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KKR reports Q3 results on October 30 with options traders running notably more defensive than at any point in the past year, even as the stock has recovered ground and the borrow market shows no trace of stress. The…
Equitable Holdings reports Q3 results on October 30, carrying a story that extends well beyond the quarterly print: the company's agreed takeover of Corebridge Financial is drawing index tracker attention and reshaping…
NVT reports Q3 results on Thursday morning with short interest at its highest level in at least a year, options at the most defensive reading of the past 52 weeks, and the stock down 21% over the past month to $129.18,…
The most striking open-market buying in the latest filing window came from Shenzhou International Group Holdings, the Hong Kong-listed garment maker. Executive Chairman Ma Jianrong filed four separate purchases between…
YUMC reports Q3 results on October 30, with the stock up 12.5% over the past month yet trading at a 27% discount to the analyst consensus target of $62.17, a gap that frames the print as a valuation catalyst rather…
American Tower reports Q3 results today with its shares at $188.28, up nearly 3% over the past week and more than 11% over the past month, extending a recovery that followed a 7.5% one-day jump after the last quarterly…
LYB has gained 16% over the past month and 5.7% in the past week, moving sharply against a peer median of -0.4%, as short sellers reduce exposure ahead of Thursday's Q3 report. Short interest has fallen 14.6% over the…
NWG reports third-quarter results on Thursday morning with options positioning telling a more optimistic story than the past several months. The put/call ratio dropped to 0.88 on Monday, almost two standard deviations…
Short sellers have added to positions in RBC Bearings at the fastest pace in over a year, with short interest climbing 14% over the past month to roughly 598,000 shares. That puts the borrowed position at 1.9% of free…
UL reports Q3 results on Thursday with short sellers making only the most modest commitments against the stock, and the broader market showing no urgency to hedge. Short interest has drifted between 4.7 million and 5.6…
Toyota Motor reports its latest quarterly results on Thursday, October 30, with the stock up about 4% over the past month to $197.64. The most significant shift since the previous ORTEX note ten days ago is in the…
Sun Communities reports Q3 results today with options markets leaning decisively bullish, even as a wall of analyst target cuts frames a tighter debate about the REIT's near-term trajectory. The options shift is the…
Regal Rexnord reports Q3 results on Thursday with options positioning making a sharp break from the defensive posture that defined much of the past two months. The put/call ratio has fallen to 0.87, more than two…
RELX reported Q3 revenue of $2.84bn, up 8% year over year, just over a week ago. The stock rose 5.1% on that day and added another 11.8% over the following five days. Now it reports again on Thursday, and the options…
Public Storage short sellers added roughly 880,000 shares over the past month, lifting short interest to nearly 6.94 million shares. That represents 3.96% of the free float, up 13.5% from a month ago, though the pace…
Omega Healthcare Investors has accumulated a notably larger short position over the past month, even as the stock has pushed higher into Thursday's earnings release. Short interest in OHI climbed 20.5% over the past 30…
Nucor Corporation, the largest US steel producer by volume, releases third-quarter results today after weeks of mixed signals from the people closest to the company and the analysts covering it. The clearest…
MRK closed Monday at $140.61, down 3.2% on the day and 2.1% on the week, a notably weak session given that its closest pharmaceutical peers gained between 1.2% and 4.9% over the same period. JNJ added 4.9% on the week,…
Martin Marietta Materials enters Thursday's third-quarter release carrying the most consequential piece of news on its register: an activist on the shareholder list. LNA Holding SRL filed a Schedule 13D in August…
LYG options traders have kept their defensive posture since the previous earnings preview published four days ago, with the put/call ratio easing only marginally to 1.75 from its near-annual peak of 1.79. The options…
