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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…
The most notable disclosed activity in recent weeks comes from Evolution AB, the Swedish live-casino group. Major shareholder Kenneth Bryan Dart filed purchases worth a combined $716 million, buying on 21 July and 24…
Short sellers are moving fast this week. Chewy saw the biggest SI jump among large US names, with short interest rising to 91.5% of free float from 87.3% a week ago, a 4.3 percentage point move. Shares to borrow are…
J&J Snack Foods enters its November 16 earnings window with an unusual configuration: short sellers are pulling back just as options traders rotate from defensive to bullish positioning, while the stock itself has…
South Plains Financial reports Q3 results on October 22, three days away, with the most notable feature of this week's setup not the shorts but the insider register. Directors have been net sellers to the tune of…
United Therapeutics enters its October 28 earnings report with a striking split: analysts are raising targets with fresh conviction while short sellers, having made their big move last week, are now sitting still. The…
The LYXOR Smart Overnight Return ETF, listed on the LSE under the ticker SMTC, is one of those instruments that generates ORTEX data almost entirely as a matter of mechanical completeness rather than genuine…
Willis Towers Watson enters its October 29 earnings report with a curious split: the stock has rallied 6.5% on the week to $315.49, yet analysts have been cutting targets and short sellers have been quietly rebuilding…
Univest Financial enters its October 28 earnings release with short sellers quietly adding exposure and the stock nursing a one-month loss even as the broader week turned mildly positive. The short interest story is…
Celcuity heads into the final stretch before its November 13 earnings with a striking contradiction: the options market is showing its most bullish tilt in weeks, even as the stock posts one of its worst weekly…
APPS enters the week ahead of its November 2 earnings report in a contradictory position: the stock is down 16% over the past month and off 8% on the week, yet the analyst community has turned sharply positive, with…
CIVB heads into Wednesday's Q3 earnings call with its balance sheet at record size, short interest low and climbing, and analysts marking targets above the current price. The lending market tells a story of complete…
Zebra Technologies enters its November 3 earnings report with an unusual configuration: short sellers have been exiting, analyst targets are moving higher, and the stock still trades below the consensus price target…
Victory Capital Holdings enters the final stretch before its November 4 earnings with short sellers pulling back slightly from last week's peak, even as JP Morgan becomes the latest firm to raise its price target…
Short sellers have added aggressively to positions in WAFD over the past month. The stock is down 11.7% in October and two analysts lowered their price targets this morning after earnings. Short interest in WaFd has…
Uranium Energy Corp. has shed 14% in a week and 22% in a month, yet options traders are piling into calls at a near-record pace, creating one of the more contradictory setups in the uranium complex right now. The…
AEHR enters the week before its November 2 earnings report with a 28% loss over five trading days, a short base stubbornly near 18% of float, and an options market that has abruptly pivoted away from defensiveness. The…
Park National Corporation heads into its Q3 earnings release today with short sellers having built their most aggressive position in a month and retail attention spiking to an unusual high. Short interest has risen…
DJCO heads into the week of October 19 with a 12% one-month decline to $602.99, an activist shareholder who has cut his stake in half, and a short score that has eased but remains elevated. The most newsworthy…
Options traders are piling into calls on DXC ahead of a 29 October earnings print. Short sellers are building positions at the same time. Both camps are making aggressive moves, and the data is moving fast. The…
