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Caterpillar heads into its August 4 earnings print with a fresh downgrade on the tape, a stock down 16% in a month, and options traders quietly less defensive than the price action might suggest. The week's defining…
Capitol Federal Financial goes into its August 4 earnings report with options traders notably less defensive than they have been all year, even as short sellers quietly add to positions. The clearest signal this week…
CMS Energy has just posted Q2 results — and the week's most striking development is how quickly short sellers unwound a large position heading into the print, even as options traders reached their most defensive…
Brown & Brown delivered a strong Q2 beat on July 28, sending the stock up nearly 9% on the day and 10.5% on the week to $73.65 — and triggering a wave of analyst target increases that arrived faster than the short…
Bristol-Myers Squibb reports Q2 earnings on July 30 with the stock at $63.60 and options traders notably relaxed — yet short interest has just posted its sharpest weekly jump in months, creating a quiet tension under…
Boston Scientific has just reported Q2 earnings today — and the stock's 6.6% rally on the week tells only part of the story, because analysts are still cutting targets even as they hold their Buy ratings. The analyst…
BorgWarner reports Q2 results on July 30 with the short side now rebuilding sharply — a direct reversal of the covering trend described just two days ago — while options traders remain near their most defensive stance…
BA has now reported Q2 earnings, and the market's verdict is unambiguous: the stock closed at $221.56, up nearly 5% on the day and 8% on the week, completing a full reversal from the pressure that defined the…
Bank of America heads into the final days of July with the options alarm that defined last week quietly fading — and the Street still reluctant to get off the accelerator on price targets. The most notable shift from…
ADP delivered its July 29 earnings and the market rewarded it: the stock closed at $264.17, up 3.6% on the day and 7.3% on the week, extending what has become an 18% gain over the past month. The earnings-day move is…
Last week's tentative recovery in Applied Materials has been erased — the stock fell another 7.8% Tuesday to close at $476.46, extending its monthly loss to 24% and reopening the question of where the floor is. The…
AAPL reports Q3 results tonight at $340.08 — up 3.8% on the week and nearly 20% over the past month — with the stock now trading roughly $18 above the Street's consensus mean target of $321.66 and the defensive…
Amphenol has reported its Q2 results — the print the last note was previewing — and the stock has sold off sharply, falling 9% on the week to $143.85, leaving a wide and now very visible gap between where the stock…
AMGN heads into its August 4 earnings report with a 7% week-on-week rally, a sharp drop in short interest, and options traders moving cautiously more defensive — a setup where the longs are winning but the hedgers are…
AWR heads into its August 4 earnings with options traders the most defensively positioned they have been all year. The clearest signal is in the put/call ratio. It has climbed to 1.32, well above its 20-day average of…
AMZN has moved past Thursday's Q2 release with the pre-earnings tension now resolved — the question is whether the stock's position at $230.86, still well below the Street's consensus target, marks a base or simply a…
AMD dropped 8.1% on Tuesday and closed the week at $454.62 — down 16.5% in five sessions — arriving at next Tuesday's Q2 print in a dramatically different position than the one described in Monday's note, when the…
AAON heads into its August 6 earnings call in a very different shape than it exited the last one — down 26% over the past month, with short sellers quietly adding exposure and the stock testing levels well below where…
Corning reported its Q2 results on July 28, the event the market had been waiting for after a brutal month-long slide, and the critical question now shifts from whether numbers could arrest the decline to whether…
IQV reported Q2 results on July 28 and the stock responded with a 2.5% gain on the day, closing at $213.22 — up 4.6% on the week and nearly 12% over the past month. The question that dominated pre-earnings notes —…
