into the Drop

Micron Technology has now fallen 15% on the week and 28% over the past month, trading at $820.53, as the CXMT-driven pressure documented last week continues to compound — and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra chose July 24 to sell…

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MSTR: Options Flip Bullish as Earnings Land Tomorrow

MSTR arrives at its July 30 earnings release with a notable shift in the options picture — the call-heavy defensive reversal documented in Monday's note has unwound, and flow has rotated back toward calls even as the…

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MSFT Reports Tonight — Stock Up 1% But Peers Left It Behind

Microsoft heads into its Q4 2026 earnings release tonight with the stock recovered to $393.35, but a stark contrast has opened up with close peers that makes the bounce look modest at best. The peer divergence is the…

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MRK Adds $0.75 Ahead of August 4 Earnings

Merck & Co. enters its August 4 Q2 earnings call with Barclays lifting its target to $150 that same morning — the most bullish Street action yet in a month of relentless upward revisions. The analyst tide has been…

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SPGI Earnings Day: Analysts Lift Targets While Stock Slides

S&P Global has reported Q2 results with the stock sitting at $424.36 — down 3.5% on Tuesday and off 1.6% on the week — yet the analyst community responded by raising price targets, creating a sharp divergence between…

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McCormick Options Flare as Shorts Quietly Retreat

MKC heads into the back half of July with a split signal: short sellers are cutting exposure at a notable pace, yet options traders are suddenly the most defensive they've been in months. The options market is sending…

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MHO Earnings Day: Shorts Retreat as Sector Rallies

M/I Homes reported second-quarter earnings today with short sellers already in retreat and the broader homebuilder group posting its best week in months — a setup that sets the stock's near-term direction firmly around…

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MGM Reports Today — Shorts Rebuilding Into the Print

MGM Resorts International walks into its Q2 earnings release today with short sellers adding exposure at a faster pace than at any point in the past month, even as options traders remain notably calm. Short interest…

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LMT Surges 15% After Q2 Beat — Street Plays Catch-Up

Lockheed Martin just delivered the week's most striking defense-sector move: a 15% gain that compressed the discount to analyst targets from 17% to roughly 8%, rewired the options market, and left shorts nursing losses…

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