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Wells Fargo arrives at its October 13 earnings date with the stock recovering from a rough month, analysts having largely reset their targets, and options positioning back to broadly neutral levels. The options picture…
UNH approaches its October 13 earnings release from a position of quiet tension: a stock down 5% over the past month that has partially clawed back ground, facing a set of questions about margin recovery that the…
PGR arrives at its October 14 earnings report trading at $217.43, up 3.4% on the week but lagging its closest insurance peers, most of which posted stronger gains over the same period on Friday alone. The peer…
JP Morgan cut price targets across at least seven industrial and consumer names in a single session, with GE Vernova seeing the sharpest reduction. The bank trimmed its GEV target to $1,150 from $1,330, a $180 drop,…
Procter & Gamble heads into its October 13 print with the most consequential pre-earnings development coming not from short sellers or options traders, but from the analyst community. The clearest signal heading into…
Pinnacle Financial Partners heads into its October 13 results with short sellers adding pressure at a pace that contrasts sharply with the broadly constructive analyst view. Short interest has climbed nearly 20% over…
OMC heads into its October 13 Q3 print with a meaningful short position, easing lending conditions, and a put-heavy options market that has become notably more defensive over the past month. Short interest, at 12.1% of…
Johnson & Johnson reports Q3 results on October 13 with the stock having clawed back ground after a rough patch, and the gap between analyst conviction and price action remaining the central tension. Since the previous…
Bill Gates filed a cluster of purchases in Republic Services worth over $269 million across seven trading days in late August and early September, according to the most recent disclosures in ORTEX's insider data. The…
JPMorgan Chase heads into its October 13 Q3 earnings print with one notable change from the picture described two days ago: options positioning has turned measurably less defensive. The put/call ratio closed Thursday…
Goldman Sachs reports Q3 results on October 13 with the stock down 13.6% over the past month yet options traders leaning more bullish than at any point in the past year. The options signal is the sharpest divergence in…
GE Aerospace arrives at its October 13 print with the stock recovering slightly but still well below its summer highs, and the analyst community in a quieter but distinctly more cautious mood than three months ago. The…
Citigroup reports Q3 results on Monday with one fresh development since the last preview: TD Cowen reinstated coverage on October 8 with a Buy rating and a $150 target, adding an explicitly bullish voice to a Street…
Banco de Chile reports third-quarter results on October 13 against a backdrop of flat analyst conviction, a softening price, and a borrow market that has tightened sharply over the past month. The most telling signal…
Short sellers have been busy this week. MMED (MiniMed Group) now has short interest at 102.9% of its free float, up 24 percentage points in seven days. Borrowing shares costs 42.7% annually. Availability sits at just…
AMX enters its October 13 earnings release with a notable divergence: the stock has weakened sharply over the past month, yet short sellers have been pulling back just as quickly. The price tells a cautious story.…
The week beginning October 13 is the heaviest single earnings stretch of the quarter. UnitedHealth reports Monday morning. Johnson & Johnson follows Tuesday before the open. Wednesday belongs to the banks: Bank of…
Options sentiment is splitting sharply ahead of a packed earnings week. The divergence is clearest in financials and healthcare, where approaching results are pulling flows in opposite directions. Truist Financial…
The week starting October 13 brings a concentrated run of major financial and healthcare earnings. UNH kicks things off Monday morning. The managed-care giant reports Q3 2026 results at 8am ET, with analysts watching…
Japan's machine tool sector delivered one of the sharpest readings in the ORTEX alt data this week. Domestic machine tool orders rose 62% in August year-on-year, reaching JPY 51,517 million, according to the Japan…
