Trader notes, earnings previews, Confluences, weekly digests and roundups — long-form analysis grounded in ORTEX short interest, options flow and analyst data.
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Similarweb heads into its August 12 earnings print with analyst sentiment shifting higher and the stock trading at its best level in months — yet the Street's consensus target still sits below the current price. The…
Jackson Financial delivered a 9.3% single-day gain on August 3 after its Q2 print, and the Street responded almost immediately — but the shorts have barely flinched. The post-earnings analyst response confirms the…
Latham Group enters August with a notable insider vote of confidence — but the stock is still down 7% over the past month, and the Street remains divided on whether the pool manufacturer's recovery thesis has legs. The…
COMP has just cleared its August 4 earnings release, and the immediate reaction from the Street is a wave of target upgrades — yet the options market remains more defensive than it has been all year. The analyst…
Coinbase Global has delivered its Q2 numbers, they disappointed enough to send the stock down nearly 9% on the day, and the week's most telling development is what happened next: shorts rebuilt rather than covered, and…
UWM Holdings heads into its August 6 earnings release with nearly 30% of its float sold short, options traders suddenly more defensive, and analysts still pointing to a stock worth twice the current price — a setup…
Shoals Technologies Group delivered its Q2 earnings on August 4 and promptly handed back most of the week's gain — the stock fell 1.6% on results day to close at $9.22, even as shorts pulled back and analysts lifted…
DoorDash has just reported its August 5 results with the stock at $202, up 3.5% on the week, and the short-side retreat that defined the pre-earnings setup now confirmed by the actual print. The short-covering story is…
Upstart Holdings reported Q2 results on August 4, and the stock's 9% weekly gain has done nothing to dislodge the bears — short interest has barely budged, analysts are raising targets, and the ORTEX short score is…
Advantage Solutions enters August with its most interesting tension sitting not in the short book or the options market, but in the insider register — where the CEO was buying stock at a 17% discount to where it trades…
MediaAlpha has dropped 10% this week to $12.38 — a sharp reversal from the pre-earnings optimism captured in last week's notes, with the stock now trading below most of the freshly raised analyst targets. The analyst…
OPEN reported Q2 results after the close on August 4, and the week's central tension is a familiar one: one of the heaviest short positions in US real estate tech has barely shifted, even as the stock clawed back 4.6%…
The central question facing Palantir Technologies this week is not whether the Q2 print was strong — it clearly was — but whether the analyst community and remaining short sellers can catch up to a stock that moved 32%…
QQQM is caught in an unusual tension this week: the ETF surged 7.2% in five sessions to $298.03, yet short interest nearly doubled over the same period — the kind of divergence that rarely appears on a passive index…
CRSR heads into its August 6 earnings release with a notable gap between a surging stock price and a Street that has only just started catching up. The clearest signal this week is analyst momentum. Wedbush raised its…
XPeng heads into its August 24 earnings report with short sellers quietly retreating, borrow conditions loosening, and a stock that has shed 8% over the past month to $12.05 — a setup where the lending market and price…
PPLI delivered a results-day pop that forced the Street's hand — the stock closed Tuesday up 10.4% to $46.43, and analysts moved targets higher almost in lockstep the following morning. The analyst response was…
DraftKings reports Q2 results tomorrow after the close, entering the print with a stock down 9% over the past month, a short base that has quietly unwound, and analyst targets sitting well above where shares trade…
Accel Entertainment closed its August 4 earnings print at $12.16 — down 1.5% on the week but up 1.1% on the day — as the Street moved quickly to reaffirm its view on the stock. The most immediate read-through from…
Schrödinger, Inc. just delivered its Q2 results on August 5, and the stock's 2.4% bounce on the day marks the first meaningful reprieve in a difficult month — the question now is whether bears, who held a substantial…
