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CBSH gained 2.4% over the past week, a decent move in isolation but trailing the median of its closest regional bank peers, which averaged closer to 3.0%. Among the names most closely correlated to CBSH, UCB led with a…
Comfort Systems USA dropped 14.1% over the past week to close at $1,397.09, a steeper fall than most of its sector but one that has drawn almost no response from the short-selling community. The sell-off landed at the…
Short sellers held their ground in KO after Tuesday's Q3 earnings report, keeping the short book near its highest level in at least a year. Short interest ended the week at 1.31% of the free float, 56.2 million shares,…
CLH enters its October 28 earnings release with a fresh upgrade from UBS and rising analyst targets, while the stock itself has slipped a fraction over the past week against peers that are broadly climbing. The analyst…
Cirrus Logic closed Tuesday at $110.81, up 2.6% on the week, but the analyst moves landing this morning tell a more cautious story than the price action alone suggests. The sharpest signal came from Barclays, where…
Churchill Downs Incorporated, the Louisville-based operator of the Kentucky Derby and a growing network of historical racing machine venues, goes into its October 28 earnings release with short sellers more active than…
Short sellers in CHH have trimmed positions even as the stock posted one of its stronger weeks in recent memory, a combination that puts the lending market and price action briefly on the same side of the ledger. Short…
CVX gained 3.7% over the past week, fractionally ahead of the median 3.3% move across its closest energy peers, and the stock now trades at $225.71, a dollar above the mean analyst price target. Among the peer group,…
CAKE closed at $116.43 on Tuesday, up 3.6% on the week, yet with 20.3% of the free float still sold short and Q3 results due October 27, the stock is carrying more bearish positioning than almost any other casual…
Caterpillar has dropped another 6.2% this week to $725.24, extending a selloff that has now erased nearly $140 per share from the August peak, and every metric in the setup is being read through the lens of the October…
Casella Waste Systems heads into its October 29 earnings report with a sharp price spike, a fresh analyst downgrade, and short sellers sitting on 8.3% of the free float. The story this week is a collision between a…
Capital One Financial reported Q3 earnings on October 22 against the most defensive options positioning in nearly a year, and the immediate analyst response has been a wave of upward target revisions across the…
CSX reported Q3 earnings on October 21 with options positioning showing its most call-heavy tilt in months, a sharp break from the cautious tone that had dominated the stock for weeks. The options market told the…
CMS Energy reports third-quarter results on October 27, and the week's most telling development is not in the borrow market but in the analyst community, where target prices have been moving in both directions even as…
Short sellers have been quietly adding to positions in EAT this week, even as the stock pulls back and the Street rushes to revise numbers before Tuesday's earnings call. Short interest in Brinker International climbed…
BA gained 2.1% over the past week, but that trails the median move of 5.6% across its closest aerospace and defense peers, several of which have seen notably stronger recoveries in recent days. Among the names most…
BMRN closes the week at $56.44, up 3.8%, with short interest at a one-month high and a cluster of analyst target moves arriving within 48 hours of its October 27 earnings report. Short interest has continued building…
Barrick Mining heads into its November 9 earnings with the stock extending its recent slide, now down further from the CAD 57.74 level noted in last week's note, while the broader gold peer group has largely…
Ball Corporation has climbed 7.7% in a week to $64.16, its strongest weekly move in months, while short interest has risen to its highest level in at least a year and options traders have just shifted to their most…
BOK Financial Corporation gained 2.9% on October 20, the day after its Q3 print dropped, yet the week's most telling data point arrived before the results: a put/call ratio that spiked to 0.82, the highest reading of…
