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Becton, Dickinson and Company reports fiscal fourth-quarter results on November 5, and the most striking feature of the current setup is not what bears are doing but what they have stopped doing. Short interest has…
Arrow Electronics reports Q3 results on November 5 with options traders more cautious than they have been for most of this year. The clearest signal heading into the print is in the options market. The put/call ratio…
AEE short interest has risen 20% over the past month to 5.8% of the free float, the highest level in at least a year, setting an unusual tone ahead of Q3 results due November 5. The climb in short positions is the most…
Voyager Technologies reports after the close on Monday with short sellers holding their largest position since the stock listed, even as the shares recovered most of a bruising October decline. Short interest tells the…
United Therapeutics enters its November 4 earnings report with short sellers still exiting, options tilted toward calls, and a stock up 24% over the past month. The short-covering story that drove last week's 6.7%…
VYLR has slipped harder than its closest peers over the past week, falling 2.9% against a median decline of roughly 1.8% for the most correlated names in the group. The stock closed at $72.40 on October 30, extending a…
VMRK enters Tuesday's earnings release with short positioning that has been building steadily over the past month, though it remains loosely held relative to the lending market's capacity. Among its closest residential…
Q gained 6.2% over the past week while its closest semiconductor peers sold off broadly. ENTG rose 14.8%, but ACLS fell 6.1%, VECO dropped 7.6%, LSCC lost 3.3%, and AMD shed 2.3%. The median one-week move across Q's…
Short interest in SKYD has climbed to its highest level in at least a year, with 144.6 million shares now sold short, up 76% from a month ago. Yet the stock has outperformed its closest correlated peers by a wide…
FIG dropped 12.1% in the past week to $21.65, nearly double the median decline of 5.1% across its closest software peers. ADBE fell 5.2% over the same period, FRSH 5.0%, and MNDY 10.3%, but HUBS matched Figma's pain at…
CRCL, the stablecoin infrastructure company behind USDC, has lost 16% over the past week, closing at $72.54 on October 30 after a 9% single-day drop. That move is roughly twice the pace of decline seen across its…
Short interest in BEPC has climbed to 10.3% of the free float, the highest reading in at least a year, rising 23% over the past month and 5.4% in the last week alone. The borrow market tells a more measured story than…
TKO Group Holdings, the parent of UFC and WWE, reports third-quarter results on November 4. Short sellers have been adding positions steadily through October, and insider selling has accompanied the move, making for an…
SharkNinja reports Q3 results on November 4, with the stock up 14% over the past month and analysts lifting price targets at an unusually concentrated pace in the final days before the release. The analyst activity is…
IonQ short sellers built their position fast over the past month and have not retreated. Short interest now covers 13.2% of the free float, up 14% over the past month and 11% over the past week, with roughly 46.6…
Texas Pacific Land Corporation reports Q3 results on November 4, having shed nearly 2% over the past week while its closest correlated peers gained a median 0.6%, an unusual lag for a stock that had been running ahead…
Western Midstream Partners (WES), the gathering and processing partnership majority-owned by Occidental Petroleum, reports its third-quarter results on November 4. Short positions have climbed sharply in the past week,…
Permian Resources Corporation reports Q3 results on November 4 against a backdrop of rising analyst conviction, a stock up 23% over the past month, and a short position that has nearly doubled since early October. The…
Performance Food Group, a $15.6 billion foodservice distributor, reports fiscal first-quarter results on November 4 with its shares up sharply but options markets tilting toward caution. The most striking signal going…
KHC carries the heaviest short positioning among its closest packaged-food peers heading into Tuesday's results, with 8.2% of free float borrowed, a level that has not been seen in at least a year. Closest peer CAG saw…
