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Trader NoteFIGS

FIGS Surges 33% After Earnings Beat; Shorts Caught Offside

FIGS delivered one of its biggest single-week price moves in years, jumping 33% to $14.26 after a Q2 earnings print that caught a heavily-shorted stock deeply wrong-footed — and the positioning data tells the whole…

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Trader NoteAVPT

AVPT Analysts Lift Targets After Earnings Dip

AvePoint enters the post-earnings week with analysts moving higher on the stock even as the price slipped — a divergence that captures the central tension around this application software name right now. The company…

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Trader NoteOSCR

Oscar Health CEO Sells $70M as Barclays Lifts Target

OSCR enters the week after earnings with an uncomfortable split: the stock fell 7.3% on its August 6 print, then bounced 5.1% Friday — but the more durable tension sits in the insider register, where CEO Mark Bertolini…

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Trader NoteFROG

JFrog Delivers — Now Analysts Race to Catch Up

FROG printed Q2 earnings on August 6 and jumped 12% on the week to $89.52, triggering the broadest single-day wave of target raises the stock has seen this cycle — and the question now is whether the Street was simply…

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Trader NoteU

Unity Surges 36% on the Week as Analysts Pile In After Q2 Beat

Unity Software has delivered one of its sharpest weekly gains in years, and the post-earnings reaction has triggered a cascade of analyst upgrades that reframes the debate entirely. The earnings print landed on August…

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Trader NoteCOGT

COGT Bulls Dominate Options as FDA Countdown Begins

Cogent Biosciences heads into its August 13 earnings report with options traders at their most bullish in a year and a meaningful short position that has started to retreat — a setup that makes the print feel secondary…

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Trader NoteFOUR

Shift4 Payments Crashes 22% on Earnings — Shorts Unmoved

FOUR enters the week after its worst single-day drop in recent memory, down 22% following its August 6 earnings print, with short sellers holding firm and the founder quietly buying stock at these levels. The earnings…

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Trader NoteGTM

ZoomInfo Shorts Hold Firm as Stock Surges 27%

GTM heads into the weekend with a striking dislocation: the stock has rallied 27% in a week, yet short sellers are barely flinching. Short interest in ZoomInfo is significant — 13.3% of free float, or roughly 41.4…

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Trader NoteRVMD

RVMD Analysts Race to Raise Targets After Q2 Beat

Revolution Medicines just delivered a week where the stock and the Street moved in the same direction at the same time — a relatively rare alignment that has the options market taking notice in its own telling way. The…

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Trader NoteDBX

Dropbox Shorts Rebuild Into a Post-Earnings Rally

Dropbox enters the week after its Q2 print with a curious split: the stock is up 7% on the week and 21% over the past month, yet short sellers have been quietly adding exposure throughout the same stretch. The…

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Trader NoteCAAP

CAAP Slides Into Earnings with Options Turning Cautious

Corporación América Airports heads into its August 19 earnings print with the stock down nearly 3% on the week and options traders noticeably more defensive than they were a month ago. The sharpest shift is in options.…

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Trader NoteDNA

TD Cowen Downgrades DNA as Shorts Rebuild and Peers Rally

Ginkgo Bioworks heads into the back half of 2026 with a fresh downgrade, rising short interest, and a peer group that largely left it behind this week. The analyst shift is the week's clearest development. TD Cowen's…

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