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WillScot Holdings enters its November 4 earnings print in an uncomfortable position: short interest has climbed 12.5% over the past month, the Street has spent the last two weeks slashing price targets, and the stock…
UBER enters its November 3 earnings report on the back foot, down 5% on the week to CAD 9.75, yet the market structure around the stock has shifted in a way that makes the setup more nuanced than the price action alone…
Wednesday is the centrepiece of the earnings calendar. MSFT and GOOGL both report fiscal results after the close. AMZN and INTC follow on Thursday. The four names carry enormous weight for the broader tech sector.…
Big Tech earnings dominate the calendar this week. Markets are rotating defensively ahead of key prints from MSFT, GOOGL, META, and AMZN. Options sentiment scores rank CI (Cigna) and AEP (American Electric Power) among…
This week brings some of the heaviest earnings traffic of the year. Today, CDNS kicks things off with its Q3 call after the close. Tomorrow brings KO and SPGI before the open, followed by HLT at 9am. CNC also reports…
California's electric vehicle market delivered one of its worst quarter-three readings in years. New ZEV registrations in the state fell 37% year-on-year to 80,392 vehicles in July 2026, according to California's new…
Wells Fargo made two bold moves on Monday. Analyst Jason Kupferberg raised his target on CTSH to $77 from $67 and kept a Buy rating. On the same note, he lifted ACN to $252 from $210, retaining a Hold. Both IT services…
The standout buy filed in early September came from UBER. President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald picked up 70,000 shares worth $5.3 million on September 4, with the trade disclosed on September 8. That is a rare…
Short sellers are adding aggressively to several well-known names. Lucid Group leads the movers. Its SI % of Free Float hit 64.3%, up from 50.4% a month ago, a 14 percentage point jump. The stock has lost 44% in three…
China led all geographies last week, pulling in $23.8B net over the period. That is the single biggest directional flow in the data, driven by a flow imbalance of 81.2, well into strong buying territory. The US added…
Host Hotels & Resorts, the US hotel REIT owning roughly 80 luxury and upper-upscale properties, saw its put-call ratio jump to 3.26 on Thursday. That is 2.6 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 1.63, and close…
Why this matters: Convergence events, where three or more distinct ORTEX data types align on a single ticker within days, are rare. This week produced one of the heaviest volumes of the year. The trigger was clear: a…
Sentiment read: Options positioning split sharply this week between earnings-driven hedging and aggressive call buying. Put-call ratios hit 52-week extremes across dozens of names, with bears piling into airlines,…
A heavy week of analyst action leaned decisively bearish, with downgrades outnumbering upgrades across technology, financials, and consumer names. Braze drew the most attention, absorbing a wave of coordinated rating…
Three signals converged on BPOP last week, and the most striking is how far the options positioning has moved relative to its own history. Among BPOP's eight closest peers, options hedging pressure is notably…
Kaiser Aluminum short sellers added roughly 146,000 shares over four consecutive daily builds through October 23, pushing the position to 1.08 million shares. That is 6.7% of the free float, up 15.8% on the week and…
Short sellers had a mixed week ending October 24. Broad covering activity hit mega-cap names, with AAPL short interest falling 32% in five days. Elsewhere, borrow costs spiked on several small-caps and earnings-linked…
The week in one paragraph: A heavy earnings calendar dominated the tape from 19 to 25 October, forcing analyst re-ratings across nearly every sector. BRZE became the week's defining story: a single-day 52% surge…
The week ahead in one paragraph: This is one of the heaviest earnings weeks of the year. MSFT and GOOGL report Wednesday after the bell, together accounting for over $7.7 trillion in combined market cap. AMZN and INTC…
Chewy (CHWY) is the most shorted US stock above $2B, with 86.5% of its free float sold short, or 3.7 days of average volume to buy back; that has moved -5.0 pts on the week. The biggest weekly build on the list was BKV…
