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DIS short sellers have added meaningfully to positions over the past week, pushing short interest to its highest level in over a month, even as the lending market remains comfortably loose and the stock has gained…
Deere & Company enters its November 25 earnings report with the stock up 4.1% on the week to $665.83, yet options traders have quietly shifted more defensive than usual, creating an interesting contrast with what…
Deckers Outdoor enters November with two distinct forces pulling against each other: short sellers cutting positions after a bruising earnings period, while a near-certain index reclassification sets up a mechanical…
D.R. Horton, America's largest homebuilder by volume, fell 5% on Tuesday to $145.23, a steeper single-day drop than any of its close peers, while the broader homebuilder group pulled back 3% to 4% on the day. The gap…
Crown Holdings enters November with a sharp analytical divide on its hands. The stock has surged 13.8% over the past month to $120.73, yet JP Morgan chose this week to pull back from its bullish stance, cutting to…
GLW recovered 2.4% on Tuesday to close at $126.14, a small reprieve after a month that erased nearly a quarter of its market value, and the question now is whether the stock has genuinely found a floor or is simply…
FIX staged its biggest single-day recovery in months on November 3, jumping 7.1% to $1,285.13. The move matters because the stock had shed more than 25% over the prior month, and the question now is whether this is a…
Colgate-Palmolive enters the post-earnings week with the Street in an unusually unified mood, nearly every major firm raising its price target after the October 30 print delivered a 4.6% single-day gain. The analyst…
Citigroup drifts into the first week of November with the same tension that defined October: a broadly bullish analyst consensus sitting above a stock that has fallen 4.5% over the past month and whose options market…
Charles River Laboratories International has now posted its Q3 results, and the data picture that dominated the preview note has shifted in one important direction: short sellers are continuing to cover even as options…
Caterpillar has fallen 12.5% in a week, to $623.94, after Q3 results landed on October 29 with a one-day drop of nearly 13%, the sharpest single-session move in recent memory for a company this size. The earnings…
CBT has just reported its fiscal fourth-quarter results, and the market's immediate reaction confirms what the most extreme options positioning in a year was signalling: a sharp repricing downward. The options market…
CVS Health Corporation reported Q3 results on Wednesday, and the week's most telling signal is that options positioning reached its most defensive level of the past year on the day of the print, even as short sellers…
MTRN closed its earnings day with a 4.9% jump to $227.43, yet the stock has still shed 27% over the past month, leaving the bulls arguing over whether a floor is forming or the selloff has further to run. The…
BRKR enters the week after a fresh earnings print carrying a split message: the Street's most closely watched firm just moved to the sidelines, while short sellers have been quietly reducing exposure for a month. The…
The single most telling number on Boston Scientific this week is not the short interest, which at 2.7% of float remains unremarkable. It is the put/call ratio, which jumped to 0.63 on November 3, more than 3.6 standard…
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals heads into its Q3 earnings release, due after the close tomorrow, with short sellers markedly less aggressive than six weeks ago and options traders showing little defensiveness despite the…
Short sellers have added modestly to their Bank of America position over the past month, pushing shares short from roughly 82.4 million to 86.9 million. That puts short interest at 1.2% of the free float, up about 4%…
Ball Corporation fell 7.1% on November 3 to $63.21, its worst single-day drop in months, arriving on the same morning that packaging peers closed sharply higher, and Q3 earnings land on November 5 with the stock…
Avista Corporation heads into the week with an earnings print just landed, options positioning turning notably more bullish, and short interest creeping up against a stock that has quietly climbed 8% over the past…
