Trader Note — 9349 total
Global Payments has spent this week caught between a short position that continues to unwind and an analyst community that still can't stop trimming its targets. Short interest has fallen another 14% over the past week…
General Mills heads into its June 24 earnings with short sellers in active rebuild mode, the options market pricing more defensive cover, and a Wall Street that has been cutting targets with rare unanimity. The…
Ford Motor has extended last week's sharp rally, adding a further 5.4% over the past five sessions to close at $16.15 — now trading meaningfully above the Street's mean price target of $14.35, a gap that widened…
Fastenal enters the final stretch before its July 13 earnings with short sellers quietly adding pressure — even as the borrow market remains among the most relaxed in the sector. The clearest tension this week is in…
Entergy Corporation heads into next week's earnings with options traders making one of the most aggressively bullish bets of the past year — at the exact moment short sellers are adding positions at pace. That tension…
eBay heads into its June 17 earnings call with short sellers rebuilding positions at a meaningful pace — even as the stock drifts off recent highs and the broader peer group rallies hard around it. The most striking…
DSG enters its Q1 2027 earnings release tonight having rallied 10% on the week to CAD 107.32 — but with a 2.9% pullback today hinting at some pre-print nerves. The week's setup is straightforward: a strong broad-based…
Danaher heads into the first week of June with options traders turning notably more constructive, even as the stock slips 2.1% on Tuesday to close at $176.11. The clearest shift this week is in the options market. The…
COST enters the week of its next earnings date with a striking reversal in options sentiment — and the question is whether that shift reflects genuine re-rating or simply relief after last week's post-earnings…
Conagra Brands CAG enters the week with shorts building, analysts turning more negative, and the stock at a price where the dividend math is starting to do the heavy lifting. Short interest has climbed to 9.7% of free…
Cognizant Technology Solutions posted its Q1 results on June 2 and fell 3.5% on the day, with short sellers holding their positions and the Street sharpening its pencils on price targets. Short interest has continued…
Cisco Systems has added another 8% this week alone, extending a post-earnings re-rating that has now pushed the stock to $128 — a level that leaves most analyst targets visibly behind the price action. The clearest…
Cheniere Energy enters June with a story of two competing forces: a Street that keeps nudging price targets higher, and a stock that just gave back 13% from its March peak — widening the gap between where analysts…
Caterpillar jumped 5.1% on Tuesday to $909.81, a sharp single-day move that arrived just one week before the company's June 10 earnings call — and the options market barely flinched. That composure is the most…
CPB heads into its June 8 earnings with a short position that has nearly doubled in six weeks and a borrow market tightening fast — a charged setup for a stock already trading near multi-year lows. Short interest has…
CDNS enters June with its most bullish options setup of the past year, even as the stock's 22% one-month rally begins to compress the margin of safety in the lending market. Options positioning has swung decisively…
CMS Energy enters the first week of June with a boardroom surprise — an immediate CFO departure — that landed hours after a historic options spike, framing a stock already nursing a 5% monthly loss in a newly uncertain…
Bristol-Myers Squibb enters the first week of June in an uncomfortable spot: the stock has shed 6.2% over the past week and 6.5% over the past month, while short sellers have been quietly rebuilding positions at the…
BA slipped 3% on Tuesday to $217.70, and the more telling shift this week is in the options market — where the bullish tilt flagged in last week's note has quietly faded. The reversal in options positioning is the…
ADP enters June with one of its sharpest short-interest build-ups in months — yet the broader lending market stays completely unconcerned, and a late-April earnings beat has the stock recovering sharply from a…
