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Earnings season is in full swing. Palantir and Vertex Pharmaceuticals both reported after the close. ON Semiconductor CEO confirmed AI data remains the fastest-growing part of the business. Short sellers should take…
The options market is sending mixed signals in tech. Memory and storage stocks dominate both bullish and bearish flow this week. SNDK tops the negative bets leaderboard by options value. The stock is up 412%…
Truist Securities downgraded INTU to Hold from Buy on August 3. Analyst Arvind Ramnani cut his price target to $350 from $410. That is a $60 drop. Intuit carries a market cap of $86 billion. Short interest sits at 5.6%…
Short sellers are making bold moves this week. Hertz Global Holdings leads US names with SI hitting 80.9% of free float — up 2.3 percentage points in seven days. Chewy is not far behind at 81.4% of FF, also climbing…
Chips are the week's biggest story. The semiconductor ETF SOXX just logged its worst month since 2002. Bears are piling in — options show the heaviest negative flow in SNDK, MU, NVDA, AMD, and INTC. All chip names. The…
A wave of executive selling hit US stocks last week. The filings reveal heavy selling from the top, with one airline and a major bank standing out. SKYW — SkyWest — saw the biggest cluster. CEO Russell Childs filed…
Analysts made several notable calls on Monday. Industrial gas giant LIN received a rare upgrade from RBC Capital, pushing consensus higher. Arun Viswanathan cut his price target to $553 from $576 — but another RBC…
Short sellers stepped up bets across several notable names this week. CHWY tops the liquid-stock leaderboard. Its SI % FF hit 81.4%, up 2.2 percentage points in seven days. Shares are down over 10% in three months.…
Japan and China together pulled in $26.7B last week. That single number defines the current flow story. The US led by volume with $24.7B, but the intensity of buying pressure in Asian markets — Japan at 82.6 and China…
It's a packed Monday on the earnings front. Palantir, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and Marriott all report today. Tuesday brings the heaviest slate. Caterpillar and McDonald's both post at 12:30 ET. Their results will be…
Options markets are sending conflicting signals on August 3. Bearish bets are heaviest in semiconductors. Negative options flow is highest in SNDK, MU, NVDA, AMD, and INTC. All five are chip names. That is a notable…
Wall Street delivered a split verdict on Monday. Starbucks received a consensus upgrade as analysts lifted their average target price to $111.55. The coffee giant carries a $120 billion market cap. Short interest sits…
Short sellers are leaning hardest into Hertz Global Holdings right now. SI hit 80.9% of free float as of July 31. That's up 2.3 percentage points in just seven days. Shares are down 74% over three months. Zero…
A heavy earnings week kicks off today. Palantir reports tonight — markets are watching its AI-driven revenue closely. Vertex Pharmaceuticals also posts after the close. Marriott reports at 12:30 ET, offering a read on…
Options sentiment is shifting across multiple sectors this Monday. Market participants are reacting to yen intervention fears, a heavy earnings week, and a standout move in energy stocks. PBF Energy tops the ORTEX…
Today kicks off a packed earnings week. Loews reports this morning. Marriott follows at 12:30 ET. Vertex Pharmaceuticals — a $121bn biotech — posts after the close. Palantir also reports tonight. Markets will watch its…
Analyst desks were busy on Monday. Target price moves hit several names across tech, financials, and consumer staples. Seagate Technology grabbed the most attention. Analysts lifted the average consensus target to…
Charles Schwab is cashing out. The founder and co-chairman of SCHW filed disclosures showing he sold over $19.7M worth of shares between July 24 and July 29. His daughter, Director Carolyn Schwab-Pomerantz, filed a…
Short sellers are making big moves this week. HTZ — Hertz Global Holdings — now has 84.6% of its free float sold short. That's up from 74.9% just seven days ago, a jump of nearly 10 percentage points. Peer CAR — Avis…
Short sellers stepped up their bets hard last week. Several names saw their short interest jump by more than 9 percentage points of free float in just seven days. Car rental names under fire. HTZ (Hertz) now sits at…
