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Palantir Technologies closed the week at $186.97, down fractionally on the day but still up 1.1% on the week, holding its ground while most of its software peers sold off sharply around it. The peer divergence is the…
IMNM heads into the final week of September with shorts rebuilding, options sentiment flipping sharply negative, and the stock down 15% on the week to $21.89, all while a unanimous analyst buy consensus sits 65% above…
The dynamic in DTCR has shifted since last week's note: what was a rising fund with quietly tightening borrow costs is now a falling fund with shorts accelerating their build, and the two stories are no longer…
UTZ heads into the final stretch of Q3 with a striking split personality: a stock up 37% year-to-date, trading flat on the week, yet carrying a short position that has grown almost 19% in seven days to reach 11.3% of…
SNOW closes September with short sellers edging back in, even as analysts sit firmly in the bull camp and the borrow market stays wide open. The short interest story is the most notable tension this week. Bears have…
Albertsons Companies heads into its October 13 earnings print carrying a notable contradiction: short sellers have been adding to positions for weeks, while the company's own executives were buying stock at roughly the…
Chord Energy heads into the final week of Q3 with a notable divergence: short sellers have been covering while options traders have swung decidedly more bullish, even as the stock has drifted 8% lower over the past…
Carrier Global heads into its October 29 earnings date with analyst conviction fraying at the edges and the stock down 6% over the past month to $55.38. The most newsworthy development this week came from Goldman…
ZoomInfo Technologies (GTM) heads into the final days of September with short sellers trimming positions but the fundamental story remaining deeply contested, as a stock down 14% over the past month absorbs the gap…
Annexon heads into Q3 with a striking split between insider conviction and persistent short seller pressure on a $4.13 stock that has lost 17% in a month. The most notable event this week is straightforward: CEO…
Blackstone enters its October 16 earnings date carrying its sharpest one-month decline in recent memory, with options traders piling into puts and insider sales accelerating even as short sellers quietly retreat. The…
Red Cat Holdings heads into October with 30% of its free float sold short, borrow fully exhausted, and insiders selling steadily into a stock that has lost a quarter of its value in a month. The short positioning here…
CrowdStrike closes out September with a genuine tension: short sellers who briefly blinked last week have come back with conviction, rebuilding positions into a stock that has just added 20% in a month and 5% in a week…
Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. enters the final week of September with a fresh Buy rating from a bellwether bank sitting awkwardly against a stock that has shed 10% in a month and carries one of the heavier short books…
TROX has dropped 26% over the past month to $3.99, and the Street's response has been a sequence of target cuts that shows no sign of stopping. The analyst story here is unusually bearish, and it is worth stating…
LEVI heads into its October 6 earnings report with short sellers rebuilding positions at a meaningful pace and the stock down 7% over the past month, creating a charged setup for what the Street expects to be a pivotal…
Lyft enters October with a contradictory setup: short sellers added positions at their fastest weekly pace in months, yet the stock nudged higher, closing at $15.07 after a modest 1.1% weekly gain that leaves it down…
AVTR enters the final days of September with a quietly improving technical setup. Short sellers have been cutting positions for a month, the borrow market has swung from tight to remarkably open, and a UBS target…
Dow Inc. enters its October 22 earnings date with the Street turning more cautious in real time, the most newsworthy development this week is not the stock's decline but the analyst actions landing on the final day of…
TTAN enters the final quarter of 2026 with a sharply split picture: a stock down 36% in a month trying to find a floor, while short sellers quietly rebuild positions and options traders hedge more defensively than at…
