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T1 Energy has cleared its August 12 earnings event with the stock up 40% on the week, yet the short base that built into the print shows few signs of retreating. The borrow picture has loosened marginally but remains…
SHC enters the back half of August with a quiet but meaningful shift in tone: a strong earnings reaction last week has pulled short sellers back and prompted a wave of analyst target upgrades, yet the stock still…
Rocket Companies emerges from its August 6 earnings print with short sellers refusing to budge and the entire analyst community reaching for the red pen — a rare alignment of persistent bearish positioning and Street…
Praxis Precision Medicines delivered the week's most striking biotech setup: a 17% rally on the back of a positive earnings reaction, yet short sellers — who hold nearly 16% of the float — have barely moved. The most…
10x Genomics is having its best month in years — up 38% in July alone — and the shorts are running for the exits. The most striking development this week is the speed of the short-interest unwind. Short interest has…
REAL enters the post-earnings week in an unusual position: short sellers are slowly walking back positions while options traders have just turned more defensive than they've been all year. The options shift is the…
Levi Strauss heads into August with a quiet but persistent tension: short sellers are rebuilding positions just as insiders — including the CFO — have been trimming in size. The insider picture is the most striking…
LYFT surged nearly 6% on August 7 following a stronger-than-expected Q2 print — and the interesting tension is that shorts barely moved. Short interest ticked up about 1.5% on the week to 21.9% of free float, a level…
Resideo Technologies just posted one of the ugliest single-week declines in its peer group — down 24% to $26.08 — while comparable building products names moved sharply higher. The gap between REZI and its peers this…
Keurig Dr Pepper heads into the back half of 2026 with an unusual split: short sellers are quietly adding to positions while the analyst community has spent the past two weeks raising targets and cheering the stock…
SRRK enters the post-earnings stretch with a striking shift in how options traders are positioned — running notably more bullish than at any point in the past several months. The clearest signal this week is the…
Victory Capital Holdings delivered the earnings beat options traders had positioned for, and the Street has spent Friday morning lifting targets to catch up with a share price that has moved faster than consensus…
ZLAB has had a remarkable week, posting a 27.6% gain to $23.32 after first-in-human data for ZL-1310 in advanced small cell lung cancer delivered a positive surprise that caught short sellers badly positioned. The…
Viridian Therapeutics just delivered one of its sharpest weekly moves of the year, gaining 25% to close at $23.59 — and the tension now is whether nearly 19% of the float sitting short will fuel more covering, or…
ASH enters the second week of August with an unusual tension: short sellers are quietly unwinding a meaningful position even as the stock trades at a premium to most Street targets — and options traders are more…
Twilio delivered a blowout quarter, and the stock's 24.9% single-day gap on August 7 instantly made every pre-earnings analyst target look stale. The analyst response has been swift and broad. More than nine firms…
US Foods Holding Corp. delivered a quarter strong enough to put the Street on its heels — six analysts lifted price targets on the same morning, and the stock added 8.3% on August 6 before extending to close at $108.88…
FWON.K enters the back half of its racing calendar with the stock at fresh highs and the analyst community playing catch-up — the most interesting tension this week is how quickly the Street has had to revise its math…
TEAM enters the post-earnings phase of its cycle having delivered one of the biggest single-day moves in recent memory — the stock jumped 31% on August 6 following results, and extended gains through the week to close…
Planet Fitness just delivered an earnings-day drop that crystallised a year of frustration — and the week that followed has been equally brutal, with the stock down 10.6% to $50.01 and nearly 50% below where it started…
