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WSO.B last traded at $287.50, down 8% on both the week and the month, carrying that loss into a Tuesday earnings report that arrives just six days after the one the data originally targeted. Short interest has climbed…
Waste Management sits at the lighter end of bearish positioning within its peer group, even as its own short interest has hit a new high for the year. Among WM's closest correlated names, WCN and CWST both carried…
Analyst target cuts have been the defining pre-earnings signal for WPC, with two firms lowering their price objectives in the final week before the October 27 release. Barclays cut its target to $76 from $80 while…
VTR reports Q3 results on October 27 with short sellers retreating sharply even as analysts pull back their price targets. Short interest has fallen 40% over the past month, from roughly 23 million shares in late…
Universal Health Services heads into its October 27 Q3 results with options positioning remaining firmly bullish, largely unchanged from the stance that defined the lead-up to last week's October 23 report, which now…
UPS reports third-quarter results on Tuesday against a backdrop that is more interesting for what has shifted in the past week than for what remains unchanged. The stock gained 3.7% over the past week to $101.06,…
Tenet Healthcare Corporation, a major US hospital and ambulatory surgery operator, reports third-quarter results on Monday after the close, with shares at $268.45 after a modest 0.4% gain on the week. The clearest…
The most striking open-market purchase in recent filings came from Servyou Software Group CEO Zhang Zhen Chao, who filed a $108m buy in the Chinese enterprise software firm on 2 September. That is a concentrated…
SYY fell 3.1% on Friday to close at $81.37, a sharp one-day drop that puts it 1.0% lower on the week. That divergence from its closest peers is stark: USFD gained 2.5% over the same period, PFGC added 0.6%, and KR…
EQNR has climbed 17% over the past month to $48.82, a sharp rally that has pushed the stock well above the Street's consensus price target of $39.29, a gap that frames Wednesday's Q3 release as a direct test of whether…
Sherwin-Williams reports Q3 results on October 27 from a position of relative underperformance, down 2.5% on Friday to $337.06 while close peers ECL, RPM, and PPG each gained between 1.5% and 2.7% on the same…
CenterPoint Energy short sellers have added about 5.6 million shares over the past month, pushing the short position to 49.0 million shares, or 7.5% of the free float. That is the highest level in more than a year. The…
Short sellers pulled back slightly from Range Resources in the days leading into its October 27 print, but the position remains substantial. Short interest eased 3.3% over the past week to 10.5% of the free float, with…
PFE gained 1.5% over the past week, trailing the median 2.2% advance across its closest pharmaceutical peers. BMY added 2.9% on the week, NOVN climbed 2.6%, and RPRX led the group with a 4.8% gain. Only PRGO, off 4.0%,…
Among the closest specialty chemicals peers, PPG carries one of the lighter short footprints into Tuesday's earnings. Its short interest of 2.9% of free float compares with more crowded names elsewhere in the group,…
ONEOK is the least crowded short in its midstream peer group heading into Tuesday's Q3 print, with short interest at 3.56% of free float against a sector where names like TRGP and WMB carry notably higher bearish…
The most striking data point around NVS's October 27 results is not its short book, which is modest, but the put/call ratio, which has jumped to its highest level in nearly a year. Options positioning has turned…
Nomura Holdings reports second-quarter results on October 27, with options traders growing more defensive just as the stock slides toward a monthly low. The shift in options positioning is the clearest signal ahead of…
S&P Global reports third-quarter results on October 27, having gained nearly 12% over the past month yet still trailing most of its closest competitors on the week. The stock closed at $450.31 on Friday, up 4.8% over…
Masco Corporation reports third-quarter results on October 27, and options traders are leaning notably more optimistic than usual into the release. The shift in options positioning is the clearest pre-earnings signal…
