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Spyre Therapeutics reports Thursday with a clinical-stage IBD pipeline, a substantial short position that has barely moved all month, and a named activist holding nearly 10% of the company. Short sellers have committed…
Shopify fell 8.7% on November 3 after reporting Q3 results, extending its weekly loss to 14%. The stock now trades at $142.57, well below the analyst consensus target of $176.74. The question this week is whether that…
ETSY added 2.5% over the past week, outperforming a peer group that barely moved, with the median closest-correlated name flat at minus 0.3%. The company's own short interest, at 12.6% of the free float, remains one of…
SolarEdge Technologies enters its November 4 earnings release with one of the more conflicted setups in the solar space. Short sellers have been slowly retreating, the stock jumped 9% on the day, yet options traders…
Spectrum Brands heads into its November 12 earnings release with short sellers adding to positions at a steady clip, even as the stock has climbed 5.4% over the past week and 8.5% over the past month. Short interest…
Supernus Pharmaceuticals has collapsed 22% in a single session, leaving the stock down 19% on the week and 21% over the past month, the kind of move that reorders every positioning story in the register. The price…
Short sellers have built their largest position in Sunrun in at least a year, even as the stock posted one of its best weeks in recent memory. Short interest reached 31.2% of free float on November 3, up from roughly…
Freshpet reported Q3 results on November 4 with the stock up 8% on the week, yet short sellers remain dug in at levels that keep the fundamental debate firmly unresolved. The clearest tension in the data is between…
UBS Group AG delivered a blowout third quarter last week, yet the stock at CHF 39.47 remains well below the prices at which its own executives were selling shares just weeks earlier. The Q3 print on October 28 produced…
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals dropped 7.5% on November 3 and is down 6.2% on the week, the sharpest move in months, yet options positioning tells a strikingly different story from the price action. The options signal is the…
Wayfair reported earnings on November 4 with the put/call ratio touching its highest level of the past year, even as short sellers who spent October building positions quietly started to ease off. Options positioning…
Limbach Holdings heads into its Q3 earnings release with a 6% single-day pop, options positioning that just flipped notably less defensive, and a short score sitting well above 60. The clearest shift this week is in…
XPLR Infrastructure, LP has just delivered one of its sharpest single-week moves in recent memory, falling 15.5% to $8.15 after reporting Q3 results on November 3, confirming the bearish setup that shorts had been…
Syndax Pharmaceuticals stock jumped 9% on November 3 after reporting results that beat estimates, yet the stock remains down 19% over the past month, leaving it trading at a steep discount to analyst targets while…
Arista Networks reported Q3 results on November 3, the stock dropped sharply into the print and has since clawed back some ground, but the analyst community that emerged from the other side is not reading from the same…
Sixth Street Specialty Lending reported Q3 results on November 4 with the stock up 4% on the week at $17.90, but the lending market remains notably tighter than conditions that prevailed before the summer reset. The…
RARE heads into the post-earnings stretch carrying one of the highest short positions in its peer group, a wrecked pipeline narrative, and an analyst community that cannot agree on how low is low enough. Short interest…
OGS has cleared its Q3 earnings hurdle and the market's verdict has been positive, with the stock up 3.3% on the week to $81.03 and the defensive hedging that dominated pre-print positioning now looking like it has…
Short sellers have continued adding to an already heavy position in PRGO, with short interest climbing nearly 1% over the past week to reach 17.8% of the free float, the latest reading in a steady build that has added…
American Airlines enters November in an uncomfortable position: short interest remains heavy at 15% of the free float, the analyst community has spent the past month cutting targets, and the stock at $12.82 is running…
