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Renasant Corporation fell 3.9% over the past week, worse than the median decline of 1.1% for its closest regional bank peers. Short interest has climbed to 6.1% of free float, the highest in at least a year, and two…
Fourteen analyst notes landed on Intel in the 48 hours after its Q4 earnings. Almost all of them cut price targets. The stock closed Thursday at $65.76, down 28.6% on the day and 43% over the past month. The scale of…
PNR closed at $65.84 on October 29, up 24% over the past month, yet the cost to borrow its shares has tripled in a week. Three distinct signals are now moving together on a stock that was near a multi-year low less…
TD Cowen's Robert Moskow downgraded HSY to Hold from Buy on October 30, cutting his price target to $173 from $198. The reason: market share losses in core chocolate to Mars. Five other firms cut their targets the same…
Short sellers have piled into GLD at a pace rarely seen for the world's largest gold ETF. Short interest has risen 94% over the past week to 18.84 million shares, and the lending pool is now almost fully drained. On 22…
GE Vernova makes gas turbines, grid equipment, and wind technology. Its stock is up 7.3% over the past week, roughly in line with peers, and sits at $887.85 after a muted post-earnings session on October 29. Three…
Short sellers have added roughly 2.4 million shares to their VIK position since mid-October. Shares short now stand at 10.35 million, equal to 3.3% of free float, up 27% over the past week and 26% over the past…
Goldman Sachs just cut Bicara Therapeutics to Sell and slashed its target 60% to $8. The stock has already lost 45% in a week. Yet options traders are betting the other way with unusual conviction. Why this matters: A…
Fortinet dropped 20% in the week to October 29, closing at $139.10, after its Q3 earnings print triggered the sharpest target-price cuts the stock has seen in recent memory. The stock that had run 133% in 2026 gave…
Why this matters: GOOGL dropped 12.6% on October 29 following Q4 earnings, its sharpest single-day move in recent memory. Analysts responded with a wave of target cuts, retail attention surged to 4.1 standard…
Eli Lilly and Company delivered its Q3 results on October 29, closing the day at $1,373.70, a 6.6% single-session gain that extended the stock's one-month rise to 16%. Within hours of the print, four analyst firms…
AAPL sits at one end of its peer group on borrow cost: at 0.34%, its cost to borrow has risen 17.5% over the past month, a move that stands out for a stock with essentially unconstrained borrow availability. Public…
ServiceNow fell 29% on October 28 after an earnings miss. Short interest now sits at 13.3% of free float, down 12.3% over the week, and retail attention has spiked to 4.2 standard deviations above its own 90-day…
First Industrial Realty Trust has been hit by five analyst target cuts in eight days, including a JP Morgan downgrade to Neutral from Overweight on Thursday with a new target of $60, down from $74. The stock has fallen…
Equifax short interest stands at 4.57% of free float as of October 29, with 5.6 million shares short. That position has grown 5.6% over the past week, yet it remains less than two-thirds the size it was in early…
Dow Inc. is the lightest-shorted name among its closest peers, yet its borrowing costs just surged 79% in a week. Short interest at Dow sits at 4.16% of free float, below the 5.2% level from a month ago and lower than…
Why this matters: Three separate data streams converged on Public Service Enterprise Group this week. Nuclear output fell to a 4.8 standard deviation low versus its own history. Short interest collapsed 29% in a week.…
Why this matters: Argus Research flipped WEN from Buy to Sell on Thursday, a rare full two-notch downgrade on a stock already carrying 27.3% of its free float short. That call arrived the same day options traders…
Xylem has lost 17% in the past week. The stock closed Thursday at $90.76. Almost every analyst who covers it cut their target in the past 48 hours. And yet a board director spent nearly $1 million buying shares in the…
Four distinct data streams on NU converged this week, and the options market is telling a sharply different story from the short sellers. Short interest in Nu Holdings climbed 22% in a single week, reaching 4.1% of…
