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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals heads into September with shorts retreating sharply and the Street lifting targets even as the consensus stays cautious. The most striking move this week is in short positioning. Bears have…
Public Storage heads into September with its sharpest monthly slide in months — and options traders have noticed. The self-storage giant fell 6.1% on the week and 6.6% over the past month, closing at $302.86. That puts…
ConocoPhillips heads into September with the Street playing catch-up to a stock that has already done most of the work, as a wave of analyst upgrades meets a stock trading near its highest level of the year. The…
Altria Group enters September with one of its more constructive setups of the year — shorts are exiting at pace, the borrow market is effectively wide open, and options positioning has normalised from an elevated…
SLI fell 8.7% on Tuesday to CAD 3.45, dragging its one-week loss to 3.6% — yet the data tells a story where bearish positioning is notably absent, and the day's pain looks more like a sector washout than targeted short…
PG&E Corporation closed the week at $14.06 — down 23% in five days — with a 6% Tuesday bounce, fresh analyst cuts, and rising short interest all pointing in different directions at once. The week's most decisive move…
ORCL enters its September 4 earnings print nursing a 5.2% single-day loss to $141.32 — the headline now is not how much hedging has built up ahead of the report, but how badly the stock has sold off with results still…
ONEOK enters September with two forces pulling in the same direction: a wave of analyst target upgrades landing this week, and a sharp reduction in short interest over the past month. The stock gained 4.4% on the week…
Occidental Petroleum closes out August having finally rewarded the call-heavy options positioning flagged last week — the stock added 4.3% across the week to $60.95, keeping pace with a broad energy rally. The…
OGE Energy Corp. heads into September with a fresh analyst upgrade pulling in one direction and a month-long drift in short interest pulling in the other. The most newsworthy development this week is a rating change…
Novavax is one of the more unusual setups in biotech right now — a stock that has rallied 38% in a month while carrying one of the heaviest short positions in the sector, with borrowing conditions tightening sharply…
National Health Investors enters September with a notable disconnect: short interest has surged sharply while the borrow market remains anything but stressed, and options traders are hedging at a pace well above recent…
Murphy Oil enters September with an intriguing split personality: the stock just posted its strongest weekly gain in months, yet the analyst community spent August steadily walking down their price targets, and the…
Modine Manufacturing heads into September with an unusual split: options traders have turned meaningfully more defensive while short sellers quietly reduced exposure — two signals pointing in opposite directions at a…
Micron Technology closes the week at $933.44 — essentially flat over five sessions — while its semiconductor peers suffered far steeper losses, and the market's attention is shifting toward the September 30 earnings…
Strategy Inc has given back some of August's spectacular gains — down 6% on Tuesday and off 1.5% on the week to $124.88 — but the short side hasn't used the dip to rebuild meaningfully, leaving the stock in an awkward…
Microsoft enters September with its two most persistent stories from August now resolving in the same direction — short sellers continuing to exit and the Street growing more confident, capped by a fresh analyst…
Mettler-Toledo International enters September with a modest week of underperformance that looks relatively contained given the broader life-sciences selloff battering its peer group. The stock closed Tuesday at…
Marriott International heads into September with its worst month in recent memory, down 10% over 30 days to $334.55, as analysts trim targets and the sector broadly sells off. The sector-wide retreat is the clearest…
MGM Resorts International heads into September with an unusual split: the stock has dropped nearly 6% on the week to $40.77, yet short sellers have been cutting exposure at one of the sharpest rates in months — a…
