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PLTR earned a consensus upgrade this week. The average analyst target now stands at $200.88, up from $199.84. That move reflects growing Wall Street confidence in the AI data firm. VLO saw the biggest target price jump…
Uber Technologies' President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed on 8 September that he bought 70,000 shares of UBER on 4 September, paying roughly $75.65 to $76.44 per share. The two tranches combined were worth…
Short sellers moved aggressively in the past week. The biggest mover was MMED (MiniMed Group), where short interest as a percentage of free float jumped 22 percentage points in seven days to 99%. Shares have a ORTEX…
The day's biggest deal came from pharma. VTRS announced it will acquire PCRX in a move to build out its non-opioid painkiller portfolio. The buyout is the clearest sign yet that generic drug makers are looking beyond…
Constellation Brands woke up Thursday to five analyst actions, all pointing down. The most striking was HSBC's Sorabh Daga, who cut the stock from Buy to Hold and slashed the price target 30% to $135 from $192. It is…
Semiconductor stocks are pulling options flow in opposite directions this week. Bearish and bullish bets are piling into the same names, a sign of elevated uncertainty around the sector's next move. Micron Technology…
The week's biggest earnings action lands at the end of the period. BAC holds its Q3 2026 call on Wednesday 14 October, followed the same day by STT. BNY reports Q3 on Wednesday evening, with its call on Thursday 15…
Japan's machine tool orders delivered one of the sharpest readings of the year in August 2026. Total orders hit JPY 197,867 million, up 65% on August 2025, according to the Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association…
PLTR topped the analyst action table today. The consensus rating was upgraded, with the average target price rising to $200.88 from $199.84. The stock carries a market cap above $446 billion. Short interest sits at…
UBER President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed a significant open-market purchase on September 8, disclosing he bought 54,325 shares at $75.65 apiece. The transaction totalled $4.1 million. The trade is discretionary.…
Short sellers made their sharpest moves this week in housing and consumer names, according to ORTEX data as of October 7. LEN saw the biggest jump among large-caps. Lennar's short interest rose to 14.1% of free float,…
The headline story this week is active management. Active ETFs pulled in $76.8B in net flows over the past seven days alone. That compares with $177B over three months, meaning the pace has sharply accelerated. The…
Karman Holdings is under fresh pressure this week, down 5.7% on Wednesday alone and 21% over the past month, with the Street still broadly bullish but quietly trimming its ambitions for the stock. The most telling…
CRDO enters its October 12 earnings report in an unusual spot: the stock is up 29% in a month, shorts have been cutting exposure, and analysts are still bullish on the name even after trimming targets following last…
Lucid Group heads into its November earnings with short sellers sitting on a near-immovable position, the stock down another 6.5% on Wednesday to $3.89, and the lending pool still almost entirely dry. The short book…
Hims & Hers Health closed Wednesday at $29.54, up fractionally on the day but essentially flat on the week, with the short position continuing its slow retreat from August highs even as the structural bear thesis…
Shift4 Payments heads into its November 6 earnings report with short interest still high, borrow conditions normalising fast, and a wall of analyst price cuts absorbing a stock that has lost 15% over the past…
CHWY enters the final stretch before its December 2 earnings report with a curious split in its positioning signals: short sellers have been quietly trimming exposure while options traders have become meaningfully more…
ACCV, Accelevation Holdings Corp., is under pressure after a sharp weekly decline, with borrow costs more than doubling in a single session even as the lending pool remains broadly available. The most striking…
VYLR closed the week at $72.99, down 6% from the prior Friday, as markets began the work of re-pricing a company whose shape changed permanently on October 1 when it spun off CTVA to shareholders. The lending market…
