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XPEL reports after the bell on November 5 with shorts still meaningfully positioned, options traders heavily skewed toward puts, and the stock down 5.3% in a single session on November 3. Short interest at 9.4% of the…
OC reported third-quarter earnings on November 4 into a market that had already spent weeks pricing in a weaker outlook, with analysts cutting targets across the board and the stock down 6.2% on the day to $117.76. The…
CAR has just come through its Q3 earnings release with a story that is turning back in favour of the bears: short interest, which spent most of last week retreating, has reversed course and the ORTEX short score has…
NNN REIT enters November with a familiar but sharpening tension: a stock that looks cheap on fundamentals, backed by stable occupancy and a modest short position, yet trailing its net-lease peers by a meaningful margin…
USO enters the new week with short interest still near its highest level in months, but a week of price declines and easing borrow conditions have shifted the texture of the trade. Short interest has held its ground…
DUK is tracking broadly in line with its utility peer group this week, up 1.4% against a median gain of roughly 1.5% for its closest correlated names, though the stock has slipped back to $126.51 after Tuesday's 1.5%…
Ternium S.A. has now reported Q3 results, and the story shifts from pre-earnings caution to post-earnings reckoning: the stock closed at $51.65, down 5.5% on the week, while most of its steel peers moved in the…
Innospec Inc. has just reported Q3 results, and the question now is whether the extreme bullish options positioning flagged ahead of the print was vindicated or caught offside. The options market made a striking…
Fidelity National Information Services has seen short interest build steadily over the past month even as the stock itself staged a sharp recovery, a divergence that sets up an unusual tension heading into this week's…
United Airlines Holdings finds itself in an unusual position this week: the aggressive short covering documented in the last note has held, but the options market has pushed even further into bullish territory,…
AT&T added 2.1% over the past week to close at $21.39, a partial recovery from the 10.6% collapse reported in this column last Tuesday, though the rebound trails the median 2.6% gain across its closest telecom peers…
ATRC enters November with momentum behind it: a strong earnings print just delivered, three analysts immediately raising price targets to $70, and short interest sitting at a meaningful 9.8% of free float that has been…
Expedia Group is the most shorted name among its closest travel peers right now, with short interest at 6.7% of the free float, a level that climbed 25% over the past month. For context, closest peer Booking Holdings…
DiamondRock Hospitality has just printed its Q3 results and the central question for the week ahead is whether the Street's cautious consensus can survive a stock that has already run past most analyst targets. Short…
HUN has just reported its Q3 results with short interest at the lightest level in at least a year, call options dominating the order book, and a confirmed takeover by Olin reshaping the ownership calculus around the…
NICE Ltd. heads into its November 12 earnings release with the stock having shed 11.5% over the past week, a move that sits in sharp contrast to most of its correlated peers, which finished the week flat to modestly…
Shinhan Financial Group posted a solid quarterly result last week, gained 2.7% on the day of the print, and has since given most of that back, leaving the stock down 18% over the past month at KRW 85,600 and sitting at…
Chunghwa Telecom sits at one of the quieter corners of the global telecoms lending market right now, while most of its closest peers carry noticeably heavier short positioning. Among the correlated peer group, TELIA…
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group gained 1.3% over the past week to close at JPY 3,155, but that modest recovery looks thin beside its closest megabank rivals. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group rose 2.4% over the same…
LATAM Airlines Group has just reported Q3 results, and the story has shifted decisively from the borrow-market drama of the past two weeks toward a quieter question: what happens to the stock now that the event has…
