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Stanley Black & Decker crossed its Q3 earnings line on November 4 with short sellers already beginning to cover, the stock up 5% on the week, and the Street's mean price target sitting below the current price. The…
SO reported Q3 results on November 5 with the stock essentially flat on the week against peers that have moved slightly more, a gap worth examining given the 12% run the stock put in over the prior month. Among its…
Skyworks Solutions weathered the week better than almost any name in its peer group, dropping just 0.1% while the median across its closest semiconductor correlates fell 7.9%. QCOM shed 10.7% over the same period. ON…
SMG reported its latest quarterly results on November 4, the same day this note publishes, and the setup heading into that print was more interesting than the modest share price moves suggest. Short sellers spent…
SCHW enters November with a notable shift in tone: the defensive options positioning that dominated last week's note has unwound, shorts continue their steady exit, and the most newsworthy development is now coming…
SLB fell 3.6% over the past week to $52.13, a comparatively composed retreat against a peer group that was largely in freefall, with NOV down 10%, BKR dropping 10.5%, and XPRO off nearly 24% in the same period. The…
H2O America has seen a dramatic reversal in short positioning since its Q3 results last week, with bears returning at a pace that stands in sharp contrast to the near-total retreat documented in the pre-earnings note…
SBA Communications posted Q3 results on November 2, moving the stock down 1.3% on the day, and the week's data tells a story of analysts trimming targets while the options market holds a defensive tilt that predates…
Quanta Services has added another 13.5% this week to close at $657, extending the rally that began after its October 29 Q3 print and pushing the cumulative two-week gain to roughly 27% from the pre-earnings lows. The…
QUALCOMM fell 10.7% over the past week to $164.43, a steeper drop than the median peer decline of roughly 7.9%, with RGTI off 10.9% and VLN down 12.4% while NXPI managed a 3.7% gain, making QCOM one of the worse…
Prudential Financial now has fewer borrowed shares than at any point in the past six weeks, with short interest down another 0.9% over the past week to 14.2 million shares, equal to 4.1% of free float. The retreat has…
Procter & Gamble has added 1.8% on the week to $162.06, the stock's best weekly gain since the post-earnings bounce, but the debate is now shifting from momentum to margin. Options positioning has quietly turned less…
Booking Holdings has just reported Q3 earnings, and the immediate read from the Street is a uniform round of target-price reductions, though no one is walking away from the stock. The analyst response this morning was…
Avient Corporation reports Q3 results on November 5, trading into the print with short interest at a one-month high and retail attention ticking up, against a backdrop where most specialty chemicals peers finished the…
BCO heads into the week after its Q3 earnings release with two distinct stories pulling in opposite directions: options traders are as bearish as they have been all year, while the acquisition of NCR Atleos is quietly…
ConocoPhillips reported Q3 results on November 5 after a week in which the stock fell 2.4% to $144.40, a relatively contained decline against a peer group that dropped a median of 4.7% over the same period. The company…
Pfizer has just reported Q3 results, and the market's immediate reaction is quietly telling: the stock slipped 2.2% on Tuesday to $30.00, paring a week that still closes up 0.7%, while short interest has nudged back…
RVTY jumped 7.8% on November 3 to close at $163.48, the same day its put/call ratio hit its most defensive reading in months, and analysts rushed to lift targets the morning after. The speed of the analyst response is…
PepsiCo enters November with an unusual insider tension: a board director spent over $17 million buying shares in mid-October while the CEO sold $4 million on the open market one week later. The insider story is the…
ORCL gained 6% on Tuesday to close at $126.19, a partial recovery from Monday's sharp fall after the company announced a $20 billion capital raise. The stock is still down 3.3% on the week, 11% over the past month, and…
