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Howmet Aerospace drops into its October 29 earnings report having shed 15.9% over the past week, against a median decline of around 5% for its closest aerospace peers, a divergence that makes the print more than a…
TechnipFMC gained just 0.3% over the past week, a sharp underperformance against a median gain of 4.6% across its closest oilfield services peers. NOV added 4.4%, HP rose 4.1%, and Seadrill and Noble each climbed more…
Twilio has attracted a meaningful build-up of short positions over the past month, with short interest rising 40% since late September to reach 6.74 million shares, or 4.4% of the free float. The weekly trend tells a…
Short sellers have been quietly reducing exposure to GDDY ahead of Thursday's Q3 print. Short interest has fallen nearly 6% over the past week to around 4.6% of the free float, with the one-month picture telling a more…
Options traders have turned meaningfully more cautious on QSR in the days before its October 29 earnings report, even as short sellers quietly pare back positions. The clearest signal going into Thursday is in the…
Short positioning in W has built steadily while the stock itself has drifted higher, creating an unusual gap between bearish conviction in the lending market and price momentum. Home furnishings peer WSM carries a…
Intercontinental Exchange is the least shorted name among its closest exchange-sector peers, yet it has also been the weakest performer over the past week, rising just 0.7% while the peer median gained 4.4%. Short…
Short sellers have largely walked away from ABBV, with short interest now at its lowest level in at least a year. The position has been cut nearly in half since mid-September, when shorts held more than 20 million…
Huntington Ingalls Industries enters its October 29 earnings release with options positioning more cautious than usual, even as the broader lending market remains completely unbothered by the approaching print. Options…
Takeda Pharmaceutical reports its latest quarterly results on October 29, trading at $20.24 on the NYSE after gaining nearly 7% over the past month. The most telling signal ahead of the print is the direction of…
H reports Q3 earnings on Wednesday with short sellers sitting on their largest position in months, even as the stock has recovered sharply from October lows. Short interest has climbed to 13.5% of the free float, up…
BUD reports third-quarter results on October 29 with short sellers on the run and the lending market far looser than it was six weeks ago. Short interest has fallen nearly 30% over the past month, dropping from around…
Short sellers have been rebuilding positions in XPO over the past month, with short interest climbing nearly 10% since late September to reach 6% of the free float. The move has been gradual rather than aggressive: the…
Mastercard reports Q3 results on October 29, and the most coherent story in the data is one of convergence: analysts raising targets, short sellers reducing positions, and the stock trading near its highest level of…
Digital Realty Trust closed at $172.37 on Friday, down 7.2% over the past month and off a further 2.0% on the week, a stretch of weakness that cuts against a unanimous buy-side consensus and a mean analyst price target…
CBRE has shed 7.3% over the past week and 12.6% over the past month, arriving at $123.30 ahead of its October 29 earnings release in notably worse shape than when analysts last updated their targets. Options…
SouthState Bank Corporation reports its next set of results on October 29, and the most notable change since its Q3 print last week is a sharp pivot in options positioning. The put/call ratio reached 0.39 on October…
Shinhan Financial Group has shed nearly 20% over the past month to $66.30, deepening the selloff since the earlier preview was published, and the stock slipped another 2.4% on Friday alone. Against that backdrop,…
CRH has seen more than half a dozen price-target cuts in the past three weeks, with the consensus now sitting at $122.72 against a stock trading at $84.89, a gap of roughly 44% that reflects how far the shares have…
Trane Technologies fell 3.0% over the past week to $444.90, the weakest move in its peer group. JCI slipped just 1.0%, CARR gained 2.3%, and LII rose 5.1% over the same period. Trane's underperformance stands out…
