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SERV shorts hold firm after a beat-and-drop earnings week

Serve Robotics heads into the back half of May carrying a paradox: Q1 results beat estimates, the company held full-year guidance, yet the stock still fell more than 8% on the day of the print and has shed another 4%…

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CGTL: 54% Single-Day Crash Triggers Short-Seller Surge

Creative Global Technology Holdings Limited enters the back half of May in the wreckage of its worst single session on record — a 54% price collapse on May 12 that reset the entire short-interest narrative in one…

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KGS Shorts Exit as Post-Earnings Rally Resets the Board

Kodiak Gas Services just delivered the sort of earnings beat that forces short sellers to rethink their thesis. The stock jumped nearly 8% on May 11 after first-quarter results, capping a month that now shows a 24%…

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ORIS: Borrow Costs Ease but Stock Continues to Slide

Oriental Rise Holdings Limited heads into its May 14 earnings release down sharply, with short sellers trimming positions even as the stock loses ground — a split signal worth watching closely. The most striking…

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F&G Annuities Caught Between a Strong Month and a Wobbly Week

F&G enters the stretch before its June 24 earnings call having delivered a remarkable 17% one-month rally — only to give back nearly 5% this week, leaving traders weighing whether the recent recovery is already spent…

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Trader NoteZVSA

ZyVersa heads into Q1 report with rising short score

ZVSA heads into its May 19 Q1 earnings release with its ORTEX short score climbing steadily all week — even as short interest itself quietly trims back from a month ago. The short score is the most interesting signal…

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Trader NoteRPGL

RPGL: A 74% Collapse Meets a 100x Short Interest Build

RPGL's defining story this week is the violent disconnect between a stock in freefall and a borrow market that has turned ferociously expensive — with short sellers doubling down even as the stock loses three-quarters…

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NVDL shorts retreat as the leveraged NVDA trade surges

NVDL, the GraniteShares 2x Long NVDA Daily ETF, has delivered a 25.6% gain in a single week — and the shorts who stayed are sitting on pain. Short sellers have been heading for the exit. Estimated short shares dropped…

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ADPV Borrow Cost Eases as Short Activity Spikes

The ADPV Adaptiv Select ETF enters mid-May with a striking divergence: short interest has jumped sharply this month, yet the borrow market has quietly loosened from its earlier highs. The headline number is dramatic on…

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Trader NoteCWD

CWD Shorts Surge Into Earnings Miss

CaliberCos heads into the aftermath of its Q1 2026 report with short interest at a five-week high, a meaningful earnings miss already on the tape, and a guidance affirmation that lands well below Street estimates. The…

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ICU Earnings Eve: Short Interest Doubles, Borrow Tightens

SeaStar Medical Holding Corporation heads into its Q1 2026 earnings report — due after the close on May 14 — with short sellers sharply rebuilding positions and the lending market tightening at an accelerating…

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ALMU: Earnings miss clouds a 152% month

Aeluma heads into the post-earnings session with a revenue miss and a guidance cut — the headline tension being that a stock up 152% in a month just delivered Q3 results that disappointed on both top line and forward…

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SNAL beats Q1, but shorts just staged a dramatic exit

Snail, Inc. delivered one of its cleanest quarterly beats in recent memory — and the short-selling community spent the week voting with its feet. The numbers that hit after the close on May 13 told a sharp story. Q1…

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Trader NoteBRNX

BNRG: Borrow Costs Bite as Price Slides 18%

BNRG has shed nearly a fifth of its value in a month — and the cost to borrow shares hasn't let up once. The most telling feature of the current setup is the borrow market. Cost to borrow has climbed to around 32–34%…

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GELS shorts rebuild as price tests new lows

Gelteq Limited is a micro-cap pharma stock in a difficult place this week: the price has fallen 23% in five days to $0.43, and short interest has simultaneously snapped back toward the highs it set in early April,…

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ACON insiders buy into earnings as shorts double in six weeks

ACON heads into its Q1 results — just reported after the close on May 13 — with a striking contrast: management buying stock with both hands while short sellers have been aggressively rebuilding positions over the past…

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Trader NoteAMZE

AMZE shorts triple in a week as borrow dries up

Amaze Holdings enters the week of May 11 in a state of acute short-side pressure — short interest has exploded from near-zero to nearly a fifth of the free float in just ten days, while the borrow market has tightened…

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