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The week's biggest corporate event arrives Tuesday. GOOGL (Alphabet) reports Q2 results after the close on July 22. Investors will scrutinise AI-driven ad revenue and cloud growth. Options positioning is call-heavy —…
Today kicks off a busy stretch of corporate earnings. TFC (Truist Financial) reports Q2 results this morning, offering an early read on US regional banking health. The week's marquee event arrives Tuesday. GOOGL…
Analysts trimmed targets on several major names today. NIKE saw the sharpest consensus move, with the average target price falling to $51.12 from $51.36. The stock carries a $51.3B market cap. Short interest sits at 6%…
Short sellers turned aggressively bearish this week on two very different names. HTZ saw its short interest hit 70.8% of free float — up 11 points in just seven days. Availability of shares to borrow has fallen to…
Options traders are pricing in more downside protection for NI. The put-call ratio jumped to 1.09 on July 16 — 45% above its 20-day mean of 0.75. The z-score of 3.6 places this move in rare territory. It is the highest…
Short sellers have piled into MUU at a pace rarely seen in leveraged ETF markets. Short interest jumped from roughly 1 million shares on July 13 to 14.3 million shares on July 15 — a 4,895% surge in one week, pushing…
QUBT shares have fallen 31% over the past month. Now the options market is catching up with what the borrow market has been signalling for days. Why this matters: Four distinct data streams — short interest, cost to…
The week's dominant theme is earnings. Alphabet reports Q2 results on Wednesday after the close. It carries a $2.2 trillion market cap and bears are largely absent — short interest is just 1.46% of free float. Options…
Pre-earnings options activity is shaping up as a key theme this week. Alphabet and Intel both report. Traders are positioning hard ahead of both prints. Alphabet carries a $2.2 trillion market cap. Its short interest…
Today brings TFC — Truist Financial — to the earnings stage. The bank held its Q2 2026 call this morning, setting the tone for a busy week in financials. Tuesday sees AMSF AMERISAFE drop Q2 results after the bell.…
South Plains Financial reports Q2 results today against a backdrop dominated by one striking data point: its Chairman and CEO sold $12.4 million worth of stock just weeks before the print. The insider angle is hard to…
Vista Energy reports today against a backdrop defined by one of the most extreme borrowing cost profiles in its trading history. The cost to borrow VISTA A shares has exploded. At last reading on June 26, the…
Cohen & Steers heads into today's Q2 print with a notable split between rising bearish positioning in the lending market and unusually bullish options sentiment. The most interesting tension in the setup is short…
DPZ heads into its Monday earnings release with short sellers retreating rapidly and options traders turning more bullish than they have been all year — an unusual combination that sets up a charged print. The sharpest…
WAFD enters its fiscal Q3 earnings report on July 17 with the stock outpacing both its own analyst targets and its regional bank peers — a setup that puts the burden squarely on the print to justify the move. The stock…
Analysts reshuffled ratings across several large-cap names on Thursday. Two moves stand out. Corning received an upgrade from analysts, pushing consensus to a more bullish stance. The average target price now sits at…
Simmons First National reaches its Q2 earnings release today with defensive positioning that has only intensified since Monday's preview — the print now tests whether the bearish setup was prescient or…
Netflix reports Q2 results today having clawed back fractionally from its multi-month lows, with the print arriving into a market where analyst ambition has been methodically cut and the stock itself has barely moved…
INDB reports Q2 results today against a backdrop of receding short pressure and a sector-wide rally that has lifted the stock to its best levels in months. The positioning story is notably uncrowded. Short interest has…
First Financial Bankshares has released its Q2 results, and the market's initial verdict is clear: the stock closed up 3.6% on July 16 and has gained 5.4% on the week, reaching $36.50 — vindicating the call-heavy…
