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Zebra Technologies reported earnings on November 3 and the market's verdict was swift: the stock fell 8.8% on the day and is now down 13.7% over the past week to $329.50, underperforming the median move of minus 7.5%…
Yum! Brands has just reported Q3 results, the stock gained 5% on the week to $157.01, but the question now is whether shorts who built their largest position in a year will begin to exit or stay the course. Short…
WAT reported its Q3 earnings on November 3 and walked straight into a round of analyst upgrades, giving the post-earnings note a different flavour from the cautious preview filed days earlier. The most decisive…
WMT added 4.6% over the past week, closing Tuesday at $124.86, a move that left its closest retail peers well behind, with the peer median down 0.3% across the same period. COST gained 2.7% and BJ added 4.1%, both…
Vishay Intertechnology heads into the post-earnings period carrying a punishing one-month loss, nearly 14 points of float in short interest, and options positioning at its most defensive in months. The stock closed at…
VZ has spent the past fortnight doing something unusual for a mega-cap telecom: its short sellers have been retreating at the same time as its analysts have been cutting targets, leaving the stock in a quietly…
Unum Group has cleared its Q3 earnings hurdle, and the shorts who spent October building positions are now quietly pulling back. Short interest dropped to just over 5 million shares, 3.0% of the free float, as of…
UnitedHealth Group is in a holding pattern this week, with short interest frozen at 14.0 million shares for the second consecutive week and the stock trading at a widening discount to where analysts think it should…
United Therapeutics reported Q3 results on November 4 with the stock up just 1.7% over the past week, a touch behind the median 2.6% gain for its closest correlated peers. Among that peer group, MNKD added 13.4% and…
RTX Corporation has added another leg to its post-earnings recovery, with the stock up nearly 5% on the week to $203.82 and now 10% higher than a month ago, closing the gap toward a Street consensus that has itself…
United Fire Group has just reported its Q3 results, and the debate now shifts from what the numbers might show to what they actually mean for the durability of the underwriting recovery. The lending market remains a…
Union Pacific heads into early November with options traders at their most defensive all year, even as the stock quietly outperforms a retreating rail peer group. The clearest signal this week is in options. The…
UFP Technologies has now reported Q3 results, and the stock's first reaction is a modest further decline, leaving the question of whether the bear thesis that accumulated through the summer still has legs. The stock…
Coherent Corp. makes the optical components that move data inside hyperscale data centres, and this week those shares fell 12% to $207.49, the worst weekly performance among its closest peers and roughly 38% below…
TRMB has had a strong month, climbing 14% to $65.61, and options traders are now positioned for further gains rather than bracing for a pullback. The options market tells the clearest story this week. Call demand has…
TREX enters the week after reporting Q3 earnings with a quietly interesting setup: short sellers have been retreating steadily even as the stock finally found analyst conviction, yet retail attention is running at its…
TRNS heads into the week after a fresh earnings print with a quietly interesting tension: short sellers have been covering steadily for six weeks while options traders have just turned notably more cautious. The…
TKR heads into the post-earnings week with one of the most striking options setups in the industrial machinery space: call buyers have overwhelmed put buyers to a degree not seen in a year, even as the stock trades…
Sterling Infrastructure bounced 7.7% on Monday but still ended the week down 1.7%, a stark contrast with most of its closest peers, which gained between 7% and 14%. The gap is worth unpacking. ECG rose 10.8% over the…
STT fell 0.7% over the past week, while the median of its closest custody and asset-management peers gained around 0.4%. BNY added 1.2% and NTRS rose 1.3%, leaving State Street the clearest underperformer in the…
