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Dr. Reddy's Laboratories heads into its October 23 quarterly results with options markets signalling a notably more cautious stance than usual, even as short sellers ease their positions in the lending market. The most…
Crown Holdings arrives at its Q3 earnings release on October 20 with the bullish tilt that was the story four days ago largely intact, though options positioning has pulled back from its record extreme. The put/call…
Coca-Cola FEMSA heads into its October 23 results riding a strong run, but with the Street offering little conviction about further upside. Options positioning is relaxed into the print. The put/call ratio is 0.57,…
Short sellers added to bets against CHWY last week. Short interest rose 4.3 percentage points to 91.5% of free float. That is one of the highest readings among mid-cap US names right now, and it kept climbing as the…
W. R. Berkley Corporation heads into its October 23 earnings release with options positioning at one of its most call-heavy extremes in a year, even as the stock already trades above where most of the Street thinks it…
American Express heads into its October 23 Q3 earnings release with options markets running the most bullish they have been all year. The options signal is the standout. The put/call ratio has dropped to 0.56, more…
The week's biggest market event arrives tomorrow. Tesla reports Q3 2026 results after the close on Tuesday. German car registrations, which ORTEX alt data measures as leading Tesla revenue by 43 days with a strong fit,…
A dense earnings week is shaping up as the main driver of options positioning. Tesla reports Q3 results on 21 October and General Motors drops its numbers today. Both stocks sit at the heart of the market's…
Today alone carries four major reports. GM kicks things off this morning with Q3 2026 results. German car registrations, a dataset measured to lead GM revenue by 15 days, ran 133% above the same quarter last year…
Real-economy data from public registers and regulators is printing records on three continents this month. The headline is in Canada, where bank balance sheets crossed a threshold never seen before. Alongside it,…
The biggest target price moves today sit at opposite ends of the sentiment dial. Canaccord Genuity lifted its price target on ILMN by $95 to $300, a 46% jump in a single cut. The rating stays Hold, but the magnitude of…
The ORTEX insider database, which covers non-US markets via vendor data and runs to a latest filing date of 8 September 2026, shows a clear pattern of institutional and corporate selling in the most recent window, with…
CHWY carries the most extreme short position among large US stocks. Short interest sits at 91.5% of free float. That is up 4.3 percentage points in a week, the biggest weekly rise in the dataset. IBTA is the…
The single biggest money flow story of the past week is a sharp reversal in equity preferences. US-listed tech ETFs took in $7.6B net over seven days, making Information Technology the top sector by far. That stands in…
Call buyers are flooding into HBCP hours before Home Bancorp reports earnings on 20 October. The put-call ratio has dropped to 1.19, down 3.6 standard deviations from its 20-day mean of 1.46. That is the most…
Retail attention on Shoals Technologies Group spiked to 7.7 standard deviations above its 90-day average on October 19, per Wikipedia pageviews and ORTEX stock page traffic. That is an extraordinary reading for a stock…
Markets are bracing for a concentrated run of major results. GM kicks things off Monday, with ORTEX alt data showing German car registrations running 133% above the same quarter last year, a dataset that leads GM…
Options sentiment is tilting bullish heading into a packed earnings week. But a few names are flashing signals worth watching closely. Tesla reports Q3 results tomorrow. Short interest sits at just 2.5% of free float.…
GM kicks things off tomorrow, Monday 20 October, with its Q3 2026 results. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX leads GM's revenue by 15 days. That dataset is running 133% above the same quarter last year, all…
The most striking target price move of the day comes from ILMN. Canaccord Genuity raised its target to $300 from $205, a $95 jump. The analyst maintained a Hold rating. That gap between a bold target and a tepid rating…
