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Leggett & Platt heads into its Q3 earnings release tomorrow with the heaviest short positioning in months and a stock that has shed nearly 9% this week alone. Short interest is the dominant story here. Bears have added…
Lamar Advertising heads into mid-August with shorts in full retreat and the Street nudging targets higher — yet the stock has still slipped 3.2% on the week to $153.82, creating a modest divergence worth watching. The…
Lam Research is drifting sideways at $311 while its closest peers are breaking out, and CEO Timothy Archer just sold $9 million of stock into the very bounce the previous note described. The insider angle is the…
Kopin Corporation has delivered exactly the scenario its options market was telegraphing: a sharp post-earnings rally that has left short sellers, who held 15.5% of the free float heading into the print, nursing losses…
KeyCorp enters mid-August as a modest underperformer within regional banking — down 1.8% on the week to $22.69, while closest peers Huntington Bancshares and PNC Financial closed the same period higher by 1.2% and flat…
KLA Corporation enters the second half of August with a striking internal contradiction: short sellers are rapidly unwinding positions, yet executives are selling stock at the fastest clip seen in recent months. The…
ZD enters mid-August with an unusual split: analysts are raising targets after a solid earnings print, yet short sellers are rebuilding positions at the fastest weekly pace in months. The short interest story is the…
ISRG is up 9% on the week to $401.23 — a strong recovery from its post-earnings lows — yet the analyst community has spent the past three weeks pulling back price targets, leaving the stock chasing a reset bar rather…
SNEX delivered one of the sharpest post-earnings selloffs of the season last week, and the week after has been defined by a rapid unwinding of the short positions that were built ahead of it. The scale of the short…
Intel is absorbing two simultaneous pressures this week: the continued gravitational pull of its $15 billion equity offering announced Sunday, and a stock that has now shed 11% over the past month from its June peak…
IEX enters the week with a fresh analyst catalyst pulling it in one direction and a month-long retreat in short positioning reinforcing the same view. The clearest event this week is Mizuho's move this morning. The…
IAMGOLD Corporation has had an exceptional week — a 21% gain in five sessions puts it among the strongest performers in the Canadian gold space, and the question now is what the positioning data says about who drove…
Home Depot enters its August 18 earnings report with the stock at $354.48 — up 1.8% on the week and 3.3% over the past month — while options traders have quietly shifted toward the most defensive positioning in nearly…
GS is drifting lower against a backdrop where the Street collectively sees 10% more value in the stock than the market is currently pricing, making the absence of a catalyst — not the absence of conviction — the…
Gilead Sciences enters the post-earnings lull with the stock holding near its highs and the most notable signal coming not from the options market or short sellers, but from the executive suite. CEO Daniel O'Day has…
GAP heads into its August 27 earnings date with the Street cutting targets and shorts rebuilding — a setup that amplifies the downside risk from a name that has already shown it can move violently on results. The…
Freeport-McMoRan presents a curious tension this week. Analysts are raising targets and copper demand is strong, yet every insider transaction in the past 90 days has been a sell — and the stock gave back 2.3% on…
Ford heads into mid-August with a clear disconnect: the Street just delivered one of its most coordinated upgrades in months, yet the stock slipped nearly 2% on the week to close at $13.98. The analyst surge is the…
First Industrial Realty Trust heads into August with a sharp, unexpected split between a broadly bullish analyst community and the most defensive options posture the stock has seen in months. The options story is the…
FICO enters the second week of August with short sellers visibly retreating, but the analyst community still reassessing what the stock is worth after last month's guidance shock. The clearest development this week is…
