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Analyst target price moves on Friday point to growing confidence in energy midstream names and a rougher road ahead for consumer-facing stocks. TRGP — Targa Resources — leads the upgrades with its consensus target…
Filings disclosed this week reveal a wave of significant insider selling across US equities, with one standout buyer bucking the trend. Dell leads the selling parade. Silver Lake Group, a board-level 10% owner of DELL,…
Short sellers have been busy this week. CHRN (ChronoScale Holdings) tops the movers list with SI % of FF jumping 12 points to 45.8% in just seven days. Borrow costs sit at 61.9% APR and availability has collapsed to…
Q2 earnings season arrives with short sellers pressing hard on AI and consumer names. Insider exits are adding to the cautious tone. European automakers face fresh headwinds from China. Short sellers are not waiting…
Bears are building positions into earnings season. Short interest and bearish options sentiment are rising fast on several high-profile names. CoreWeave is drawing intense scrutiny. Short interest hit 33.1% of free…
Analyst activity on Friday was dominated by upgrades in specialty chemicals and semiconductors. IFF — International Flavors & Fragrances — received a consensus upgrade. The average target price now stands at $91.21.…
RH CEO Gary Friedman filed $20.7M in stock sales this week. The trades occurred on July 6–8 and cover 125,000 shares at roughly $169–170. That's a notable exit for a luxury furniture retailer still navigating a…
Q2 earnings season is now underway. Markets are focused on what big banks and a handful of high-profile names will report in the days ahead. BAC kicks things off Monday, July 14. BNY follows Tuesday. Wednesday is the…
Short interest signals and news flow are pointing to elevated hedging pressure on several names as earnings season kicks off this week. CoreWeave sits at the sharpest edge. Short interest stands at 33.1% of free float…
Q2 earnings season kicks into high gear this week. Major financials and a streaming giant are all set to report. BAC kicks things off Monday, July 14. Bank of America reports Q2 results before the open. AEHR also…
Analyst activity on Friday points to a broad upgrade for IFF. The consensus rating on International Flavors & Fragrances moved up. The average target price stands at $91.21. The $20 billion specialty chemicals company…
Executives and major shareholders filed a flurry of notable trades this week, spanning luxury retail, energy, and tech. RH CEO Sells $11.7M. RH Chairman and CEO Gary Friedman filed two sales totalling $11.7M on July 8.…
Short sellers are busy this earnings season. Wolfspeed now sits at an extraordinary 103% SI % FF — shorts exceed the entire free float. That's up from 98.6% a week ago. Availability has hit zero. Borrowing costs stand…
The week's biggest story is already building. Q2 earnings season kicks off in earnest, with major banks up first. Bank of America and BNY Mellon report Monday and Tuesday respectively. UnitedHealth Group steps up…
Q2 earnings season hits full stride this week. Banks dominate Monday and Tuesday before the spotlight swings to streaming on Thursday. Bank of America kicks off Monday, July 14, releasing Q2 2026 results pre-market.…
Analysts upgraded IFF to a consensus buy on Friday. International Flavors & Fragrances now has 15 buy ratings. The consensus target price stands at $91.21. Short interest runs at 7.2% of free float — modest, suggesting…
Fresh filings show a split picture on Wall Street. On one side, a 10% shareholder at AVO spent over $24M buying Mission Produce shares across three days this week. The purchases — filed July 8 and 9 — came in at prices…
Short sellers are piling into CoreWeave fast. The AI cloud stock's short interest hit 33.1% of free float on July 9. That's up from 28.3% just one week earlier — a 4.76 percentage point jump in seven days. Wolfspeed…
Q2 earnings season accelerates this week with a heavy slate of financial names. BAC, JNJ, and BNY report Tuesday. WFC enters its print with peers already rising and options volatility near multi-month lows — a calm…
Monday kicks off a heavy week for Q2 results. BAC reports Tuesday morning. JNJ and BNY also drop numbers on Tuesday. Wednesday brings one of the week's biggest moments. NFLX releases Q2 results after the close.…
