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ETD Short Interest Keeps Climbing After Earnings Dip

Ethan Allen Interiors heads into early August with short sellers continuing to press their bet — even after the stock fell 3.7% on its July 29 earnings release and has since clawed most of that back. The short-side…

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Entegris Erupts After Earnings — Shorts Caught Flat-Footed

ENTG just delivered one of the sharpest post-earnings reversals in the semiconductor materials sector, surging 22% in a week and 15% in a single session after Q2 results landed on August 4 — a dramatic turn from the…

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Emerson Lifts After Earnings as Street Raises Targets

Emerson Electric has cleared its earnings hurdle and the Street is moving targets higher — the question now is whether a 14% one-month rally already prices in the good news. Two analysts acted within hours of the…

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eBay Posts Earnings With Shorts Retreating and Bulls Divided

eBay enters the aftermath of its August 5 earnings report in a genuinely unusual position: short sellers spent the past two weeks covering aggressively, yet the analyst community fractured in the final hours before the…

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Disney's Post-Earnings Setup: The Gap Stays Wide

DIS reported on August 5, and the stock is essentially flat — closing at $98.18, down less than 1% on the week — leaving the central tension from before the print entirely unresolved: a Street consensus implying…

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Devon Energy Posts Q2 — Now the Focus Shifts to What's Next

Devon Energy has just cleared its Q2 2026 earnings hurdle, and the stock closed the day at $44.05 — down 1.2% on the session but up 3.3% on the week, leaving the narrative squarely on what the print means for the path…

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DaVita Pulls Back After Q2 Results as Street Trims Targets

DaVita reported Q2 earnings on August 4 and the market's reaction has been swift — the stock dropped 2.4% on the day and is now down nearly 5% on the week to $227.99, reversing most of the pre-earnings momentum that…

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Analysts Lift Targets After CFR's Q2 Print

Cullen/Frost Bankers has emerged from its July 30 Q2 earnings release with a wave of upward analyst revisions, yet the stock at $168.26 trades fractionally below the newly raised consensus target — a narrower gap than…

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INGR shorts rebuild after earnings pop

Ingredion Incorporated heads into the week after Q2 earnings with short sellers rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in months — even as the stock just posted its best single-day gain in recent memory. The short…

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Comcast Finds a Floor — But the Street Stays Skeptical

CMCSA has bounced 11% off its post-earnings lows, yet the analyst community remains unconvinced the worst is behind it. The stock closed at $24.93 on August 4, up 3.1% on the week and 4.8% over the past month. That…

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FIX Rallies Hard as the Street Turns More Bullish

Comfort Systems USA enters the first week of August having just posted its best seven-day run in months, with a 9.2% gain lifting the stock to $1,775.86 — yet the Street's consensus price target sits roughly 25%…

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Cisco's Bears Go Quiet as Earnings Day Arrives

Cisco Systems arrives at its August 12 earnings date with shorts trimming, options relaxed, and a street that has been raising targets for months — a setup that sits in sharp contrast to the anxious re-entry bears made…

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CINF Slips After Earnings as Analysts Trim Targets

Cincinnati Financial has pulled back since its Q2 report, and the Street's reaction tells a cleaner story than the result itself did. The stock closed at $179.42, down roughly 7% from the $184.23 level it carried into…

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CRL Options Turn Defensive as Earnings Land

Charles River Laboratories reported Q2 earnings on August 5, and the week's most telling shift is not in the short book — which stayed quiet — but in the options market, where put demand has jumped to its most elevated…

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Lumen Falls Short of Its Own Bar After Q2 Earnings

Lumen Technologies reported Q2 results on August 4 and rose 4% on the day — but the Street's immediate response was to cut targets, not raise them, leaving the stock trading nearly 20% below the consensus mean and…

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CSWC Pops on Earnings as Shorts Face a Tighter Trap

Capital Southwest Corporation posted a 3.3% gain on Tuesday after reporting earnings, and the week's most interesting tension is no longer whether the print would resolve the long-vs-short standoff — it did, decisively…

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CVS Earnings Drop — Street Still Bullish But Stock Slides

CVS Health reported its Q2 results on August 5 and the immediate verdict from the market is a 4.5% weekly loss, even as the analyst community keeps its targets well above where the stock now trades. The price action…

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