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Tandem Diabetes Care heads into the back half of August with a notable split in momentum — a 27% one-month rally has prompted fresh analyst attention while short sellers quietly but consistently pare back…
Applied Optoelectronics heads into the back half of August with a striking contradiction at its core: short sellers are quietly reducing exposure while company insiders are locking in gains at every opportunity, all…
Two Harbors Investment Corp. enters the back half of August in an unusual position for a mortgage REIT: short sellers are backing away, borrow conditions are extraordinarily loose, and the options market is dominated…
The most interesting tension in BIL this week is a short interest figure that looks busy on the surface but tells a much calmer story once you look at the lending market underneath it. Short interest climbed nearly 14%…
Willdan Group heads into the final stretch of August with a notable tension at its core: short interest has climbed to a 30-day high while options positioning has simultaneously flipped toward its most bullish reading…
Silicon Motion Technology enters the back half of August as the standout defensive name in a semiconductor peer group that just had a brutal week — and the gap between where the stock trades and where analysts think it…
MannKind Corporation heads into the final week of August with shorts rebuilding at the margin, institutions adding aggressively, and analysts pointing to a stock that trades at less than half its consensus target — a…
Veeco Instruments heads into the back half of August with two competing signals pulling in opposite directions: heavy insider selling at the top, and a short base that has been quietly unwinding for weeks. The insider…
Take-Two Interactive heads into its September earnings with a notable split: the Street is lifting targets after a strong August print, but the CEO was selling shares into the rally. The analyst reaction to Take-Two's…
Sherwin-Williams heads into the back half of August with an interesting divergence: the stock is down 3.5% on the week while the analyst community remains firmly in the bull camp, with several houses lifting targets…
ISRG heads into the final weeks of August with an awkward split: the stock has bounced 8% over the past month but fallen 4% this week, while insiders cash out and short sellers quietly add pressure after earnings…
Insteel Industries enters the final stretch of summer with an unusual lending dynamic — shorts have been steadily unwinding and the borrow pool has swung from tight to extremely loose, even as the stock slipped 5.2% on…
Novanta Inc. enters the back half of August with a significant disconnect: shorts are sitting near 14% of the float while the stock has dropped nearly 13% in a single week, yet the borrow market shows no signs of a…
FNMA heads into the back half of August with a quiet week — up just over 1% to $6.29 — masking a more interesting story about where the Street has moved and what the borrow market is signalling about sentiment. The…
ELD is enjoying one of its strongest weeks in recent memory — up 14% on the TSX — as short sellers cut positions and a cluster of institutional buyers signal fresh conviction in the Skouries story. The institutional…
Canadian Pacific Kansas City heads into the final week of August with a quietly constructive setup: short positions are unwinding at pace, the lending market is among the loosest of any major rail stock, and the stock…
Seera Holding Group heads into its August 24 earnings release with an unusual amount of insider buying on the tape and a price that has recovered sharply from May lows — setting up a genuine test of whether the support…
JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — has moved sharply in the wrong direction for bears this week, climbing 4.6% to PLN 29.59 and now up 14% over the past month, even as the borrow market that defined the pre-earnings…
SoundHound AI enters the week with a subtle but meaningful shift — short covering has effectively stopped, and the borrow market that sealed three weeks ago has not reopened. Short interest ticked fractionally higher…
SPRY posted a 6% gain on the week to $6.30, but the real story is what's happening in the lending market — short interest remains near 22% of the free float, borrow availability is close to fully used, and the stock…
