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Flowco Clears Earnings Bar as Lock-Up Expiry Looms

FLOC just posted a clean beat on Q1 results — and walked into it carrying a freshly expired lock-up, a dividend hike, and short interest that more than doubled over the past month. The headline numbers were…

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Skycorp Solar shorts explode as borrow cost hits 847%

PN entered May having tripled in price in a single week — and the lending market responded with an unprecedented wave of short selling that is now the defining story in this stock. Short interest has become extreme,…

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EGGY's Brief Borrow Crunch Has Fully Unwound

EGGY — the Tidal Trust III NestYield Dynamic Income ETF — enters the first week of May with its borrow market completely normalised after a sharp but short-lived squeeze in late April. The more striking story is what…

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BKCG Rides a Quiet Month Higher

BKCG, BNY Mellon's Concentrated Growth ETF, has quietly put together its best month of the year — up nearly 10% over the past 30 days to close at $37.30 — while the short-selling community has essentially nothing to…

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Analysts Lift Targets as SIRI Shorts Quietly Retreat

Sirius XM heads into its May 28 Q1 results with analysts moving in the same direction for the first time in months, while shorts — still carrying a meaningful position — have been slowly covering since mid-April. The…

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TBH shorts surge before earnings

Brag House Holdings, Inc. enters tomorrow's earnings print with short interest that has multiplied fourfold since late March — and a borrow market that tells its own story about the pressure building in this micro-cap…

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TEL shorts retreat, but Street trims targets after Q2 miss

TE Connectivity heads into early May with a stock that has recovered some post-earnings ground, while short sellers quietly rebuild positions and analysts digest a quarter that underwhelmed on datacenter exposure. The…

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AIPI Options Shift as ETF Settles Into Calmer Waters

Options positioning on AIPI has turned notably more defensive this week — a sharp pivot from the near-total call dominance that defined April. The clearest signal is in the put/call ratio. It jumped to 0.44 on Tuesday,…

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Ferguson Beats Estimates, Street Lifts Targets

Ferguson Enterprises reported Q3 results on May 5 and the reaction was complicated — a solid beat triggered multiple analyst upgrades, yet the stock still fell 3% on the day, and is now trading at $252.81, down about…

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SOLV beats but the Street trims targets

Solventum Corporation delivered a clean Q1 beat and tightened its full-year guidance — but the post-earnings reaction from analysts tells a more cautious story, as most firms lowered price targets even while holding…

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MNDR Shorts Explode From Zero to 47% of Float in Ten Days

MNDR has become one of the most aggressively shorted small-cap names on Nasdaq this week, as a headline-driven price spike drew a massive wave of new short positions in under a fortnight. The catalyst arrived on May 4.…

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Reddit bulls take control as shorts capitulate post-earnings

RDDT delivered one of its sharpest weekly moves of the year, gaining 16% to close at $171.63 — and the story behind that move is a short base that sprinted in the wrong direction. The numbers tell a clean story of…

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CRE8 Borrow Market Reaches Near-Crisis Tightness

CRE enters the week ahead of its May 19 earnings with the borrow market close to fully seized — a tension that makes an already volatile micro-cap even harder to trade for short sellers. The lending picture is extreme.…

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SKK Shorts Double as Drone Deal Sparks Wild Swing

SKK Holdings, the Malaysian-headquartered construction and engineering micro-cap, delivered one of the most turbulent weeks in its short Nasdaq life. The stock surged roughly 700% on Monday after announcing a ~$258.8M…

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STFS shorts retreat sharply as borrow tightens

Star Fashion Culture Holdings Limited is a micro-cap Nasdaq-listed advertising name where the most striking development this week is not where short interest is today — it's how far it has come down from where it was…

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HUT analysts chase the stock higher after Q1 results

Hut 8 Corp. reported Q1 earnings on May 6 with the stock already up 67% in a month — and the analyst community immediately raised the bar again. BTIG lifted its target to $115 from $90 and Piper Sandler moved to $127…

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