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Brookfield Renewable Partners reports Q3 results on October 14 with the stock down 3.3% over the past month while its closest peers have moved sharply in the opposite direction. The peer divergence is the sharpest…
WTFC enters its Q3 results on Thursday with a notable build in short interest running against a broadly positive analyst consensus, leaving the stock caught between two competing reads on the regional bank's…
The most notable C-suite move in the latest insider filings came from UBER. Andrew MacDonald, President and COO, filed a discretionary open-market purchase of 54,325 shares on 4 September, paying roughly $75.65 per…
SMTC arrives at its October 15 earnings release with the most significant single analyst move of the pre-earnings period landing on the morning before the print, and a short interest position that has collapsed nearly…
FAST reports its Q3 results today with short sellers retreating and options traders leaning mildly bullish, even as analysts cluster around a price target that offers little upside from current levels. Bears have been…
Badger Meter heads into its October 16 earnings release with short sellers at their most aggressive in months, even as the stock has staged a quiet recovery. The sharpest signal heading into Thursday's print is short…
AZZ reports its fiscal second-quarter results on October 14 with short sellers quietly exiting and options traders positioned more optimistically than at any comparable point in the past year. The clearest positioning…
Procter & Gamble arrives at its October 16 Q1 FY2027 earnings release in a notably uncontested setup: shorts have stayed put, options traders are barely hedged, and the stock has recovered cleanly over the past…
Short sellers have piled into two mid-cap names. CHWY sits at 87.3% SI of free float. WOLF is close behind at 88.9% with zero shares available to borrow. Wolfspeed's cost to borrow is just 2%, keeping pressure…
IBN, the US-listed ADR of ICICI Bank, reports its Q2 FY27 results on October 17 with short sellers pulling back and options traders sitting in a broadly neutral stance, a setup that puts the quality of the earnings…
Q3 reporting season moves into high gear today. Bank of America and State Street both post numbers before the open. Charles Schwab and BNY Mellon follow tomorrow. Net interest margin will be the key line across all…
Options sentiment is tilting bearish into a busy week of Q3 results, with put pressure building on several large-cap names ahead of key prints from GM and TSLA. ORTEX options scoring shows the most negative 7-day…
Q3 earnings season kicks into high gear this week. Today alone sees three major financial names report results. Bank of America reports Q3 figures before the open today. State Street also drops numbers this morning.…
Retail attention for ADIA (Adia Med Inc) hit 10.0 standard deviations above its own history in the week to 23 September. That reading, drawn from Wikipedia pageview data by ORTEX, is the standout signal of the week.…
TD Cowen ran a sweep through life sciences stocks, lifting targets across four names simultaneously. The most aggressive call landed on RVTY. Revvity's target jumped from $130 to $175, a 35% lift, with Cowen keeping a…
Hedge fund Corvex Management has filed disclosures showing it sold more than $215M of ILMN stock across 42 transactions between May and early September. The activist firm, which holds a board seat at the…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week on several well-known names. Chewy saw the sharpest move among large-cap stocks. Its short interest jumped 17.5 percentage points in seven days. It now sits at 87.3% of free…
The single biggest story this week is Japan. ETFs focused on Japanese equities pulled in $13.4B net over the past week, with a flow imbalance of 87.3. That is the strongest buying pressure of any geography other than…
Citigroup cut SECZ to Neutral on Tuesday, even as the September borrow squeeze that defined the past month continues to unwind at speed. Peter Christiansen at Citigroup moved his rating from Buy to Neutral but raised…
Q3 earnings season kicks off in earnest this week. BAC reports Wednesday at 6:45am ET, with the market watching closely for net interest income trends. SCHW follows Thursday, where margin pressure has been a running…
