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Analysts made two notable directional calls this weekend. Estée Lauder was downgraded, pushing its consensus balance further toward sells. The stock now sits at 0 buys, 14 holds and 15 sells. The average target price…
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners heads into its October 14 earnings release with positioning that looks notably relaxed rather than charged. Options traders are not hedging aggressively. The put/call ratio of 0.67…
Elevance Health heads into Tuesday's Q3 results on the back of a 7% weekly gain, with the stock at $412.70 and the most notable pre-earnings signal coming not from the options market, but from its own CEO. CEO Gail…
First Horizon Corporation reports Q3 results on October 14 with analysts trimming targets, short sellers rebuilding positions, and the stock down 6.4% over the past month. The most notable shift since previous coverage…
Accenture heads into its October 14 earnings report with momentum firmly on its side: the stock is up 17% over the past month to $209.06, building on an 8.5% single-day surge after the October 1 beat, and options…
The most notable open-market insider buying in recent filings comes from two very different corners of the market, but the conviction reads the same way. Uber President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed on September 8,…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reports Q3 results on October 15 with the stock having given back some ground ahead of the print, but analyst conviction pointing firmly higher. The ADR slipped 1% on Friday…
STT arrives at its October 14 earnings release with analysts divided on direction, the stock down nearly 9% over the past month, and a short position that has grown quickly without any real conviction from the lending…
RIO heads into its October 14 quarterly production release with short sellers quietly covering and the borrow market effectively open for business, a backdrop that stands in contrast to the stock's 9% slide over the…
Morgan Stanley heads into its Tuesday Q3 earnings report with a striking divergence: the defensive options positioning that defined September has unwound sharply, even as analysts continue to cut their price targets…
ExxonMobil carries the most bullish options tone in months into its October 14 Q3 print, with the stock up 3% on the week to $168.94 and the analyst community freshly split on whether the year-to-date rally has further…
Bank of America heads into its Wednesday print with the stock attempting a modest recovery and options traders less defensive than they were a week ago. The put/call ratio has pulled back to 1.17, roughly a standard…
Short sellers made aggressive moves into two mid-cap names last week. MMED saw the biggest jump of any stock over $500M in market cap. Its short interest hit 102.9% of free float, up 24 percentage points in just seven…
Abbott Laboratories reports Q3 results on October 14 with the stock clawing back ground after a rough month, but still well below where the Street thinks it should be. The price recovery is real but modest. Abbott…
The week's defining event is a bank earnings wave. UnitedHealth Group and Johnson & Johnson both report Monday before the open. Bank of America follows Wednesday at 6:45am ET. State Street, Charles Schwab and Bank of…
Big bank earnings are the week's defining event. Bank of America reports Q3 results with its RSI sitting at a notably oversold 31.8. Analysts see 23% upside. Options flow heading into the print is being watched…
Today kicks off a busy stretch of Q3 results. UnitedHealth Group reports Monday morning, holding its earnings call at 8am ET. Johnson & Johnson also releases Q3 figures before the open on Monday. Tuesday brings The…
Japan's machine tool industry posted its strongest August since 2009. The Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association's final sales data shows August shipments reached JPY 147,354 million. That beats the previous August…
Analysts moved in opposite directions on two consumer giants this weekend. Estée Lauder was downgraded at the consensus level, shifting a sell rating from hold and pushing the stock further into bearish territory. The…
The most eye-catching open-market purchase in the latest batch of filings came from UBER. President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald reported buying 70,000 shares across two transactions on 4 September, paying a…
