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A Jefferies downgrade and a fresh Goldman initiation at Neutral landed within four days of each other, pushing ZTS consensus squarely to Hold. The stock trades at $82, already below Jefferies' new $83 price target and…
McKesson shares are up 14.2% over the past month, trading at $1,012. Retail attention has jumped to 2.95 standard deviations above its 90-day average, per Wikipedia views and ORTEX stock page data. That spike in…
W. R. Berkley Corporation reports its October quarter this afternoon. The pre-earnings positioning story has been well-documented in recent notes. What's new today is a 63% weekly rise in cost to borrow, from around…
B of A Securities upgraded PHVS to Buy this morning, with analyst Tazeen Ahmad citing deucrictibant's Phase 3 data as reinforcing the drug's HAE prophylaxis potential. The $44 price target was maintained. The stock…
Trulieve Cannabis Corp. has had a volatile few weeks. Short interest hit 3.85% of the free float on October 21, the highest level in at least a year, while retail attention jumped 3.67 standard deviations above its own…
Piper Sandler's Anna Andreeva cut Deckers Outdoor to Underweight this morning, setting a $75 target. That is 25% below where the stock closed Thursday and 29% below the consensus mean of $106. The call lands one day…
RingCentral is up 15% in premarket trade this Friday. The software stock has now gained 185% year-to-date. ORTEX data puts its short score at 47, meaning a meaningful bearish base remains exposed to further squeezes.…
Options sentiment turned sharply positive in tech this week. Centene topped ORTEX's seven-day options score table, but the most telling flows sit elsewhere. RingCentral jumped 15% in premarket trade on Friday. The…
Today American Express reports before US markets open. The $220bn card giant is the first major S&P 500 financials name to print this week. Oilfield services group SLB also posts today. Europe is equally busy. Safran,…
Taiwan's export order machine hit a level not seen since records began in 1984. Total orders reached $114.2bn in September, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs, surpassing the previous September record…
Analyst target prices moved sharply higher for a cluster of industrial and transport names on Friday, with rails, defence and equipment rental all seeing consensus upgrades. LMT received the biggest consensus bump of…
ORTEX insider momentum data flags a wave of selling across large-cap US stocks over the past three months. AppLovin, Meta Platforms, Dell Technologies, The Charles Schwab Corporation, Datadog, and Quanta Services all…
Chewy remains the most shorted large-cap name in US markets. Short interest sits at 88.6% of free float. That figure did ease slightly this week, down from 92.2% seven days ago, a modest retreat that still leaves…
China topped the geography leaderboard this week. ETFs focused on the country took in $12.0B net, with a flow imbalance of 76, well into buying-pressure territory. That makes it the single biggest regional winner over…
Global Payments faces its October 30 earnings print with three Wall Street upgrades in four weeks and a sharp jump in put demand on the same day. The payments processor closed at $85.88 on Thursday, about 18% below the…
American Airlines carries the heaviest short position among US passenger airline peers. Its short interest of 14.7% of free float is well above United Airlines and Delta, which hold broadly constructive analyst…
European earnings dominate the morning. Safran, the French aerospace group valued at $141bn, reports today alongside Air Liquide, Vinci and Dassault Aviation. Swiss dermatologist Galderma also posts results. The…
Earnings season and a looming index shake-up are pushing options activity into names that rarely top the flow tables. KVUE faces the sharpest structural pressure. ORTEX Index Rebalance Radar puts a 93% probability on…
Today brings a busy slate of confirmed earnings. Safran, the French aerospace group with a $141bn market cap, reports this morning alongside fellow Paris-listed names Air Liquide, Vinci and Dassault Aviation. Swiss…
Ramelius Resources reports on 25 October with its stock down 7% over the past month to A$3.53, and short sellers have been notably more active than usual in the weeks running up to the announcement. Short interest has…
