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ExxonMobil has given back ground since the mid-week high, closing Tuesday at $160.64 — down 3% on the week and now sitting nearly $9 below the consensus mean target of $169.68, reversing the brief above-consensus…
Edison International heads into the final days of August with a notable contradiction at its core: short sellers are abandoning positions at their fastest pace in months, yet another analyst just stepped off the…
DY has shed 15% in a week and 18% over the past month, closing at $351.80 after what appears to be a punishing post-earnings reaction — the tension now is whether the analyst community's lofty targets, clustered well…
Donaldson Company reported earnings on August 26 with the most extreme options hedging the stock has seen in a year — and that positioning has now resolved, leaving behind a cleaner picture than the pre-print anxiety…
Deere & Company delivered a blowout Q3 print on August 20 and has since reset the debate: short sellers have largely capitulated, the Street is lifting targets, yet options traders remain more defensive than usual…
COST heads into its September 24 earnings window with its most striking signal coming not from short sellers — who are actually trimming — but from a sharp options repositioning that stands in direct contrast to where…
Corning Incorporated heads into the final week of August with its most defensive options positioning of the past year — even as short sellers quietly retreat from the stock. The clearest signal this week is in the…
CPRT heads into its September 3 earnings date with a contradictory setup: the stock is up 19% over the past month and 5.8% this week alone, yet short sellers have been quietly rebuilding positions rather than…
CIEN enters its September 3 earnings print with a split personality: options traders are the most defensively positioned they have been all year, while short sellers are actually rushing for the exits. The options…
Choice Hotels International heads into the final week of August with a clear split: short sellers are quietly covering, but options traders just turned notably more defensive. Short interest has been in steady retreat,…
CVX has retraced to $199.89 this week, surrendering the $205 level that featured prominently in last week's note — the first close below $200 since the early August recovery began, and a reminder that the Libya-deal…
Cheniere Energy enters the back half of August with an unusual split: the Street is in near-unanimous upgrade mode, yet options traders just flipped to their most defensive posture in months. The analyst picture is the…
The Cheesecake Factory enters the final week of August in an unusual spot — the stock has run 34% in a month, short sellers are cutting positions, options traders are turning less defensive, and yet the Street's…
Lumen Technologies enters the final week of August with an unusual split in its positioning signals — options traders have turned sharply bullish just as short sellers quietly add to their bets. The options market is…
CTS Corporation heads into the final week of August with a curious split: the stock fell 5.5% on the week to $56.69, yet shorts are only now beginning to rebuild after spending most of the summer in retreat. The most…
CMS Energy heads into late August with an unusual tension: short sellers are retreating at speed, yet options traders just turned the most defensive they have been all year. The options signal is the sharpest data…
C.H. Robinson Worldwide is caught between an unusually bullish options market and a Street that has spent the last month cutting targets — a split worth unpacking heading into October earnings. The options signal is…
Brinker International finds itself in a rare split-signal moment: a wave of insider selling at the top, a freshly initiated Outperform from Baird, and short sellers quietly rebuilding positions after a 33% one-month…
Boston Scientific enters the back half of August with an unusual combination: the CEO just made a nine-figure open-market purchase, short sellers are rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in months, and a wave of…
BA has extended its pullback from August highs — now down 5.4% on the week to $211.08 — and the options market has followed the price lower with its most defensive posture of the past year. The clearest signal this…
