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ATO added 2.2% over the past week to close at $167.13, a touch ahead of the median 1.9% gain across its closest gas utility peers, but the more striking move is in options: put demand has jumped to its highest level in…
AAPL closed Tuesday at $339.50, down 1% on the day and off about half a percent on the week, with eight days until the October 29 earnings print. The price gap that defined last week's setup has narrowed: the stock was…
NLY has reported Q3 results with the stock at $18.29, still 13% below where it traded a month ago, and the key question now shifts from whether bears were right to build positions ahead of the print to whether bulls…
Analog Devices enters the final stretch before its November 25 earnings with options positioning drifting more defensive, analysts lifting targets after a strong August print, and insiders selling into recent…
Amkor Technology fell 12.4% over the past week to close at $41.70, a sharper move than the median peer decline of 13.6%, as a same-day analyst target cut brought fresh attention to a stock already under pressure from a…
Amgen has extended its rally to 6.3% on the week, closing at $438.94, yet the options market has quietly moved to its most call-heavy reading in months, a notable shift for a stock that spent most of September weighted…
COR has put together its best month in over a year, up 11.2% in October alone, and the data behind the move points to something more than momentum: short sellers are cutting exposure, analysts are raising targets, and…
American Electric Power enters its October 28 earnings release with short sellers still at elevated levels but no longer adding aggressively, while a busy week of analyst activity has pulled in two directions at…
Short sellers have rebuilt a meaningful position in Ameren Corporation over the past month, even as the stock climbs and options traders lean heavily toward calls. Short interest reached 5.6% of the free float on…
AMZN closed Tuesday at $262.63, up 1.6% on the week, reversing most of the ground lost in the prior period when the stock dropped 4.7% to $250. The recovery comes eight days before the October 29 Q3 result, and it…
ALGN gained 4.8% over the past week to $150.50, outpacing the median 2.1% move among its closest peers, yet every analyst who has touched the stock in October has cut their price target, and Q3 results land in seven…
Alaska Air Group fell 9.1% on the week to $34.36, a steeper drop than any of its closest peers: UAL lost 5.3%, DAL fell 3.7%, AAL slipped 3.1%, and LUV gave back 2.5%. Only JBLU and ULCC, down 13% and 12% respectively,…
The post-earnings reset for Netflix has been swift and broad. More than ten analyst firms cut their price targets on Wednesday alone, the stock sits 2.5% lower on the week, and retail attention has spiked to its…
Agree Realty has now reported its Q3 2026 results, but the divergence between short sellers and options traders that dominated pre-earnings coverage has not fully resolved: shorts have continued adding exposure while…
Agnico Eagle Mines enters its October 28 earnings release with short sellers retreating and Street targets moving higher, a quiet convergence that stands out against a gold sector where peers are trading more…
AMD closed Tuesday at $534.74, down 11.7% on the week, yet the analyst community spent the same stretch lifting price targets rather than trimming them. That gap between what the Street is willing to pay on paper and…
Adobe has risen 8.7% over the past week, broadly in line with its software peer group, but the divergence between a retreating short base and unusually aggressive call positioning makes this week's setup more charged…
Abbott Laboratories has printed its Q3 results today and the market's initial response is a modest pullback, with the stock off 1.5% to $102.45, even as the broader medical devices sector rallied sharply. The peer…
VRNS is less shorted than most of its closest peers right now. Short interest sits at 5.0% of free float, down 27% over the past month. Among its correlation-weighted peer group, names like TENB and CRWD carry heavier…
Cablevisionón Holding heads into its November 6 results with the stock drifting lower and almost no fresh signal from analysts or large shareholders to anchor the view. The price tells a modest but consistent story of…
