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Buda Juice posts Q1 beat as shorts retreat

BUDA is heading into the back half of May with momentum on two fronts: a Q1 earnings beat delivered this week and a steady retreat in short positioning over the past six weeks. Shorts have been covering since early…

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VIA Drops 17% on Earnings Beat — Guidance Fails to Impress

Via Transportation delivered a Q1 earnings beat on Tuesday and raised its full-year sales guidance — yet the stock fell 17% on the day and finished the week down nearly 15% to $14.12. That gap between fundamental…

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XRP ETF shorts spike as borrow costs bite

The XRP Bitwise XRP ETF enters mid-May with a striking contradiction: short sellers doubled their position overnight, yet the broader lending market has plenty of room left to run. Short interest is the most volatile…

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Analysts Trim Targets After BRCB Misses on Q1

BRCB heads into the back half of May carrying the weight of a fresh earnings miss, a shrinking valuation, and a wall of analyst target cuts — yet every firm that picked up the knife kept its Buy or Outperform…

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Q Surges 15% After Q1 Blowout — Analysts Race to Catch Up

Q heads into the second half of May with fresh momentum and a Wall Street upgrade cycle that is still in motion. The stock added 9.9% on Tuesday alone and is up nearly 15% for the week, after reporting Q1 earnings that…

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AMBQ earnings beat drives 64% surge, shorts retreat

Ambiq Micro just posted its most explosive week since listing, and the catalyst was a Q1 earnings report that blew through every estimate on the Street. The numbers landed May 12 and they were unambiguous. Adjusted EPS…

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WW Activist Emerges Into a Short-Heavy Wreck

WW International heads into the week with an activist on its doorstep and shorts still deeply embedded after last week's earnings punishment. The timing of the Galloway Capital Partners move is striking. The firm filed…

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RAL Earnings Spark Analyst Reset

Ralliant Corporation heads into the post-earnings week with a sharply re-rated stock and a consensus still catching up to the new reality. Q1 results dropped on May 12 and they were unambiguous. Adjusted EPS of $0.57…

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AII Beats Estimates, but the Street Trims Targets

American Integrity Insurance Group just delivered a Q1 earnings beat — then watched its analyst targets come down anyway. The company reported Q1 adjusted EPS of $1.03, clearing the $0.98 consensus, with revenue of…

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CRCL's Debut Earnings Beat Runs Into a Wall of Insider Selling

CRCL posted its first quarterly results as a public company this week and beat on EPS — then promptly fell 6% the next session. The tension is simple. Circle Internet Group's Q1 print was genuinely strong. EPS of $0.21…

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CMDB beats Q1 estimates as shorts quietly rebuild

Costamare Bulkers Holdings Limited filed its Q1 2026 results this morning — and the headline beat tells only half the story heading into this week. Revenue came in at $111.5 million with net income of $9.9 million, a…

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SATL Shorts Retreat After Q1 Earnings Miss

Satellogic entered earnings week carrying nearly 7.6% of its free float short — meaningful for a small-cap space-tech name — and then delivered a Q1 result that missed EPS estimates by $0.84. The stock dropped 13% on…

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Fold Holdings Misses Hard, Cantor Trims Target

FLD just reported the kind of print that makes analysts reach for the red pen. Q1 2026 EPS came in at -$0.59 against a -$0.15 estimate. Revenue of $5.6 million missed the $10 million consensus by nearly half. Cantor…

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OSRH shorts retreat as borrow costs ease from record highs

OSR Holdings heads into its May 20 earnings with the most dramatic two-week unwind in borrow activity seen all year — and the stock is up 24% on the week as a result. The standout story this week is not where short…

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