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BMNR Shorts Retreat as Stock Climbs 26% in a Month

BMNR has spent the past month quietly squeezing its short sellers, with shares up 26% while the short position has shrunk by a sixth — a combination that sets up an interesting tension heading into the week. The…

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Visa Holds Its Post-Earnings Gains as BioCatch Digest Continues

Visa enters the second week of August with the post-earnings rally intact, the BioCatch acquisition absorbed without drama, and the stock now trading at $369.59 — a further leg up from the $366.13 level cited in…

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GPK Bounces After Q2 Results, but Bears Aren't Folding

Graphic Packaging heads into the back half of 2026 with its first meaningful price recovery in months — yet short sellers are adding positions and the Street remains cautious, setting up a genuine tug-of-war between…

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EchoStar Bounces, But the Bear Position Has Barely Moved

EchoStar closed Tuesday up 7% on the day and 6.6% on the week — a striking rebound for a stock whose satellite broadband subsidiary filed Chapter 11 just two days earlier. The resilience of the short position is the…

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MGK Catches a Bid as Options Traders Turn Decisively Bullish

MGK posted its strongest weekly performance in months, climbing 7.1% to $90.42 — but the more interesting story is how investor positioning has shifted beneath the surface. Options traders have rarely been this…

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APPS: Earnings Are In — Now Comes the Hard Part

Digital Turbine has just crossed its most important near-term test — the August 5 earnings release — and the question shifts immediately from whether the recovery story holds to what the numbers actually say about…

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KBW lifts HTH target as shorts quietly rebuild

Hilltop Holdings heads into August with an interesting split: a fresh analyst upgrade nudging the stock toward fair value, while short sellers have been slowly but steadily rebuilding positions over the past month. The…

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QQQ Short Sellers Caught in a 7% Weekly Surge

QQQ enters the week having just delivered its strongest seven-day rally in months — and the positioning data suggests a meaningful cohort of shorts was caught on the wrong side of it. The short interest story here is…

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KTOS Pops on Earnings Day as Analysts Lift Targets

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions delivered its August 5 earnings print into a market that had already started moving in its favour — the stock up 5.4% on the day and 6.6% on the week to $51.87, with two fresh…

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Teradata Surges 18% on Earnings Beat — But Shorts Hold Firm

TDC delivered one of its sharpest weekly moves in years, jumping 18% to $34.39 after reporting Q2 results on August 4 — yet with short interest still running at nearly 17% of the free float, the two sides of this trade…

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PODD Q2 Results Are In — What the Data Said Going In

Insulet Corporation reported Q2 results after the close on August 6, and the pre-print setup told a coherent story: bulls held the floor in options, shorts were retreating, and the Street kept its ratings despite…

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SMCI shorts ease as earnings loom and peers rally hard

SMCI enters its August 11 earnings window riding an 11% weekly gain — yet carrying 15.6% of its float sold short, a borrow pool that just tightened sharply, and an analyst consensus still anchored at Hold. The week's…

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PFF Borrow Costs Spike as Shorts Quietly Rebuild

PFF — the iShares Preferred and Income Securities ETF — enters August with a curious internal tension: the stock has drifted gently higher while its borrow market has quietly tightened and short interest has rebounded…

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Broadridge Earnings Arrive With Analysts Lifting Targets

BR heads into its fiscal Q4 print — scheduled for August 6 — with an analyst upgrade, a $1.5 billion buyback authorization, and a 7% single-day gain all landing within 24 hours of each other. The most concrete new…

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LMAT Options Signal Turns Sharply Bullish After Earnings

LeMaitre Vascular enters the post-earnings stretch with one of the more dramatic single-session shifts in options sentiment seen all year — the stock's put/call ratio collapsed from above 6 to 1.84 on August 4, the day…

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LDOS Surges 10% Post-Earnings as Analysts Lift Targets

Leidos Holdings delivered a sharp post-earnings relief rally on August 4, jumping 10% in a single session to $130.60 — a stark reversal from the bearish setup that had been building through the final weeks of July. The…

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OC Bulls Rewarded as Earnings Arrive

Owens Corning reported its Q2 results on August 5 with the bullish options setup from last week's preview now meeting the reality of the print. The options picture has grown even more one-sided since the pre-earnings…

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Mastercard Bears Hold On as CEO Sells Into Strength

Mastercard enters the week after its Q2 earnings in an unusual position: the Street has never been more uniformly bullish, options remain call-heavy, and yet the pre-earnings short sellers still haven't covered — and…

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