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GM reports tomorrow, Tuesday 20 October, followed by TSLA on Wednesday. Both are the headliners in a week dense with auto and financial sector results across the US and Europe. GM kicks things off first. Short interest…
Analysts reshuffled ratings across technology and financial stocks on Monday, with cybersecurity names winning the day and utilities taking hits. Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Palantir Technologies all received…
UBER President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed on 8 September, disclosing he bought 54,325 shares on 4 September at around $75.65 apiece. The open-market purchase was worth roughly $4.1 million. A second tranche of…
CHWY is the week's standout short interest mover. Short interest jumped to 91.2% of free float, up from 65.9% just seven days ago. That 25-point surge is one of the sharpest weekly moves ORTEX data shows among…
US equity ETFs pulled in $33.6B in the past week, the biggest single geography inflow by a wide margin. China was the clear runner-up at $10.3B, with a flow imbalance of 76.5, strong buying pressure. Taiwan added $5.3B…
Equifax reports tomorrow morning with three datasets pointing the same direction, and a fourth pointing the other way. Earnings are due October 20. Short interest has collapsed 31% in one week to 4.1% of the free…
Options traders are hedging harder against Trane Technologies ahead of its October 29 report. That caution runs directly against a busy stretch of bullish analyst activity, creating an unusual split in market…
Duke Energy options traders have turned the most defensively positioned they have been all year. The put/call ratio of 0.70 is not only a 52-week high but sits 3.2 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.61, a…
The week's two biggest prints land in the next 48 hours. GM reports tomorrow and Tesla follows on Wednesday. Both names carry light short interest, GM at 2.4% of free float and Tesla at 2.5%, so there is little squeeze…
Earnings season is reshaping options flows. TSLA and GM report this week. Both are drawing heavy options interest ahead of their prints. Tesla is down 21% year-to-date. Options negative bets rank among the highest of…
SHBI heads into its October 22 earnings release with short sellers quietly building positions even as the analyst community remains broadly constructive on the bank's improving margin trajectory. The most notable…
The week's biggest prints come Tuesday and Wednesday. GM reports tomorrow, with German car registration data, a leading indicator for GM revenue, running 133% above the same quarter last year. Short interest sits at…
MEDP reports Q3 results today against a backdrop of heavy insider selling from its founder-CEO, a wave of pre-print analyst upgrades, and short interest that has been quietly unwinding. The most newsworthy fact in the…
ServisFirst Bancshares reports Q3 results today against a backdrop of rising short interest, a recent analyst downgrade, and a stock that has lost 7% over the past month. Short sellers have been adding conviction into…
Meta Platforms reports Q3 results on October 21 with the stock down nearly 4% on Friday alone, analysts broadly raising targets into the print, and a history of post-earnings declines that will keep investors…
Tesla reports Q3 2026 results on Tuesday with the stock at $354.72, down 7.3% on the week and notably softer than the $375.23 level captured in Wednesday's trader note, and the options market has shifted decisively…
Cleveland-Cliffs reports Q3 results today with short sellers firmly planted and the stock trailing its steel peers heading into the release. Short interest is the defining feature of this setup. Bears hold 12.2% of the…
AGNC Investment Corp. heads into its Q3 earnings print today with short sellers meaningfully more bearish than they were a month ago, even as the borrow market remains accessible. Short interest has climbed nearly 20%…
Western Alliance Bancorporation reports Q3 2026 results today with options markets showing their most defensive posture of the past year heading into the announcement. Put buying has reached its most concentrated level…
WTFC reports its Q3 results this evening with the short-building narrative from earlier in the week having largely stabilised, while the analyst consensus remains firmly above the current price. The short position that…
