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Welltower is the least shorted name among its closest healthcare REIT peers heading into today's Q3 release, with short interest at 2.6% of the free float against a peer group where crowding runs materially higher in…
The Hartford Insurance Group reports third-quarter results on Tuesday morning, with the stock at $135.94 after a quiet week that left it roughly in line with most of its property and casualty peers. Options positioning…
Global Payments dropped 3.2% over the past week to close at $81.86, worse than the median decline of 0.9% across its closest payments peers, and options traders have responded by pushing protection demand to near its…
Short sellers added roughly 13 million shares to their Ford position during October, a 26% jump from late September levels before trimming slightly in the final days. The position now stands at 126.7 million shares, or…
ExxonMobil reports Q3 results before the open on Thursday, October 30, with the stock at $184.54 after a 15% gain over the past month and options traders leaning more bullish than they have in months. The options…
Short sellers have added to their Entergy Corporation positions heading into the October 30 results. Short interest reached 18.1 million shares on October 23, representing 4.0% of the free float. That is up 4.6% in a…
EMBJ heads into its October 30 results with the stock attempting to stabilise after a punishing month, and the debate now centres on whether the selloff was an overreaction or a rational re-rating. The price action…
Dominion Energy goes into its October 30 results with short sellers pulling back, not piling in. Short interest has fallen 8.6% over the past month to 2.9% of the free float, a low and declining level that signals…
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories reports its next quarterly results on October 30, and the options market has moved to its most defensive reading of the past year in the days since the October 23 print landed with a 3.9%…
Colgate-Palmolive reports its third-quarter results on October 30, and the clearest pre-earnings signal is not in the short book but in the options market, where defensive positioning has reached its most elevated…
CLX arrives at its October 30 earnings release carrying short interest that has climbed sharply over the past month, even as the stock itself has held up better than that positioning might suggest. Short sellers have…
Church & Dwight reports Q3 earnings on Thursday with one data point that stands out well above anything else in the setup: options traders have taken their most bullish position on the stock in at least 12 months. The…
CVX closed Monday at $232.01, above the consensus analyst price target of $230.67, with Q3 results due Thursday morning. The valuation gap is the defining tension entering the print. The stock has gained 13.5% over the…
CSL gained 4.7% over the past week to $345.97, roughly in line with the median move across its closest peers: TREX led the group with a 10.2% weekly advance, JBI added 6.5%, and LPX rose 5.3%, while CSW and SGO gained…
Cardinal Health trades at $251.54, up 14% over the past month, yet the Street is still adding upside. Mizuho lifted its target to $280 on October 20, and UBS pushed further to $295 the week before, both maintaining…
Brown & Brown reports Q3 results today having shed 2.6% on Monday to close at $71.08, giving back some of a 16% monthly gain that had pushed the stock within striking distance of the consensus price target. The key…
BP reports third-quarter results on October 30, coming off a 14% one-month rally to $50.53 that has drawn a fresh wave of analyst upgrades but left the debt-reduction story unfinished. The upgrade cycle is the clearest…
AME closed at $242.81 on Monday, down 3.2% over the past month but outpacing most of its closest industrial peers over the past week. The stock fell 1.8% in that period while ETN, GEV, and NVT dropped between 5% and…
Short sellers added pressure across several names this week. CoreWeave saw the sharpest move among large-cap stocks. Its SI % FF climbed 4.5 percentage points in seven days to reach 25.7%. The AI cloud provider trades…
This is one of the busiest reporting weeks of 2026. S&P Global kicks off today. Microsoft follows tomorrow after the close, reporting Q1 fiscal 2027 results. Thursday brings the two biggest prints: Amazon and Intel…
