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Performance Food Group dropped 4.3% on Tuesday to $96.51, its sharpest one-day decline in months, as a sector-wide sell-off followed Sysco's earnings-day collapse. SYY fell 9.3% on the day and 10% over the week after…
XLRE enters November with its price momentum pointing one way and its options market pointing the other, a split worth examining. The ETF gained 2.9% over the past week and is up 7% over the past month to $43.67, its…
Kura Oncology heads into its November 9 earnings report with short interest entrenched at an elevated level, options traders turning more defensive by the day, and a wide gap between where the stock trades and what the…
Ferroglobe PLC reported Q3 earnings on November 4, and the week's setup has shifted from pre-earnings optimism to a post-print reassessment, with the stock down 4.7% on the week to $3.86 even as call-heavy options…
TDOC has now added 38% in a single week, yet the short book has barely moved, and analysts are still not calling it a buy. The post-earnings momentum continued into this week. The stock closed at $8.89 on November 3,…
Westlake Chemical Partners LP enters November with a quietly constructive setup: short interest is negligible, the borrow market is loose, and its income profile continues to draw a wide gap between WLKP and its more…
IEMG has lost nearly 10% over the past month, and the lending market is quietly registering a signal worth noting: short interest has more than doubled in a week even as the borrow pool remains vast. The short interest…
EPAM Systems reports Q3 results on November 5 with an unusual setup: short sellers have been quietly cutting positions over the past week even as the stock sits nearly 11% short of its free float, and analysts have…
Xylem is a week into its recovery from the October 27 earnings collapse, and the most striking development is not what the stock has done but what short sellers have done: they have continued to exit at an accelerating…
FN jumped 15.5% on Tuesday to close at $363.33 after its quarterly print, yet the stock is still down 22% over the past month, and the forces that defined the pre-earnings setup have not disappeared. The earnings…
EchoStar added 12.8% over the past week to close at $101.94, while its closest peers moved a median of roughly flat, a sharp divergence that tracks directly with continued short covering ahead of the November 10…
Broadridge Financial Solutions reported first-quarter results on November 4 with short sellers largely unmoved, leaving the positioning story firmly in the background and analyst reactions at the front. Short interest…
Douglas Emmett has just reported Q3 results, and the stock's reaction tells the short sellers' story better than the positioning data alone: the shares fell 2.8% on the day to $9.85, adding to a 2.1% loss for the week,…
VGK is in a holding pattern this week, with short interest and options hedging both holding near the elevated levels reported in last week's note, neither retreating nor accelerating. Short interest has edged…
BYD Company Limited heads into its November 5 earnings release with short sellers pulling back and the borrow market signalling little conviction among bears. Short interest has fallen 5.5% over the past week to 6.3%…
Celanese makes specialty chemicals used in everything from car parts to electronics. Its shares closed at $50.36 on November 3, up 3.6% on the week, a sharp contrast to the red across its peer group: CC fell 1.9%, LYB…
TEVA has just reported Q3 results, and the positioning data tells a different story from the pre-earnings optimism that defined the previous two weeks. The most notable shift is in short interest. Estimated short…
CRH has had a remarkable week: a 9% gain since Monday, an earnings-day pop, a $6 billion buyback, and a wave of analyst target revisions all landing within days of each other, yet the stock closed Tuesday at $93.53…
Western Digital fell 8.8% over the past week to $347.35, a shade better than the peer median: STX dropped 9.2% and SNDK slid 13.7% over the same stretch. The relative resilience is modest but real, and it comes against…
Vulcan Materials gained 8.4% over the past week to close at $284.60, outpacing a median 6.2% weekly gain across its closest peers, but the post-earnings bounce has arrived with a fresh disagreement on the Street about…
