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Unisys Corporation is riding back-to-back catalysts into its next earnings in a way that leaves short sellers caught on the wrong side of a 62% one-month rally. The story starts with Q1 numbers. Unisys beat EPS…
U.S. Physical Therapy enters the week after its most punishing earnings reaction in recent memory — a 19.5% single-day collapse following Q1 results on May 7 — with the stock now trading at $60.85, down 20% over the…
Coherent Corp. heads into mid-May with one of the sharpest short covering moves of the past month, a wave of post-earnings analyst upgrades, and a stock that has climbed 21% in a single month — creating a meaningful…
3D Systems enters Thursday's earnings call with nearly a third of its float sold short and the stock up 62% in a month — a combustible combination that turned explosive this week. The stock closed at $3.11 on Tuesday,…
Texas Instruments enters the back half of May with a striking tension: a stock that has surged 37% in a month while nearly every insider with access to a sell button has used it. The insider picture is the clearest…
Target Corporation enters its Q1 2026 earnings — scheduled for May 20 — with a stock down 5.4% on the week, a cluster of upward analyst revisions, and options traders quietly building more defensive positioning than…
Helios Technologies posted its sharpest single-day gain of the year on Tuesday. The stock closed at $77.57, up 14% on the day and 14.4% on the week, after the industrial hydraulics and electronics company delivered an…
Starbucks heads into the week with its post-earnings rally running out of momentum — and options traders now the most defensively positioned they have been all year. The options market is flashing the clearest warning…
Sleep Number is a stock in freefall — a Q1 earnings miss of historic proportions just knocked the stock down 22% in a single session to $1.90, and short sellers were already loaded up before the print. The earnings…
SCHW heads into Thursday's earnings call with the most persistent insider selling story of the year — and a market that has turned notably less defensive than it was just weeks ago. Charles Schwab, the firm's founder…
Sanmina Corporation heads into mid-May with a striking tension between a blistering 60% one-month price run and a wave of insider selling that accelerated at the top. The standout story this week is what insiders are…
Rockwell Automation enters the week after its strongest single-day earnings reaction in recent memory — but the Street's response is telling a more complicated story. The Q2 earnings print on May 5 sent the stock up…
Rigel Pharmaceuticals heads into its May 14 earnings print with a freshly struck drug deal, a 12% pop on the session, and 21% of the float still held short. The catalyst was a licensing agreement with Arvinas and…
Richardson Electronics enters the week with short sellers in retreat and a fresh strategic partnership grabbing the spotlight. Short interest has fallen sharply over the past month. At 2.6% of the free float today, it…
CenterPoint Energy heads into this mid-May week with a quiet but telling divergence: short sellers have been trimming positions while the options market tilts more bullish than it has been in months — yet the stock has…
QUALCOMM heads into mid-May having delivered one of its most explosive earnings reactions in years — and the data now shows short sellers scrambling to reduce exposure into a stock up more than 60% over the past…
Prudential Financial enters the back half of May trading above the Street's consensus target — a notable divergence that sets up an interesting tension between a stock that has recovered and analysts who still mostly…
Power Corporation of Canada reported Q1 2026 net earnings of $820 million on Tuesday — a 19% jump year on year — and the stock answered with a 2.1% gain on the day to close at CAD $80.09. The week's broader backdrop is…
Plug Power heads into the week of May 11 with an unusual alignment: a wave of analyst target upgrades landing just days after a strong post-earnings pop — while short sellers, sitting on one of the most heavily-shorted…
Pfizer heads into the back half of May with short interest at its highest level in six weeks, options sentiment tilting more defensive, and the Street divided on where the stock goes from a post-earnings $25.87. The…
