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Three distinct forces are pulling on FN at once. Short interest just jumped 13.3% in a single day. Analysts are cutting targets aggressively. And ORTEX forecasts the stock is almost certain to be dropped from several…
Meta Platforms reports Q3 results tomorrow, October 28. Short interest dropped 15% in a single day to 1.31% of free float on October 26. Retail attention hit a 90-day peak at the same time. Why this matters: Three…
A single outlier call is testing Wall Street's consensus on Valero Energy. Every other analyst who has touched the stock this week raised their target. One cut it by 35%. Freedom Broker's Sergey Pigarev downgraded…
Why this matters: Procter & Gamble delivered a 4% sales beat on October 22. Five days later, analysts are still raising targets and the remaining short position is evaporating. The data is pointing in one…
The most concentrated earnings run of the season is underway. MSFT and GOOGL both report after Tuesday's close. AMZN and INTC follow on Wednesday. Together, the four names carry more than $13 trillion in combined…
Earnings-week options activity is at its most concentrated in months. Meta Platforms, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet all report this week. Together they carry trillions in market cap and some of the heaviest options…
The busiest earnings stretch of the season runs from today through Thursday. Four mega-cap names alone account for more than $13 trillion in combined market value. MSFT fires the starting gun after Tuesday's close,…
The most striking reading in the ORTEX alternative data layer this week comes from the nuclear output dataset. TLN Talen Energy Corporation's reactor output fell 10.0 standard deviations below its own history as of 9…
Analysts trimmed targets across several names this week, with Fair Isaac Corporation drawing the most pointed action. The consensus rating on FICO was downgraded, with the average target price falling from $1,007 to…
The most striking open-market purchase in the latest filings came from UBER. Andrew Gordon MacDonald, President and COO, filed on 8 September to disclose a buy of 54,325 shares at $75.65 apiece, a transaction worth…
Short sellers have been busy this week. CoreWeave saw the sharpest rise among large-cap names. Its SI % FF climbed 4.5 percentage points over seven days to 25.7%. The AI infrastructure stock has drawn sceptics since…
China ETFs pulled in a net $19.9B in the past week, the single largest geographic inflow across the entire fund flow universe. That is four times larger than the $4.9B that flowed into Japan over the same period. Over…
Lockheed Martin gained 15.9% over the past week, leaving its closest defense peers well behind: RTX added 2.8%, NOC rose 10.7%, and LHX gained 6.7%. The gap widened further on Monday, with LMT up another 5.1% to…
Options markets are pricing a packed earnings week. Chips and mega-cap tech sit at the centre of the action. AMD, MSFT, META, and AMZN are all due to report, with TSLA also in the queue. ORTEX options sentiment data…
This week's biggest event risk sits in two earnings calls. Microsoft reports Tuesday after the close. Amazon follows Wednesday. Both carry market caps above $2.5 trillion. Options flow is two-sided in each name,…
Tech earnings week is pulling options flow into semiconductors and mega-cap names. Micron Technology leads both positive and negative options bets over the past seven days. It sits at the top of the ORTEX options…
Microsoft and Amazon dominate the calendar this week. Both companies report against a backdrop of surging cloud demand and AI infrastructure spend. Microsoft holds its earnings call Tuesday after the close. Amazon…
Trican Well Service reports Q3 results today against a backdrop of rising prices and easing short pressure, but with analyst targets suggesting the stock has not yet fully priced in the recovery. The most striking…
Patrick Industries added 6.1% over the past week to $70.46, a move that stands out sharply against a peer group that was essentially flat. Closest comparable LCII gained 7.3%, but GNTX dropped 1.1% and ALV shed 1.0%,…
Galaxy Digital Inc. reports today with short interest at its highest level in at least a year and options traders pulling hard in the opposite direction. Short interest has climbed to 17.5% of the free float, roughly…
