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Chimera Investment Corporation enters the final day of Q3 with a bruising week behind it: the stock has fallen 8.5% in five sessions to $10.20, and short interest has nearly doubled over the past month. The most…
XNTK heads into the final session of September with short positions rebuilding sharply and options traders maintaining a more defensive stance than usual, even as the fund holds near its monthly highs. The most notable…
QQQ ends the week in a calmer place than the previous two notes described, with short interest continuing to shrink, the borrow market loosening materially, and the short score pulling back from its mid-September…
KTOS is caught in an awkward moment: the stock has dropped 17% over the past month to $43.05, yet short sellers are quietly exiting, options traders are turning more bullish, and every analyst on the Street has a…
Cinemark Holdings heads into October with shorts trimming exposure and options positioning shifting away from its most defensive extreme, even as the stock trades just below consensus targets. Short interest has pulled…
Super Micro Computer closed the week at $41.02, essentially flat on the week, but the more consequential move has been under the surface: short sellers who rebuilt aggressively into mid-September weakness have now cut…
AeroVironment heads into the final stretch of September with its stock down 8.3% on the week and options traders pricing in the most defensive posture seen in months. The clearest signal this week is in the options…
FSLR heads into its October 27 earnings with short sellers maintaining elevated positions, options traders still more defensive than usual, and a fresh round of analyst target cuts arriving this week. Short interest…
PAYS enters October with an unusual tension: the sell-side is getting more bullish just as short sellers are quietly adding to their positions. DA Davidson raised its price target on Paysign to $15 from $12 on…
Travel + Leisure Co. heads into its October 21 earnings date with short sellers quietly reducing positions, the stock down 10% from last month's highs, and analysts maintaining a bullish consensus that implies more…
Mastercard heads into the final stretch before its October 29 earnings with options traders still more defensive than usual, even as the stock recovered slightly from last week's close and short sellers continue their…
USO enters the final day of September with short interest at its most extreme reading in months, a lending market locked almost completely shut, and crude exposure dropping nearly 4.5% in a single session. The short…
Portland General Electric has had a rough week, dropping 6% against a backdrop of coordinated analyst target cuts and options positioning that has swung sharply to the most call-heavy reading of the past year. The…
TransDigm Group closes the week with analysts taking fresh aim at its valuation and short sellers rebuilding positions, yet options traders have quietly shifted away from the bullish extreme that defined the prior…
Chipotle Mexican Grill heads into its October 28 earnings with short sellers adding positions into a 16% monthly decline, even as key peers post strong weekly gains. The stock closed at $31.88 on September 29, down…
AT&T closes out the week with the bullish options momentum from last week's BNP Paribas upgrade now visibly cooling, even as analyst targets continue to edge higher. The shift in options positioning is the clearest…
GameStop closes out September at $23.76, down 1% on the week, and the question that matters is increasingly simple: Ryan Cohen has spent roughly $59 million buying shares in the open market over the past 90 days, and…
CF Industries ends the week with short sellers maintaining pressure, the Street split three ways, and the stock down 4% in five sessions to $115.71. Short interest has continued its climb since Monday's note flagged…
EXPE has shed another leg lower since the last note, now down 19% over the past month to $266.33, and the positioning picture has shifted: short sellers rebuilt aggressively this week even as the stock ticked up 0.8%…
ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES heads into its November earnings with a notable shift in short positioning over the past two weeks, even as Tuesday's 6.7% single-day drop complicated a strong month for the stock. The most…
