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BioCryst Pharmaceuticals heads into its Q3 earnings release, due after the close tomorrow, with short sellers markedly less aggressive than six weeks ago and options traders showing little defensiveness despite the…
Short sellers have added modestly to their Bank of America position over the past month, pushing shares short from roughly 82.4 million to 86.9 million. That puts short interest at 1.2% of the free float, up about 4%…
Ball Corporation fell 7.1% on November 3 to $63.21, its worst single-day drop in months, arriving on the same morning that packaging peers closed sharply higher, and Q3 earnings land on November 5 with the stock…
Avista Corporation heads into the week with an earnings print just landed, options positioning turning notably more bullish, and short interest creeping up against a stock that has quietly climbed 8% over the past…
ArcBest reports Q3 results on November 6 with two months of rising short interest pulling against one of the more optimistic options setups in the stock's recent history. Short sellers have been methodical in their…
Archer-Daniels-Midland posted its Q3 results on November 3 and the market's response wiped out the call-heavy optimism that had defined positioning right up to the report. The shift in options positioning is the…
AAPL closed at $331.90 on Tuesday, now fractionally below the Street's mean price target of $333.28, a position the stock has not held since before October's pre-earnings run. The most consequential development this…
Aon plc is a stock where the short-seller and analyst communities have moved in opposite directions within the same week, creating a tension that sits at the core of this note. Short positions in AON have grown by 36%…
AMGN closed Tuesday at $461.26, down 0.9% on the day but up 3% on the week, and Goldman Sachs responded to Q3 results by lifting its price target to $536, the most aggressive call on the Street right now. Goldman's…
AME posted a 2.8% gain on November 3, the day Q3 results landed, pulling the stock to $248.58 and erasing most of the pre-earnings softness that had dragged it down nearly 4% over the prior month. Analyst reactions to…
COR reported on November 4 and immediately ran 4.7% on the week to $340.50, its strongest weekly move in months, while every short-selling signal in the data points the same direction: bears have been retreating for…
American International Group reported its Q3 earnings on November 4, closing at $80.53 after falling 2.3% on the day, a retreat that partially reversed a 7.5% gain built over the prior month as pre-earnings enthusiasm…
American Financial Group has just reported Q3 2026 results, and the stock sits almost exactly where the Street expected it to: at $153, with the consensus price target a hair above at $154.50. The ownership picture…
American Electric Power enters November with shorts quietly rebuilding after last week's post-earnings retreat, while analyst upgrades and rising price targets suggest the Street is growing more constructive on the…
MFA Financial heads into Thursday's earnings print with short sellers adding positions at the fastest clip in months, while options traders have shifted notably more bullish, creating an unusual tension in the…
AMZN has recovered 4% from its post-earnings low, but the gap between where the stock trades and where the Street thinks it belongs keeps the note interesting. The stock closed at $250.69 on Tuesday, up 2.1% on the day…
AMD fell 14% over the past week to close at $483.90, a sharper move than the median peer decline of roughly 5%, and the market's first verdict on a Q3 earnings report that landed into one of the most damaged sector…
Adobe enters December's earnings window with a familiar tension: AI metrics that look genuinely strong, and a stock that has fallen 29% in 2026 as the market struggles to reconcile them with flat full-year guidance and…
ATS Corporation enters November with a quietly defensive setup: short sellers have been rebuilding positions through October while the borrow market remains completely uncongested, leaving the stock's near-term story…
AGCO has spent the past week in an odd position: the stock added 7.5% after last week's earnings beat, shorts have quietly started trimming, and the analyst community cannot agree on whether the cycle is turning. The…
