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JP Morgan dominated Friday's ratings sweep with moves across several sectors. The bank cut its target on BE Bloom Energy from $314 to $292, while keeping a Buy. That is a notable step back for a clean energy name that…
Uber President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed disclosures on 8 September showing he spent over $5.3M buying shares in two tranches on 4 September. The larger purchase totalled $4.1M for 54,325 shares. The…
Short sellers sharpened their bets across several high-profile names this week. CoreWeave saw the biggest move among large-caps. Its short interest rose 3.6 percentage points in seven days to 24.8% of free float. Bears…
China and Taiwan pulled in a combined $18.3B this week. That is the clearest signal in the ETF flow data: institutional money is rotating hard into Asian markets, with a record-breaking backdrop lending weight to the…
Options traders are piling bearish bets on chip stocks ahead of a packed earnings week. Micron, Broadcom, Intel, and Applied Materials all rank among the top targets for negative options flow this week. All four carry…
Options sentiment split sharply this week. Bullish sweeps are clustering in industrials while negative bets are piling up in semiconductors ahead of a heavy earnings schedule. Union Pacific leads the bullish side. The…
American Express kicks off today, reporting Q3 earnings this morning. SLB also posts today, with investors watching oil services demand closely. Monday brings Verizon. Tuesday is the heaviest day of the week.…
JP Morgan had a busy morning. The bank cut targets on four names in quick succession, with Bloom Energy taking the sharpest hit. JP Morgan analyst Mark Strouse trimmed his Bloom Energy target to $292 from $314, a drop…
NVIDIA director Mark A. Stevens filed to disclose a string of open-market sales totalling over $366 million, with trades executed between 31 August and 2 September 2026. Stevens sold batches of 300,000 shares at prices…
Short sellers added to positions in CoreWeave this week. Its short interest as a percentage of free float climbed to 24.8%, up from 21.2% seven days ago. That 3.6 percentage point jump is one of the biggest moves among…
Scotiabank upgraded AST SpaceMobile today, lifting its rating to Sector Outperform and raising its target to $55.70 from $50.80. The call implies 44% upside from Wednesday's close of $38.77. It arrives after four weeks…
Sportradar carries a heavier short load than most of its closest peers right now. Short interest has climbed 27.5% over the past month to roughly 17.1 million shares. The borrow market has tightened sharply with…
St. James's Place reports on 29 October with the stock trading at a meaningful discount to where analysts think it should be, and earnings-day history that is reliably uncomfortable. The most striking tension in the…
ROOT enters its November 4 earnings window in an unusual configuration: short interest remains elevated at 15.5% of free float, yet options positioning has turned the most bullish it has been in months, and the stock…
Lancashire Holdings heads into its November 6 Q3 results as a notable laggard in a specialty insurance peer group that has re-rated sharply higher this week. The peer divergence is the sharpest tension in the setup…
News Corporation heads into its November 4 earnings release with a new analyst initiating coverage, short sellers retreating and the stock at its highest level in months, a reasonably clean setup for a media name that…
Centerra Gold heads into its October 29 earnings release with the stock down 11% over the past month and the borrow market too relaxed to signal any conviction from the short side. The sharpest story this week is the…
Saputo heads into its November 5 earnings release with short sellers quietly rebuilding positions and the stock trading near a one-month high. The most interesting tension this week is the gap between what short…
Global Ship Lease heads into its November 10 results with a striking pattern of insider selling, even as analysts lift their targets and the stock holds near multi-year highs. The insider story is the most telling…
Retail attention for FDX spiked 2.5 standard deviations above its 90-day average on October 23, per Wikipedia views and ORTEX stock page traffic. Short positioning has risen 7.5% over the past month to 2.21% of free…
