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GE Vernova reports third-quarter results on October 28, arriving at the print with its shares under real pressure but its short-selling community moving in the opposite direction to what the price action might…
HF Sinclair reports third-quarter results on October 28 against a backdrop of sharply rising analyst price targets, a thinning activist position, and a stock that has held up better than most refining peers despite a…
Short sellers have been quietly building their position in OTIS over the past month, with borrowed shares rising nearly 10% to reach 4.4% of the free float, the highest level in at least a year. That climb accelerated…
Vertiv Holdings reports again on October 28, just seven days after a print that sent the stock down roughly 4% on the day and 14% on the week, and the positioning data looks materially calmer than it did going into…
AVTR gained 5.3% in the past week, ahead of a peer group median of 3.9%. Among its closest correlated names, QGEN led with a 9.2% weekly gain while TMO slipped 2.3%, making Avantor's performance broadly mid-pack rather…
VICI Properties reports Q3 results on October 28 with the shares down roughly 1% on the month at $23.76, while the Street has spent the past month trimming targets at a steady pace. Options positioning captures the…
CVNA carries 47.4% of its free float sold short, making it one of the most heavily bet-against names in the US market heading into Wednesday's print. Short interest has climbed 4.3% over the past month to roughly 67…
Invitation Homes has accumulated roughly 18 million shares sold short over the past month, a 33.5% jump that has pushed short interest to 2.9% of free float. The build has been steady: positions were closer to 13.5…
Short sellers have been rebuilding their position in FTV at an unusual pace. Short interest has climbed to 5.3% of the free float, up from roughly 3.1% a month ago, a near-doubling in four weeks. That brings the share…
Smurfit Westrock carries a lighter short position than most of its packaging peers ahead of Tuesday's Q3 results, with short interest at 5.0% of free float. Closest peer International Paper has drawn heavier bearish…
Short interest in KHC has climbed to its highest level in at least a year, reaching 8% of free float with roughly 94.6 million shares borrowed, up 3% over the past month and a further 2% in the past week alone. Despite…
GKOS is more crowded on the short side than most of its ophthalmology peers heading into Tuesday's Q3 results, with short interest at 7.9% of free float. That compares to a lighter picture for close peers: BVS gained…
Among the closest natural gas peers, AR carries one of the lighter short positions heading into Tuesday's results. Short interest in RRC and EQT runs higher on a free float basis; AR's 4.3% of float is toward the…
ServiceNow is not the most shorted name in its software peer group heading into Wednesday's print, but it is the one where the short rebuild has been most persistent: SI has climbed to 15.2% of the free float, up from…
Phillips 66 reports on October 28, carrying a 125% year-to-date gain into earnings and a fresh wave of upward analyst revisions that have outpaced even the stock's own rise. The analyst story is the most active data…
KB Financial Group stands out among Korean bank ADRs heading into its October 29 print as one of the least shorted names in the peer group, with short interest at roughly 426,000 shares and borrow conditions so loose…
GNRC reports Q3 results on October 28 with the options market flashing an unusually bullish lean, even as analysts have been cutting price targets and the stock has retreated 9% over the past month to $186.92. The…
A broad pattern of target price cuts dominated analyst activity this week. Defensive and industrial names bore the brunt. McCormick drew the most attention. The consensus target fell to $54.46 from $54.85. The spice…
Borrowing costs for BSBR tripled almost overnight. The cost to borrow shot to 12.91% on October 22, up from 2.15% the day before, a move of 500% in a single session and the sharpest spike since a brief 13.97% reading…
Short interest in AWK has climbed to its highest level in at least a year, with 7.3% of the free float now sold short. That reading has risen 10% over the past month, reaching 14.2 million shares as of October 22. The…
