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LHA heads into the post-earnings period with an interesting split: the stock just had its best week in months, yet short positioning has barely budged. Q1 results dropped on May 6 and landed better than expected — at…
Celsius Holdings enters its Q1 2026 earnings print tomorrow with short sellers quietly adding exposure, analysts trimming targets but holding buy ratings, and options traders leaning more bullish than usual — a setup…
CSD, the Invesco S&P Spin-Off ETF, has produced one of the more striking divergences in the ETF space this week: short sellers are piling in at a pace not seen in months, yet the fund itself is up sharply. Short…
LeMaitre Vascular heads into the post-earnings stretch with short sellers rebuilding positions and options traders running their most defensively positioned in a year — a notable combination for a stock that just…
XPEL is heading into its next earnings report with a meaningful short position still in place, even as the stock has bounced hard — a setup that puts longs and shorts on a direct collision course. The short position…
Leidos Holdings just delivered one of the more perplexing post-earnings moves of the season: strong Q1 results, raised full-year guidance, and an 8% single-day sell-off that pushed the stock to a fresh one-year…
CAR enters its May 20 earnings window in a very different posture than it held three weeks ago — and the speed of the reversal is the story. Short interest has collapsed. From a peak of roughly 27% of the free float in…
Alphatec Holdings reported earnings on May 5 and walked into a wall of target-price cuts — the stock climbed 9.4% on the week despite the downgrades, creating one of the more striking bull-bear tensions in the med-tech…
Mueller Water Products enters the week having just reported earnings, and the most telling signal isn't in the short book — it's in options, where traders have made an unusually aggressive pivot to the bullish…
Mastercard enters the first full week of May carrying two distinct weights: a 5.7% single-day drop from its April 30 Q1 earnings print, and a cluster of analyst target cuts that followed immediately after. The stock…
QTEC enters the first week of May in a striking position: short sellers have been aggressively adding exposure into one of the sharpest one-month rallies the First Trust NASDAQ-100 Technology Sector Index Fund has seen…
QQEW, the First Trust Nasdaq-100 Equal Weight ETF, closed at $140.17 on May 5 — up 2.8% on the week and nearly 10% over the past month — at the same time that options positioning has made a sharp pivot toward the…
FPX — the First Trust US Equity Opportunities ETF — is closing the week at $188.60, up over 7% in five sessions and nearly 16% over the past month. What makes the setup striking is not the rally itself but what the…
The USO lending market has reached its tightest point in the past year — every available share in the pool is currently lent out, borrow costs have surged more than 66% over 30 days, and the options market reflects a…
DUK delivered its Q1 2026 results on May 5 with characteristically little drama, reaffirming its $6.55–$6.80 full-year EPS range and flagging a push toward the top half of its 5%–7% long-run growth target from 2028.…
TransDigm heads into the week after its Q2 earnings beat in a conflicted position — results ran ahead of expectations, guidance went up, yet the stock still trades roughly 22% below consensus price targets as analysts…
Energy Transfer LP exits a strong week with an awkward tension at its core: the stock is up 5% in five sessions and trading at its best level in months, yet the cost to borrow shares has almost doubled over the same…
LYV closed Tuesday's session at $157.26, barely changed on the day. The stock is up 1.6% on the week. But the real action is in what happened after hours — Q1 2026 results landed on May 5, and they told a split story:…
Hercules Capital enters the post-earnings session with the most crowded lending market of the past year — every share in the borrow pool is now spoken for, and shorts are paying sharply more for the privilege. The…
VGK — the Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF — carries a striking split right now. Short interest has nearly doubled over the past month while the ETF itself gained 4.4%. Bearish positioning and rising prices are moving in…
