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Oracle kicks off a packed week today. The database and cloud giant reports Q4 2026 results after the bell. Oracle carries a $609 billion market cap. Short interest sits at just 2.1% of free float — bears are not…
Analysts raised targets on two steel giants and a chip maker on Tuesday, while one financial stock drew a rare downgrade. Nucor and Steel Dynamics both received target price increases. Nucor's consensus target moved to…
Insider filings this week reveal broad selling pressure across multiple sectors. The most notable cluster of activity involves FANG, AAOI, AMAT, and DDOG. At Diamondback Energy, CEO Matthew Kaes Van't Hof filed sales…
Bears are on the move. Data from ORTEX shows some sharp shifts in short positioning over the past week. HOG saw one of the biggest increases among recognizable names. Short Interest % of Free Float jumped to 16.6% from…
The clearest theme of the day is insider selling at AI-related names. NVDA director Mark Stevens filed $221M in sales last week. He sold 1 million shares at around $220 each. CRWV (CoreWeave) director Jack Cogen filed…
ORCL kicks off a busy stretch tomorrow. The software giant reports Q4 2026 results after the close on Tuesday, June 10. CASY holds its Q4 earnings call the same morning. Wednesday brings the heaviest load. ADBE reports…
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods downgraded LEN to Sell from Hold on Monday. Analyst Jade Rahmani cut his target from $97 to $86. That's a rare sell rating on a homebuilder with a $19.5 billion market cap. Jefferies went the…
NVIDIA director Mark Stevens filed sales totalling $221M last week. He sold 1 million shares across three transactions on June 2 and 4, at prices around $220. That is the biggest single insider exit in US markets over…
Short sellers made notable moves this week. NNE (NANO Nuclear Energy) saw its SI % of free float jump 3.7 points to 27.7% in just seven days. Bears are circling the small nuclear energy play hard. Availability stands…
The biggest story of the day is geopolitical. Iran shot down a US Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz overnight. President Trump posted a warning that the US "must respond." Oil markets and defence stocks…
ORCL kicks off a busy week for corporate results. The $609 billion cloud giant reports Q4 2026 results today, after the close. Short sellers hold a modest 2.1% of free float — a vote of confidence from the…
Wells Fargo analyst Joe Quatrochi raised targets across three semiconductor names on Monday. ON Semiconductor got the most aggressive lift — target up to $140 from $115. Texas Instruments moved to $300 from $260. NXP…
Short sellers trimmed heavily shorted WOLF last week. SI % of FF fell from 127% to 118% in seven days. That's still an extreme level. Zero shares remain available to borrow, keeping the squeeze risk real. NNE told a…
Fresh filings from June 9 reveal a split between executives heading for the exits and one bold founder doubling down. GigaCloud Technology founder and CEO Larry Wu filed the largest US executive sale. He sold $7.3M…
AAPL is under pressure today. Apple and Brussels are blaming each other for delays to the EU rollout of Siri AI. That's bad timing. Short interest on Apple already crossed 1% of free float for the first time in months.…
Today's session brings several confirmed earnings releases. Casey's General Stores and Cracker Barrel both drop Q4 results after the close. J. M. Smucker holds its earnings call at 9am ET. Designer Brands and United…
Analyst desks were busy Monday, with notable upgrades, downgrades, and target price revisions across several sectors. Insurance reshuffled. PRU — Prudential Financial — took a consensus downgrade, with the average…
Corporate insiders have filed a wave of large sell transactions in the past week. The biggest names involved include DELL, WMT, NVDA, and AI infrastructure darling CRWV. Silver Lake exits Dell. The investment firm and…
Short sellers made notable moves across several stocks in the past seven days. Three names stand out. NNE leads the movers. Short interest at NANO Nuclear Energy jumped to 27.7% of free float — up 3.7 percentage points…
GSK agreed to buy Nuvalent for $10.6 billion this morning. The deal prices shares at $124 — a 40% premium to Friday's close. It is one of the largest pharma acquisitions of the year. M&A activity in biotech is heating…
