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BANC Drops 10% Post-Earnings While Peers Hold Steady

Banc of California enters August with a sharp disconnect between its own price action and the broader regional banking peer group — the stock fell 10% on the week to $19.15 while close peers FNB, FBK, and LOB each…

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PHINIA's Options Spike Signals Earnings Shock

PHINIA heads into the week after a punishing earnings reaction, with options positioning hitting a 52-week extreme and shorts adding quietly in the background. The most striking development is in the options market.…

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FTRE Shorts Build Into Monday's Print

Fortrea Holdings enters its August 3 earnings release with bulls and bears pulling in opposite directions — analysts racing to raise targets while short sellers add to already-elevated positions. The most striking…

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HR Posts Earnings Miss — Shorts Keep Covering

Healthcare Realty Trust closed out its Q2 earnings week with a 2.4% drop on Friday, but the bigger story is what short sellers did before and after the print — and what the analyst community did the morning results…

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WBD Heads Into Earnings With Shorts Covered and CEO Selling

Warner Bros. Discovery enters its August 6 earnings print with the stock up on the week, shorts at multi-week lows, and CEO David Zaslav having just sold $57 million worth of shares — a tension worth watching…

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BBAI Shorts Dig In With Borrow Near Zero

BigBear.ai enters the week of August 4 earnings with shorts deeply entrenched, options traders leaning bullish, and the Street quietly marking down its expectations — a three-way tension that makes Monday's print…

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SOXQ Shorts Rebuild as Options Turn Bullish

SOXQ heads into August with a striking split: short interest has rebuilt aggressively over the past month while options traders have swung to their most bullish posture in weeks. The positioning story has reversed…

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Roblox Crashes 27% as Earnings Miss Triggers Analyst Exodus

Roblox just delivered one of the worst single-session collapses in its public-company history, falling nearly 29% on July 30 after earnings, leaving the stock at $35.60 — down 25% on the week and 35% over the past…

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WMG Drops 6% as Peer UMG Craters — Earnings Due Thursday

Warner Music Group heads into Thursday's Q3 results with the stock under fresh pressure, down 6% on Friday alone, while its closest peer suffers a far more dramatic collapse. The most striking feature of this week's…

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HWM Digests Its Earnings Pop With the Multiple Back in Focus

Howmet Aerospace has given back some of its post-earnings gain, and the week's modest pullback has put the valuation argument front and centre again. The stock closed Friday at $282.26, down 2.4% on the week after the…

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WVE Analysts Cut Targets as Shorts Beat a Hasty Retreat

WVE enters the week after a Q1 results print with an unusual split: short sellers are rapidly unwinding positions while the Street scrambles to revise down price targets — a collision between two groups moving in…

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GoDaddy Crashes 17% as Analysts Scramble After Q2 Miss

GoDaddy absorbed its worst single-day drop in recent memory this week — a 16.7% plunge on July 31 that wiped out the post-earnings gains and left the stock at $82.74, down 11% on the week. The options market…

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FND Earnings Pop Meets Rebuilding Short Interest

Floor & Decor Holdings posted a clean earnings beat on July 30, sending the stock up 7% on the week to $57.57 — yet short sellers have been quietly adding to positions through the rally, creating an unusual tension…

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ICE Analysts Pivot to Raises After Q2 Results

Intercontinental Exchange enters August with a sharply changed analyst tone — the same firms that spent July cutting targets have started lifting them, a reversal that tells you everything about how the Q2 print…

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NCLH Sinks After Earnings While Cruise Peers Rally

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings delivered its Q2 results on July 30 and the market's verdict was immediate and harsh — a 10.7% single-day drop that leaves the stock down 12% in just one month, trading at $18.53 while…

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