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MKL trades at $1,870 with Thursday's earnings release three days out, and the clearest signal is that professional investors are far more comfortable holding the stock than betting against it. Options positioning…
Eli Lilly and Company gained just 1.3% on the week while its closest pharmaceutical peers averaged 3.1%, a gap that has opened as options traders raise their defensive posture ahead of Wednesday's Q3 print. The…
KIM shares have climbed 3.1% over the past week to $23.62, outrunning every close peer ahead of its October 29 Q3 earnings release. BRX gained 1.7% over the same period, REG added 1.0%, and KRG was up just 0.3%. That…
ING Groep N.V., the Dutch diversified bank, reports third-quarter results on Thursday with its shares down 12.5% over the past month to $31.84, yet options traders are positioned with unusual bullishness relative to…
HSY reports Q3 results on October 29 with the Street broadly sceptical and short sellers edging back into the stock. Short interest has climbed to nearly 6% of the free float, up about 1.5% on the week to roughly 8.8…
L3Harris Technologies carries more short interest into its October 29 earnings release than at any point in the past year, even as the stock has outpaced most of its closest peers over the past week. Among the major US…
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reports Q3 results on October 29 carrying the most short interest in at least a year, even as its shares have added 16% over the past month to close at $268.04. Short sellers have continued…
EMCOR Group fell 10.3% over the past week to $647.66, a meaningful drop but shallower than the median decline among its closest peers. Comfort Systems USA lost 19.3% over the same stretch, IES Holdings shed 15.2%, and…
Edison International, the Southern California utility carrying wildfire liability risk into every quarterly report, releases Q3 results on October 29 against a backdrop of falling short positions, bullish options, and…
DEO heads into its October 29 results with the options market sending an unusually bullish signal, the most striking positioning shift ahead of the print. Call demand has surged relative to puts in recent weeks. The…
Deckers Outdoor reports again on October 29, just seven days after a quarterly release that sent the stock down 5.1% and triggered a wave of analyst target reductions. The post-earnings selloff has not brought much…
DVA reports third-quarter results on October 29 with short sellers cautiously positioned and the stock trading near flat on the month, but the shadow of a brutal August sell-off still hangs over the setup. The lending…
DTE Energy approaches its October 29 Q3 earnings report with options traders positioned more bullishly than usual, even as short sellers have quietly added to positions over the past month. The clearest signal comes…
D.R. Horton, the largest US homebuilder by volume, reports fiscal fourth-quarter results on Wednesday with the Street having spent the past month steadily lowering its expectations for the company. The analyst…
Vale S.A. arrives at its October 29 Q3 earnings release having shed 12.6% over the past month, trading at $12.40, while short interest has climbed roughly 35% over the same stretch to around 58.6 million shares. That…
Options positioning on LNG diverges sharply from where it sat just a week ago, even as the stock trades near its highest level of the year. The put/call ratio jumped to 0.61 on October 23, three standard deviations…
Caterpillar fell harder than almost any name in its peer group last week, dropping 6.0% to $687 against a median decline of roughly 3.5% for its closest correlated industrials. Cummins lost 2.6% over the same period.…
Camden Property Trust reports Q3 results on October 29 against a backdrop of coordinated analyst target cuts and options positioning that has pulled back sharply from last week's extremes. The options story has shifted…
Bristol-Myers Squibb reports Q3 earnings on October 29 with the analyst community more divided than its stable share price suggests. The clearest tension heading into the print is in analyst opinion, not positioning.…
BWA reports Q3 results on October 29 against a backdrop of sharply diverging signals: Wall Street's most influential names have turned decisively bullish in the past few weeks, while the shares have lost 10% in the…
