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Coinbase dropped another 4% on Monday to $137.83, taking its one-month loss to 25%. The put/call ratio jumped to 0.87 on November 2, 3.6 standard deviations above its 20-day mean, the highest reading in at least a…
The put-call ratio on NVS hit 2.69 on November 2, the highest reading in 52 weeks and 3.3 standard deviations above the 20-day mean of 2.06. That is a meaningful jump from a PCR that had sat between 1.79 and 2.32 for…
Intel has lost 33.7% in a week and nearly half its value over the past month, following a Q4 earnings release that triggered the largest single-session collapse in its recent history. The question now is who is…
Broadstone Net Lease, a diversified REIT with 61% of rents from industrial tenants, reported Q3 results on October 29 and emerged with its bearish positioning intact. Shares closed at $17.10, down 1.5% over the past…
Cavco Industries surged 15.9% over the past week, the biggest move in its peer group by a wide margin. Bears built their position anyway. Short interest in CVCO rose 18.5% over the week to 5.0% of free float. That is a…
Constellium SE makes aluminum products for aerospace, automotive and packaging markets. The stock closed at $23.11 on October 30, down 3.8% on the day and roughly flat on the week, while its closest peers gained a…
MBLY makes driver-assistance chips and autonomous-driving systems. It just delivered a quarterly miss that sent analysts running for the exits. Short interest now stands at 23.5% of the free float, up 13.6% in a single…
Xylem, the water technology company behind treatment, pumping, and measurement systems for utilities worldwide, has shed 18% this month after a sharp earnings miss on October 27. The data from the past week tells a…
First Industrial Realty Trust carries more short interest than most of its closest industrial REIT peers right now. Short interest stands at 4.2% of free float, the highest level since late September, after climbing…
Why this matters: Evercore ISI upgraded CLX to In-Line this morning, breaking a run of downgrades from rival banks that had pushed the stock's short interest to its October highs. The upgrade lands the same day that…
Standard Nuclear, Inc. trades at $11.97, down 6.9% on the week, with shares sliding into a November 12 earnings date. The lending market for its stock has effectively closed: availability has fallen to 1.33%, meaning…
Freedom Capital Markets lifted FormFactor to Buy from Hold on Monday, setting a $140 price target. That implies 60% upside from the $87.53 close on October 30, a striking call given the stock has fallen 36% over the…
Deutsche Bank cut NVS to Sell from Hold on October 30, the first outright bearish rating from a major bank since Goldman Sachs downgraded to Sell in September 2025. The stock gained 3.2% that day anyway. It has risen…
Bausch + Lomb jumped 14.5% last week after a 15.8% post-earnings pop on 28 October. HC Wainwright responded on 2 November by cutting the stock to Neutral from Buy, raising its target to $22 from $21 while the shares…
Sprouts Farmers Market reported Q3 earnings on October 29. The stock fell 25% the following day. Short interest sits at 12.6% of the free float, still up 1.8% over the past month despite a 6.7% single-day pullback in…
Why this matters: Coinbase has absorbed a wave of post-earnings target cuts without a single downgrade, until now. Morgan Stanley's move today breaks that pattern and arrives as the stock trades 25% below where most…
A convergence of three distinct signals is building around WCN (Waste Connections). Short positions hit a one-year high just days after the company posted a record buyback quarter. Retail attention has spiked to 3.76…
Eight analyst firms cut their price targets on ALNY on October 30 alone. Two downgraded. The stock fell 29% on earnings day and is now down 35% over the past month, trading at $165. Raymond James dropped its rating…
Why this matters: Toyota Motor enters its post-earnings period with two converging signals pointing the same direction. The borrow market has never been tighter this year. At the same time, ORTEX Alt Data shows Indian…
Short sellers added positions in WCN at an unusual pace following Q3 earnings. Shares short rose 27% in a single week to 5.2 million, pushing short interest to 2.04% of free float, the highest reading in over a year.…
