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Restaurant Brands International heads into its October 29 earnings with short sellers unwinding, options traders firmly in call territory, and JP Morgan cutting its target on the same day the stock barely moved. The…
Crown Castle Inc. enters its October 14 earnings date having shed 7.3% in a single week and nearly 12% over the past month, with the stock at $67.07 well below where analysts think it should be trading and the Street…
UBSG heads into its October 28 earnings with a notable disconnect: the stock has recovered sharply from a difficult August, yet the people closest to the business have spent the past two months selling into every…
Synchrony Financial arrives at its October 16 earnings date with a curious split: the stock has shed 8% over the past month while short sellers have been trimming, analysts remain broadly constructive, and the…
LNTH heads into the final quarter with short sellers in retreat and the options market tilting more constructively than it has all year, even as the Street remains cautious following a bruising round of August…
Rayonier Advanced Materials heads into the final trading day of September down 12.6% on the week, closing at $8.01, with short interest grinding higher and options positioning growing more defensive. The short side has…
Alibaba has shed 7.4% this week and now trades at $107.74, putting the stock roughly where it was before the September 22 earnings pop ever registered. The lending market tells a notably different story from seven days…
Ally Financial enters the final stretch before its October 20 earnings date with a fresh downgrade from Wells Fargo landing on top of a stock already down 10% over the past month, turning what was a caution signal a…
QURE has lost nearly half its value in five trading days, a collapse that sets up one of biotech's sharper contrasts right now: shorts sitting at 15% of the float are not pressing harder, yet the stock just handed them…
Tandem Diabetes Care arrives at the end of September with short sellers adding pressure, analysts cutting targets, and the stock down 27% from where it printed Q2 results in August. Short interest is the clearest…
IQVIA Holdings enters the final stretch before its October 27 earnings with a burst of analyst upgrades pulling targets well above the current price, even as insiders have been consistently selling into the stock's…
ICLR heads into its October 21 earnings print with short interest having doubled over the past month, while options traders have swung sharply toward calls, creating an unusual divergence between two usually correlated…
ABBV closed Tuesday at $263.29, down 1.1% on the day and off 0.7% for the week, as the post-JUVMO approval glow fades and the market shifts attention to October 29 earnings. The short-side story continues to tell a…
WPP enters October in an unusual position: the analyst community has never been more uniformly positive, yet the stock closed Tuesday at £3.836, barely changed on the week and still well below where it began the…
American Tower heads into the final week of September with its stock down 4.5% on the week and 5% over the past month, a meaningful pullback against a backdrop where the Street's conviction is quietly building rather…
ServiceNow heads into its October 28 earnings with a curious split: short sellers have been cutting positions for weeks, yet the stock is down 10% over the past month and trading at $129.94, well below where most…
Palo Alto Networks heads into October with a week that put competing forces on display: the stock added 3.7% to close at $388.41, short sellers kept retreating, and options turned more bullish again, yet a high-profile…
Phillips 66 heads into its October 28 earnings date with a fresh analyst upgrade in hand, a modest short interest rebuild underway, and a stock that has given back a little ground after an extraordinary year, a setup…
XAR, the SPDR S&P Aerospace and Defense ETF, heads into the final quarter of 2026 under quiet but persistent selling pressure, with short positions growing steadily and the options market tilted heavily toward…
Perpetua Resources Corp. enters the final session of September nursing a 12% loss on the week, a sharp pullback that puts the stock back near levels last seen before summer optimism around permitting timelines took…
