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ROL enters Wednesday's Q3 print with short interest entrenched near its highs, a wall of fresh analyst target reductions, and a stock that has already absorbed a brutal post-earnings selloff in July. Short interest has…
Elevance Health arrives at Tuesday's Q3 earnings with its stock 16% above the July post-results low, but options positioning has quietly shifted toward the most defensive stance of the past year. The put/call ratio…
RIO heads into its October 21 earnings release having shed 7% over the past month, with positioning data that remains notably relaxed despite the stock's continued weakness. The borrow market picture has not changed…
Reliance, Inc. reports Q3 results on October 21 with the stock up 5% over the past month to $411.17, sitting almost exactly on top of the mean analyst price target, and options traders turning measurably more defensive…
CACI International arrives at its October 21 results with options markets and fresh analyst activity both pointing in the same direction: bullish conviction is running unusually high. The clearest signal into this…
Pinnacle Financial Partners arrives at its October 21 results with short sellers still adding to positions after last week's earnings miss, while the analyst community and options market tell a notably more…
Packaging Corporation of America heads into its October 21 earnings report with options traders unusually bullish and analysts divided over whether the company's post-acquisition momentum can hold at current…
WSO.B arrives at its October 21 earnings report down roughly 8% on both a one-week and one-month basis, with short interest rising and the borrow market beginning to stir after months of almost complete quiet. The…
IBM reports Q3 results on October 21 with short interest continuing to build quietly against a stock that has recovered ground this week but remains down sharply on the year. The short positioning picture is…
The most striking pattern in recent filings covers Hong Kong and Chinese-listed stocks, with Viva China Holdings disclosing two open-market purchases in Li Ning worth a combined $64.1M. The trades, filed on 7…
GGG heads into its October 21 earnings release with the short-side retreat that began in early September still firmly in place, and the positioning picture has changed little since the earlier note four days ago. The…
WAB heads into Tuesday's Q3 results carrying a stock that has outpaced its industrial peers by a wide margin, while the options market has quietly turned more constructive in recent weeks. The shift in options…
NextEra Energy reports Q3 results on October 21 with short positions slightly reduced from the levels flagged in the last note, the borrow market remaining fully relaxed, and options sentiment a touch more defensive…
ExxonMobil reports again on October 21, and the options market has shifted tone sharply since the Q3 print a week ago. The put/call ratio has climbed to 0.73, now more than two standard deviations above its 20-day…
EastGroup Properties heads into its Q3 results on Tuesday with a striking divergence: short sellers have moved aggressively, while options traders have followed, but the borrow market remains wide open. Short interest…
Dover Corporation heads into its Q3 print on October 21 with a genuinely split signal: short sellers have been adding aggressively, but options traders are leaning bullish at an extreme not seen in years. The options…
BSX reports Tuesday with the sharpest insider-versus-analyst split in its recent history, three days before a print that will either validate the executive buying or confirm the sell-side's more cautious read. The most…
BA reports Q3 results on October 21 with the stock sitting at $190.21, up modestly from the $186.49 close flagged in the last note but still down 9% over the past month. Options positioning has stabilised since that…
BHP heads into its October 21 results with the lending market reversing the easing trend documented just days ago, and short positions rebuilding sharply. The most notable change since the October 12 preview is in the…
Avery Dennison reports third-quarter results on October 21 with the stock up 4.5% on the week to $175.31, sitting roughly 12% below the analyst consensus target of $199.50. The lending market tells a story of almost…
