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Canadian Pacific Kansas City heads into its October 27 earnings report with an unusual combination: short interest has surged sharply over the past week while the borrow market remains deeply liquid, leaving the setup…
Canadian National Railway heads into its October 30 Q3 results with the stock down modestly, short positions rebuilding, and a well-known activist still on the register. The most notable development in positioning this…
CSX reports Q3 results on October 13, and the most striking feature of this week's setup is how little appetite there is to bet against it. The borrow market tells a story of almost complete indifference from short…
BorgWarner heads into its October 29 earnings with a high-profile analyst upgrade, falling short interest, and options markets turning decisively bullish, all at the same time. The most important development this week…
Black Hills Corporation heads into its November 4 earnings date with short interest at a multi-month high and the analyst community turning more constructive, a tension worth watching closely. Short interest is the…
W. R. Berkley Corporation heads into its October 19 earnings release with the Street pulling targets lower and a lending market so loose it barely registers as a factor. The most active story this week is the analyst…
Becton, Dickinson heads into November earnings with an unusual split: short sellers have been reducing exposure at pace, while the Street's freshest voice just arrived with a bearish initiation. Barclays kicked off…
AutoNation heads into its October 22 earnings report with the stock down 25% over the past month, analysts cutting targets across the board, and short interest at its highest level in six weeks. The analyst…
ABG enters its October 27 earnings with a stark gap between where analysts set their targets just weeks ago and where the stock is trading today. The most striking development this week is a wave of target-price cuts…
Dauch Corporation enters the final stretch of Q3 reporting season with a contradictory setup: short sellers remain heavily dug in at 15.3% of the free float, yet the stock just posted a 10% weekly gain to $5.85, its…
Air Products and Chemicals heads into its November 4 earnings date with analysts trimming targets and short interest quietly rebuilding from five-week lows, even as the stock itself holds near flat on the week. The…
Oil war risk is the trade of the moment. Options traders are loading bearish positions into airline stocks, treating the sector as a direct hedge on the Iran conflict. American Airlines carries the heaviest short…
Options traders are loading up on bearish positions in airline stocks. They are treating the sector as a proxy for oil risk amid the Iran conflict. Reports Wednesday described the trade bluntly: a bet the war does not…
The Q3 earnings season fires up this week. Three major sectors report within days of each other, giving investors their first read on the health of the US consumer and financial system. LEVI kicks things off today. The…
Micron Technology (MU) received the most dramatic target price revision of the day. DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria raised his target to $3,000 from $2,100, a 43% increase. The move reflects growing confidence in…
Uber President and COO Andrew MacDonald filed to disclose a combined $5.3 million open-market purchase of Uber shares on September 4, with the filings reported on September 8. MacDonald bought 70,000 shares across two…
Short sellers turned the most aggressive on MMED this week. The medical device maker's short interest hit 91% of free float. That is up 16.5 percentage points in just seven days. Borrow costs stand at 35.6% and…
Robinhood Markets enters its Q3 earnings stretch with analysts turning visibly more bullish, even as the stock has shed 8% over the past month to $112. The analyst story is the sharpest development this week. Barclays…
YOU heads into its November earnings with a notable split: short sellers have been trimming positions over the past week, yet the stock has lagged a broadly stronger software peer group, and options traders have…
ATAT enters October with an unusual split: a fresh bullish analyst initiation landed this week just as short sellers have been quietly rebuilding positions over the past month. The most newsworthy development is HSBC's…
