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Thales heads into November having gained 3.4% on the week, a solid performance, but one that looks modest against a surging peer group where several names put up double-digit moves. The standout tension this week is…
North Pacific Bank heads into its November 11 results with a sharp weekly gain behind it and a quietly building signal in its lending market: borrowing costs have climbed while the broader regional bank sector moves in…
AstraZeneca has had one of its strongest weeks in months, jumping nearly 9% as Thursday's Q3 results gave bulls fresh ammunition. The question now is whether the rally has legs or whether the stock is simply closing…
TRN closes out October as the steady hand in a sector that moved more decisively around it, with the stock gaining 1.2% on the week while several of its closest peers posted stronger runs ahead of the Italian grid…
TEVA closed at $42.09 on Friday, up 7% on the week, and the options market is leaning harder into the upside than at almost any point in the past year. The put/call ratio finished at 0.49 on Thursday, more than one…
Coherent Corp. fell 11.3% on Friday to $210.32, giving back most of the 14% bounce that had looked so convincing just 24 hours before fiscal Q1 earnings landed. The reaction resets the picture described in Thursday's…
Lumen Technologies enters its November 3 earnings report with the options market tilted more bullish than it has been in months, even as short sellers hold their ground at a meaningful level of the float. The options…
IQM Quantum Computers heads into its November 5 earnings release carrying two competing forces: a stock down 15% over the past month and a set of MSCI index inclusion forecasts that would require passive buyers to…
FRBT enters the final day of October having posted a 4.4% weekly gain and a solid earnings-day pop, and the question now is whether the Street's freshly raised targets give the stock a second leg. The immediate…
FDXF delivered a sharp re-rating this week, with the stock jumping 15% after its first quarterly earnings as an independent public company, and analysts moving quickly to lift their targets in response. The print…
ARM shares fell nearly 10% on Friday alone, closing at $205.97. The one-month loss now stands at 30%. Among its closest Nasdaq peers, AMD dropped 10.9% on the day, LSCC fell 9.7%, and MRVL was down 10%. ARM's weekly…
Fortrea Holdings just delivered its sharpest one-day drop of the year, down 7.9% on October 30 to $21.29, after a quarterly print that clearly disappointed. The week's most striking development is not the sell-off…
OABI enters its November 5 earnings report in an unusual spot: short sellers have been quietly cutting positions for two weeks while options traders show some of the most lopsided bullish skew of the past year. The…
FIGS, Inc. is drawing a sharply divided response this week: short sellers are piling in at a rate well above the stock's historical norm, while analysts are simultaneously raising their price targets and the shares…
Alignment Healthcare delivered a brutal post-earnings session, with the stock falling nearly 10% to $7.27 on Thursday after the company reported quarterly results, leaving shares down roughly 8% on the month and…
COMP shares fell 7.7% this week to $9.00, an almost five-fold larger drop than the median -1.6% move across its closest real estate peers, arriving five days before a Q3 earnings release that has already pulled in a…
Coinbase Global reported Q3 results on October 29 and the Street's reaction was swift: the stock fell 11.6% the following day, seven analysts trimmed price targets on the same morning, and the shares now trade at…
ARES closed the week at $128.15, up 5% on the week, as investors absorbed a Q3 earnings release that landed on October 30 and set off an immediate wave of analyst target revisions pulling in opposite…
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings is carrying post-earnings momentum into week-end, with shorts continuing to retreat, the Street raising targets, and options traders staying firmly in the bullish camp. The short…
Carvana has nearly half its free float sold short, yet the past week has belonged to the bulls: shares jumped 18.1% to close at $68.29 on the back of a strong earnings print, leaving short sellers nursing losses…
