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Cal-Maine Foods enters October with a week's worth of contradictory signals: short sellers have been rebuilding positions into a 14% monthly decline, yet the borrow market remains far too loose to suggest any squeeze…
CTS Corporation heads into its October 27 earnings report with short sellers rebuilding positions at an unusual pace, even as the stock holds up near year-to-date highs. Short interest has climbed 50% over the past…
Bristol-Myers Squibb heads into its October 29 earnings date with options traders more defensive than they have been for most of the past year, even as short sellers quietly reduce their positions. The clearest tension…
BA closed Tuesday at $187.68, up 1.8% on the day but still down 5% on the week and more than 10% over the past month, leaving the stock nearly $85 below the Street's mean price target of $273. Options positioning has…
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals heads into Q3 with a contradictory setup: short sellers are pressing harder into a stock down 16% over the past month, while options traders are positioned for upside at their most aggressive…
OZK heads into its October 22 earnings report carrying one of the heaviest short positions in the regional banking sector, a fresh round of analyst target cuts, and a stock price that has shed 6.5% over the past…
BOK Financial heads into its October 19 earnings date with a fresh analyst downgrade arriving the same week shorts have been quietly rebuilding positions, putting the two most bearish signals in the data on a collision…
Associated Banc-Corp enters Q3 earnings season with short sellers rebuilding positions at pace, a stock that has shed 7% over the past month, and an activist shareholder quietly on the register. The positioning story…
AAPL has given back the gains of the past two weeks, falling 3% to $329.40 and slipping back below the Street's mean price target for the first time since early September. The price retreat has done something worth…
Amkor Technology enters the final stretch before its October 26 earnings with a cluster of signals pulling in different directions: a family-controlled activist register, a string of insider sales by directors, short…
AEE heads into its November earnings with a notably one-sided story in the analyst community: nearly every recent move has been a target cut, even from banks that still like the stock. The wave of downgrades began…
AMZN closes out September at $246.67, down 3.3% on the week, having given back the rebound documented in last week's note, yet heading into October with the lightest short positioning in months and a Street consensus…
ATI heads into its November 4 earnings date with a fresh analyst cut landing the same day shorts are quietly rebuilding, while the stock itself is down 10% over the past month despite a 4.6% bounce on Tuesday. The…
AMD has pulled back from its recent highs, and the options market is registering a subtle but measurable shift back toward caution after last week's burst of bullish repositioning. The stock closed Tuesday at $607.57,…
AZZ enters its October 9 earnings report with a notable split in sentiment: options traders have turned sharply bullish while short sellers have quietly rebuilt positions over the past month. The clearest signal this…
Sarepta Therapeutics enters the final day of September with short sellers rebuilding positions, options turning modestly more defensive, and the stock off 10% on the week to $18.64, all against a backdrop of sharply…
AES has spent September quietly rebuilding, with the stock up 27% over the past month to $14.86 while short sellers have been steadily unwinding positions, a combination that tells a more constructive story than the…
lululemon athletica is now carrying the heaviest short book it has seen in years, while options traders and the lending market are both telling a more nuanced story than the headline figure suggests. The short-selling…
FICO is having one of its worst weeks in memory. The stock closed at $617.87 on Tuesday, down 32% for the week and 46% for the month, a collapse that has forced a rapid rethink from analysts who were still pricing the…
IREN heads into the final days of September with a contradictory setup: short sellers have been reducing positions sharply over the past month, yet the borrow market remains extremely tight and the stock has still shed…
