Trader Note — 2287 total
CDW enters the post-earnings stretch carrying two contradictory signals: revenue that surprised to the upside and a short book that has grown 22% in a month. Q1 results, reported this morning, set the tone for the…
VOYA has staged a sharp recovery — up 24% over the past month to $83.11 — and short sellers have been moving the other way just as fast. Short interest in Voya Financial has collapsed from a near-term peak, shedding…
GlucoTrack, Inc. heads into the week with one of the most extreme short-interest profiles in the small-cap health care universe — a stock priced at $0.73 and falling, with bears commanding a position that dwarfs the…
Bright Horizons Family Solutions enters June earnings prep in an unusual position: the Street's biggest bulls are cutting price targets even as the company holds its ground, leaving a widening gap between analyst…
Travere Therapeutics arrives at the close of this week carrying two competing stories: a Q1 earnings beat that pulled the entire sell-side to raise its targets, and a cluster of insider sales from the same management…
Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust enters its May 8 earnings release under intense short pressure — short interest has nearly tripled in a month, cost to borrow is running at 340%, and a majority shareholder has been…
MPLX reported Q1 earnings on May 5 and delivered the kind of quiet beat that defines its investment case — a 1.7% one-day gain and a further drift higher through the week. The stock closed Wednesday at $55.66, up about…
Hyster-Yale delivered a rare positive surprise this week — one that the market treated as a turning point rather than a consolation prize. The forklift maker posted Q1 2026 adjusted EPS of -$1.64, clearing the -$1.80…
Par Pacific Holdings enters the week of May 6 in an unusual spot: the stock has finally caught up to where Goldman Sachs thought it should be, while insiders had already been quietly heading for the exits. The week's…
QLYS just printed a beat-and-raise quarter — yet analysts are cutting targets, short sellers have rebuilt a 13% position, and the stock is still trading 30% below where it started the year. The numbers on Tuesday…
Bloomin' Brands reported its strongest quarterly beat in recent memory this morning, yet the stock has barely budged — a combination of a freshly minted JP Morgan downgrade and a short position that remains elevated…
ServiceNow heads into its May 21 earnings report with short sellers having materially rebuilt positions over the past six weeks — against a backdrop of two consecutive post-earnings routs and a stock that has yet to…
Palo Alto Networks heads into its May 20 earnings call with Street analysts raising targets at pace — the clearest single tension for the stock this week. The analyst move has been unusually swift and one-directional.…
Diamondback Energy closed Tuesday at $206.18, down 3.5% on the day but up 3% on the week. That whipsaw captures the week's dynamic precisely: strong Q1 earnings followed by a sell-the-news session, against a backdrop…
TG Therapeutics reported Q1 2026 results today with a notable split: revenue of $204.9 million beat the $196.8 million consensus estimate, while adjusted EPS of $0.18 missed the $0.30 estimate by a wide margin. The…
OIH heads into the second week of May with a striking disconnect: the ETF has staged a 10% recovery over the past month while short sellers have rapidly unwound positions — yet the ORTEX short score holds near 67,…
SMH, the VanEck Semiconductor ETF, has just completed one of its sharpest one-month recoveries on record — yet options traders have barely relaxed their defensive posture. The rally itself is striking. SMH closed at…
QXO heads into its May 8 earnings call with short sellers at their most aggressive in months — and the stock already down 4% on the week. Short interest has become the dominant story. At 13.1% of the free float, it has…
APTV reported Q1 results that beat estimates — then fell to a new 52-week low. That gap between the fundamental beat and the price reaction is the defining tension of this week. APTV dropped nearly 8% on Tuesday,…
Marriott Vacations Worldwide enters the post-earnings period in a paradox: it missed Q1 estimates by $0.43 per share, yet the stock is up 9% over the past month and shorts have been cutting positions at one of the…
