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Ryman Hospitality Properties gained 4.4% over the past week to close at $129.98, a decent move in absolute terms but trailing the median of its closest lodging REIT peers. XHR rose 5.9%, HST added 6.8%, and APLE gained…
Short sellers have rebuilt positions in AJG to their highest level in at least a year, even as the stock has surged 11.3% over the past week to close at $259.26. Short interest now stands at 3.3% of the free float,…
FirstEnergy, the Ohio-based regulated electric utility serving roughly six million customers across the mid-Atlantic and Midwest, reports its Q3 results on Thursday after the close, with the stock up just 1.1% on the…
Fifth Third Bancorp delivered a clean Q3 beat on October 19, the stock gained 4.1% on the day and has added 4.4% on the week to $52.41, comfortably ahead of the 2.5% median posted by its closest regional bank…
FAST posted a muted stock reaction to its Q3 results last week, falling just over 2% on the day, but the week since has brought something more notable: options positioning has swung sharply toward calls, reaching its…
NextEra Energy reported Q3 results on October 21 with short interest at its highest level in over a year, the stock lagging most of its regulated utility peers on the week, and analysts cutting price targets even as…
EXC heads into its October 28 results with a coordinated wave of analyst target cuts behind it and a stock that has, so far, absorbed the downgrades without much damage. The target reductions came quickly. Morgan…
ESE enters its final stretch before November earnings with a clear structural shift at the top of its shareholder register: an activist is now on the register, short sellers are retreating, and the Street still sees…
Equifax has cleared its Q3 earnings hurdle with an 18% rally, and the question now is whether the post-print positioning tells a coherent story or a contradictory one. The short side is not the story here. At 4.3% of…
Entergy Corporation enters its October 30 earnings report with short sellers modestly retreating, even as a cluster of analyst target cuts signals growing caution about the pace and cost of its $57 billion capital…
Edison International has spent much of 2026 on the defensive, weighed down by wildfire liability concerns in Southern California, but heading into its October 29 earnings release the signals are pointing in an…
eBay has climbed 4.1% this week to $121.19, outrunning the near-flat median of its closest peers at a moment when two unrelated storylines, an activist filing and an index candidacy, are converging just days before Q3…
East West Bancorp reported Q3 results on October 20 and the stock followed through, climbing 2.2% on the day to $128.27 and adding 2.6% on the week, with the options call skew from the pre-earnings note now vindicated…
Deckers Outdoor enters its October 22 earnings report with short sellers sitting on an elevated position built rapidly over the past month. Short interest has reached 8.1% of the free float, up 33% over the past 30…
Danaher reported Q3 earnings this morning, and the question shifts from what the print would say to what the Street makes of it against a stock that has already retraced from its pre-results high. The price tells that…
DTE Energy heads into its Q3 results with short sellers adding positions at their fastest monthly pace in recent memory, even as the stock holds ground against a broader utility rally. Short interest has climbed 15%…
Costco has climbed to $994.61, up 4.2% on the week and 11% over the past month, but options traders are now the most defensively positioned they have been in months, and a new initiating coverage note from CICC adds…
GLW fell 11% over the past week to $132.26, a sharper move than most of its electronic components peers, though not an outlier in a week that punished the whole group. Options positioning is the most charged signal…
American Electric Power drew three distinct signals this week. An analyst upgrade, rising short interest and a spike in retail attention all converged seven days before the October 28 earnings print. BTIG moved first.…
Community Trust Bancorp reports Q3 results on October 23 with short sellers pulling back, borrow conditions extremely loose, and the bank's own balance sheet showing nine straight quarters of loan growth. Short…
