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Rocket Companies enters its July 30 earnings report with short sellers accelerating their bets at a pace not seen in months, even as the options market and the borrow pool both remain remarkably calm about what's…
Procore Technologies heads into its Q2 earnings release with options markets firmly in the bulls' camp, while short sellers have simultaneously pushed positioning to its highest level in over a month — a tension that…
BNTX heads into its August 4 earnings report with options sentiment shifting more constructive than it has been in months, even as the stock sits roughly flat on the week at $92.45. The clearest change in positioning…
GFL Environmental heads into its Q2 earnings print tomorrow with short sellers rebuilding positions at a pace that stands out against an otherwise steady stock. The short interest story is the most interesting thing…
CLVT enters the back half of July with its most interesting tension in months: a sharp 9% short-covering wave that has coincided — or collided — with a 13% price recovery, raising the question of whether bears are…
Adaptive Biotechnologies enters its Thursday earnings release with a striking internal contradiction: the stock has rallied more than 38% year-to-date, yet the company's own founder has been selling aggressively all…
Antero Midstream reported Q2 results on July 29, and the week's question has shifted from anticipation to verdict: did management's heavy spring selling look prescient or premature? The backdrop heading into the print…
TOST heads into its August 4 earnings report with short sellers in full retreat — yet the stock's own options market is sending a notably bullish counter-signal that makes the setup genuinely interesting. The short…
PennyMac Financial Services heads into the back half of July with a quietly building short position, a Barclays downgrade still fresh, and options markets nudging more cautious — all while the stock has clawed back…
Comstock Resources enters its July 30 earnings call carrying one of the more charged setups in the natural gas E&P space — short interest has quietly rebuilt to a near-term high, the stock is down 13% in a month, and…
Bloom Energy enters its July 30 earnings release having already delivered the worst of the news — a 34% monthly decline to $166.84 — and with the Street scrambling to reprice on the morning after a bruising…
TENB dropped 8% on the week to $31.37 after reporting Q2 results on July 28, widening the fault line between bulls and bears that was already the defining feature of this setup. The Street's reaction after the print…
SONO heads into its August 5 earnings report with shorts retreating sharply and the stock up 14% on the week — but the pace of that short covering is the story worth watching. Short interest has collapsed by 26% in the…
KNSA delivered a sharp earnings-driven re-rating this week, with the stock jumping 25% in a single session to $79.44 — a move that left most analyst price targets instantly stale and forced a wave of same-day…
Broadcom heads into the final days of July having done something its semiconductor peers conspicuously failed to do this week — hold its ground. The price story is modest but meaningful in context. AVGO closed Tuesday…
ST enters the new week having done something its peer group singularly failed to do — hold its ground. The stock closed at $46.73, up a half-percent on the week, while the broader electrical-components cohort was being…
Industrial Logistics Properties Trust reports tomorrow with an unusual setup: short sellers have been cutting positions aggressively while options traders lean bullish — and a fresh quarterly print lands in the middle…
ADT heads into Wednesday's earnings print with short sellers adding positions at their fastest weekly pace in months and options traders quietly shifting toward protection. The sharpest move this week is in short…
VICI Properties has just crossed its July 29 earnings date with the stock up nearly 2% on the week — a modest but meaningful recovery after a month that had pushed it lower, with shorts having unwound and options…
Merchants Bancorp has just cleared its Q2 earnings hurdle, and the immediate read from the Street is cautious respect rather than conviction — Piper Sandler maintained its Overweight rating this morning but cut its…
