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Schrödinger heads into its November 4 earnings call with short sellers trimming positions, analysts lifting targets in a hurry, and options traders showing almost no interest in downside protection. The most striking…
Beam Therapeutics is a clinical-stage gene-editing company with a base-editing platform that has generated genuine clinical signal, yet a quarter of its free float remains borrowed short and its CEO has been selling…
Datadog heads into its November 4 earnings print with short positions quietly growing, insider sales on the books, and the stock sitting near all-time highs above $280. The lending market is the most relaxed it has…
10x Genomics hits its November 4 earnings date carrying three distinct tensions at once: a short position that has been cut nearly in half since late September, an analyst consensus that still lags the price, and an…
DT added just 0.2% over the past week while its closest software peers gained a median of 13.4%, yet short interest is now at its highest level in at least a year and analysts keep raising their targets. Short…
Gaotu Techedu heads into its November earnings with an unusual feature for a Chinese education stock: the CEO has been spending his own money buying shares. Between June 11 and June 18, CEO Chen Xiangdong made four…
CRWD closed at $268.02 on Tuesday, up 17.9% on the week, a move that has now carried the stock cleanly through the $247.25 consensus mean target it crossed on the way up last week. The short position has continued to…
PSN reported today after a 14% weekly rally, and the earnings release now becomes the test of whether bears who built positions into the strength were right to do so. The short-side story has been the clearest tension…
PINS has dropped 10.4% over the past week to $20.58, a steeper fall than all eight of its closest peers, and short sellers have used the decline to add to positions for the first time after a sustained exit from the…
AVTR is the quieter name in a sector week where peers moved sharply in both directions, but its short interest story has become harder to ignore. Among its closest correlated names, CRL gained nearly 14% on the week…
OneSpaWorld heads into its October 28 earnings release with short sellers rebuilding positions sharply over the past week, even as the stock adds 4% and options traders turn more bullish than usual. The most striking…
Twist Bioscience is the standout mover in synthetic biology this week, with its shares up 12% while most of its closest peers barely moved, and short interest has pulled back to its lowest level in over a year. Among…
Kodiak Sciences is a clinical-stage biotech developing treatments for blinding eye diseases, and after a 182% rally over the past month it now finds itself in an unusual position: short sellers are leaving, an activist…
HAWK enters the final stretch before its November 13 earnings with a striking split: the stock has bounced 14% in a week even as its Street coverage has spent months steadily marking down price targets, and a fresh…
XLC, the Communication Services Select Sector SPDR ETF, has reversed the covering trend flagged last week: short interest jumped back up even as the fund fell sharply, suggesting fresh bearish positioning rather than a…
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals delivered its sharpest single-day move in months on October 27, jumping 22% to $89.20 after reporting results, and the options market had been leaning that way well before the print. The…
AVGO has moved from a tentative floor to a genuine weekly gain, closing at $342.33 after rising 4% on Tuesday alone, yet the stock still trades at a 55% discount to the Street's mean price target of $530. The recovery…
Dropbox enters its November 5 earnings window with short sellers pulling back from recent highs, yet the position remains large enough to define how the stock trades. Short interest has fallen about 6% over the past…
Sensata Technologies reported Q3 results on October 27, and the stock's 4% single-day jump captures the central tension in the setup: a stock that has rebuilt short positions through October now watching those shorts…
ADT gained 1.2% over the past week while its closest correlated peers lost ground collectively, with the median peer down 1.3%. That divergence is modest but worth noting given how lopsided the ownership structure has…
