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Short interest in BRX has climbed to 8.9% of the free float, the highest reading in at least a year, after rising 51% over the past month. The bulk of that build came in one week, with shorts adding around 4.6 million…
Meta Platforms reports Q3 results on October 28 with shares down 13% over the past month to $642.62, yet the analyst community raised price targets in near-unison last week, creating the starkest gap between Wall…
MakeMyTrip reports its fiscal second-quarter results today against a sharply deteriorating price backdrop, making the relationship between short-term sentiment and the longer-term analyst bull case the central tension…
Fortinet reports Q3 2026 results on October 28, and the cybersecurity platform's short sellers have spent the past month getting out of the way. Short interest has fallen 14% over the last month to just 1.6% of the…
Volkswagen AG reports third-quarter results on October 29, carrying a stock down 8% over the past month to €69.10, against a consensus analyst price target of roughly €102. The borrow market tells a relaxed story.…
Gerdau S.A. reports Q3 2026 results on October 26 with one of the cleanest short books in the Brazilian steel sector, but the stock's persistent drift lower has raised a different set of questions for investors heading…
Monolithic Power Systems reports Q3 results on Wednesday after markets close, with options positioning the clearest signal of how investors are leaning into the event. Put demand has climbed noticeably ahead of the…
GOOGL dropped 6% in the five days to $320.21, its steepest weekly decline in recent months, while the median move across its closest correlated peers was less than 1%. That gap matters: the stock is now sitting nearly…
Western Digital has outpaced its closest storage peers over the past week, gaining 3.5% to $343.67 while STX fell 1.3% and SNDK dropped 4.7%. That relative firmness follows October 22's reported quarter, which sent the…
Simpson Manufacturing reports its Q3 results today with the bear positioning that built through September now showing early signs of retreat, even as the stock has recovered sharply from the lows that preceded the last…
Principal Financial Group reports Q3 results today with short sellers actually reducing their exposure, even as analysts across the Street have spent the past month cutting price targets. Short interest in PFG has…
MSTR is a leveraged bitcoin vehicle wrapped in an enterprise software business, and it goes into Wednesday's October 28 results in a more comfortable position than three weeks ago. The stock has recovered 6.7% this…
Microsoft reports its fiscal first-quarter results on October 28 against a backdrop where the analyst community and the positioning data are telling unusually consistent stories, and neither is cautious. The options…
Intel reports Q4 results on October 29 with short sellers unmoved by the stock's brutal October correction, borrow conditions still frictionless, and a Street consensus that has shifted from outright hostility to…
Cincinnati Financial Corporation reports Q3 results after the close on October 26, with the stock at $176.30 after a 6.3% gain over the past month and short sellers at their most cautious in weeks. Options positioning…
CLS fell 15.1% in the past week, closing at CAD 364.40 on October 23, a move that dwarfs the median decline of 5.8% across its closest peers. That gap is the central tension heading into today's Q3 print: the stock has…
Cadence Design Systems is the quietest name in a peer group that has been anything but quiet this week, with the stock slipping 0.9% over the past seven days while its closest correlated software and EDA names posted a…
Bank of Hawaii Corporation carries more short interest than any point in at least the past year, with 10.2% of its free float sold short as of October 22. That is above most of its closest regional bank peers: COLB…
AAPL closed Friday at $347.73, up 1.2% on the week, and now sits roughly 5.6% above the Street's mean price target of $329.25. That premium has rebuilt since Tuesday's pullback to $339.50, when two fresh downgrades…
Amkor Technology, the semiconductor packaging and testing company, reports Q3 results after the close today, with the stock down 28% over the past month and sitting roughly 47% below the consensus analyst price…
