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Solaris Energy Infrastructure enters earnings week with short sellers sitting on one of the most heavily shorted positions in the energy services sector. Short interest in the stock is running at 33.9% of the free…
SVRA enters its most consequential stretch of the year with short sellers pulling back modestly, retail attention spiking, and options traders turning more defensive than at any point since late September. Short…
Park Hotels & Resorts outperformed its lodging REIT peer group this week, rising 6.3% to $16.57 while close peers Apple Hospitality and Sunstone Hotel Investors gained 7.7% and 6.4% respectively. The group moved…
Vistra Corp. fell 7.4% over the past week to close at $150.32, a sharper move than its closest peer TLN, which lost 8.6%, while the broader group of independent power producers shed a median 3%. The week's most…
MEDP gained 2.1% over the past week, a solid move in absolute terms but a step behind the median of its closest peers. CRL added 5.5% on the week. QGEN climbed 7.6%. TMO rose 3.7%. Medpace's own gain is real, but the…
Protagonist Therapeutics stands out in its peer group this week for the wrong reason: its short interest, at 15.2% of free float, is the most heavily shorted position among its closest correlated names. Against a…
Twilio slipped 8.1% over the past week but that loss sits modestly better than the median across its closest peers, where Cloudflare dropped 16.1% and Okta fell 14.4% over the same period. The relative resilience is…
VVV is a quick-lube operator with a straight-forward business model, but the week ending October 21 has produced a notably complicated set of signals: the stock is up 4% in seven days, yet options traders have rushed…
Waste Connections, the North American solid waste hauler, reported Q3 results on October 21 and now trades at $169.48 after a 10.3% weekly gain that briefly made it the best performer in its peer cluster, yet short…
SPCX reported Q3 earnings on October 20 and closed at $147.79, essentially flat on the day, yet the Street's response was anything but quiet. At least ten analysts raised price targets on Wednesday, all in a single…
TEAM is heading into its October 29 earnings report with short sellers making a modest comeback after a month of retreat, while analysts have spent the past week racing each other higher on price targets. Short…
Block, Inc. added 1.6% over the past week, closing Tuesday at $78.10. That trails the median gain of 2.7% across its closest correlated peers: RKT rose 3.9%, GPN 3.6%, and FOUR 4.2%, while AFRM was the only peer to…
HPE has dropped sharply since last week's note, with the stock losing 18.5% over seven days to close at $56.09, a move that has reopened the gap to analyst targets and pushed the stock well below the levels at which…
The trend flagged in the October 14 note has continued: XLRE is shedding short interest and borrow pressure simultaneously, while the ETF itself has regained ground, closing at $42.38, up 1.7% on Tuesday and 1.3% on…
The defining story on CRAK this week is a dramatic unwinding of bearish positioning, with short sellers pulling back hard and options traders swinging to their most call-heavy stance in months, even as the ETF itself…
LITE fell 16.7% over the past week to $822.51, a sharper move than any of its closest peers and one that sits awkwardly against a backdrop of rising analyst price targets and short interest that barely budged. The…
CIBR enters the final stretch of October with its lending market dramatically looser than it was a month ago, even as the ETF itself slipped 6.6% on the week. The most striking move in this week's data is in borrow…
AppFolio rose 12.4% over the past week to close at $223.70, outpacing the median gain of roughly 8.8% across its closest software peers. monday.com led the group with a 19.1% weekly advance, while Appian added 15.0%.…
Clearway Energy enters its October 30 earnings release with the Street still broadly bullish but quietly lowering its sights, even as short sellers show little sign of pressing their bets. The analyst picture is the…
Shopify is down 1.7% over the past week to $173.48, a soft patch that looks modest in isolation but stands out against a median gain of 2.2% for its closest peers, arriving thirteen days before the company reports Q3…
