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QQQI, the NEOS Nasdaq-100 High Income ETF, has seen an extraordinary rebuild in short positioning this week, even as borrowing costs fall and options traders skew defensively, a combination that tells a layered story…
Banc of California reported Q3 results on October 28, and with the number now on the table, the question shifts from how much hedging was in place to whether the print changes anything for the bears who spent the past…
KVYO carries one of the more layered ownership pictures in mid-cap software right now, with nearly 15% of its free float sold short, an activist 13D filer controlling more than a fifth of the company, and Goldman Sachs…
AESI enters its November 2 earnings print in a difficult spot: short interest remains near historic highs, the stock has lost more than a quarter of its value in a month, and analysts are still cutting targets even as…
Lithium Americas Corp. heads into its November 13 earnings with short interest at a one-month high, borrow availability tight, and an 85% probability of being dropped from the S&P/TSX Composite in December. The short…
Diebold Nixdorf reported Q3 results on October 28 and the stock reacted with a 3.1% decline, now trading at $66.68, leaving the shares down 1.7% on the week despite a 6.3% gain over the past month. Short interest has…
SharkNinja enters its November 4 earnings week with analysts raising price targets, short sellers continuing a slow retreat, and retail attention running well above its recent norm. The most notable development this…
Talen Energy gained 2.4% on Tuesday to close at $345.73, a partial recovery that does little to mask the more striking data underneath: short interest climbed 62% over the past five days, a move 3.8 standard deviations…
GE HealthCare Technologies reports Q3 results on Thursday, October 30, with the stock trading at $71.11 after a 1.3% gain on the week, and two separate data points flagging unusual activity in the run-up: short…
FTAI Aviation reports Q3 results tomorrow with short interest holding near 6% of the free float and options traders tilting more bullish than usual, even as the stock has lagged its sector peers sharply over the past…
FirstSun Capital Bancorp reported Q3 results yesterday and the stock barely flinched, leaving short sellers with a position that has grown dramatically over the past month but has yet to pay off. The earnings reaction…
Short interest in D-Wave Quantum has reached 23.0% of the free float, up 10.0% in a single week. That weekly build is 1.7 standard deviations above the company's own typical pace of change, and the position is now at…
NuScale Power has bounced 8% in a single session to $5.70, but the week's recovery masks a sharper story: short sellers added heavily even as the stock was being beaten down, and next week's earnings arrive with the…
HF Sinclair reported third-quarter results Tuesday and the stock fell hard, closing at $114.21, a drop of nearly 9% on the day and 8.9% for the week, even as the broader refining complex sold off in tandem. The sector…
Short interest in OMDA has climbed to 14.5% of free float, its highest level in at least a year, rising 19% in a single week and 35% over the past month, while the stock slipped 1.7% to $19.01 against a median gain of…
IREN added 9.3% to its short position this week, pushing bears to 34.7% of the free float, the heaviest short load on record in ORTEX's daily estimate series, arriving with earnings due November 5 and a probable MSCI…
FRSH gained just 0.3% over the past week, lagging a peer median of 2.1%, with short interest climbing 23% over the past month even as the stock recovered from October lows. Short sellers have been rebuilding…
Rocket Lab closed Tuesday at $58.31, up 14.6% on the week, a sharp reversal from the 21% slide that defined the prior note. The recovery puts the stock back above $50 but still leaves it down 21% over the past month,…
Robinhood Markets saw one of its sharpest weekly reductions in short interest on record, a move more than 2.8 standard deviations below its typical weekly change, even as the stock itself fell 3.7% on the week to…
IonQ is a quantum computing company with a $14 billion market cap, a Q3 earnings date of November 4, and a short position that just grew by 16% in a single week. The stock closed at $32.95 on October 27, up 7% on the…
