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Analysts Cool on Exelon After Q1 Miss

EXC heads into mid-May with a notable mismatch between where the Street is and where the stock trades. The analyst community has turned meaningfully more cautious over the past month. The wave started on April 17, when…

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Entergy shorts spike as analysts lift targets across the board

Entergy Corporation heads into the week with a striking divergence: short sellers have sharply rebuilt positions while every analyst who touched the stock in the past two weeks raised their price target. Short interest…

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OVV Analysts Lift Targets After Earnings — Market Shrugs

Ovintiv delivered its Q1 results this week and got a round of applause from the Street — but the stock fell 8% anyway, dragged lower by broader E&P sector pressure as oil prices slid. The analyst reaction to earnings…

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EOG Beats Estimates, But the Stock Still Slides

EOG Resources delivered a Q1 earnings beat last week, only to watch its stock fall nearly 5% across five trading days — a textbook case of sell-the-news in a sector where macro anxiety is doing most of the heavy…

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Analysts Chase DCO Higher After Earnings Beat

Ducommun comes out of its May 12 earnings print with the Street in an unusually constructive mood — and short sellers pressing harder at the same time. The analyst response to the quarter has been swift and uniformly…

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Deere Heads Into Q2 Earnings With Shorts Rebuilding

Deere & Company reports Q2 2026 results on May 21, and the most notable shift heading into the print is a quiet but persistent rebuild in short interest. Short positioning has climbed roughly 16% over the past month,…

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Analysts Keep Raising DAR Targets as Shorts Retreat

Darling Ingredients enters the back half of May with a rare combination: a wall of analyst upgrades pushing targets higher, and short sellers quietly reducing exposure at the fastest weekly pace in months. The most…

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Largo heads into earnings week under a going-concern cloud

LGO enters its May 19 earnings call carrying more weight than usual. Q1 results filed today showed a narrower loss year-on-year, but a mixed-shelf registration and a going-concern warning surfaced earlier this month —…

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CBSH: Analysts lift targets as shorts quietly retreat

Commerce Bancshares heads into the back half of May with short sellers trimming back and options traders leaning more bullish than usual — a quiet but consistent improvement in positioning against a stock that has…

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Citigroup heads into May results with Street raising targets

Citigroup enters its May 20 earnings event with analyst conviction running unusually high — nearly every major firm lifted its target after the Q1 print, and a second wave of raises arrived this week. The Street's…

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CAT insiders sell into earnings strength

Caterpillar enters mid-May with a cluster of insider selling at the top of the house — even as Wall Street races to lift targets after a blockbuster first-quarter print. The most striking feature of the past week is…

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SNDA shorts surge after earnings miss

Sonida Senior Living enters the post-earnings stretch with an unusual combination: shorts piling in at the fastest pace in months while the dominant shareholder doubles down and a bellwether analyst lifts his target to…

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Cabot Bounces Hard — but Analysts Stay Cautious

CBT has staged one of its sharpest recoveries in months, yet the Street is still not fully on board. The stock gained 7.1% on the week to close at $84.53, extending a 13.3% rally over the past month and lifting the…

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BorgWarner rallies hard as analysts lift targets post-earnings

BWA just posted its best week in months. The stock jumped 11% to $63.74, recovering ground lost since the start of the year and now up 40% year-to-date. The setup entering this week was a stock that had just reported…

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Boeing Rides a Rally but Options Signal Mounting Confidence

BA has had a strong week — up nearly 5.6% to $236.87 — yet the most striking feature of the current setup is not the short book or the borrow market. It is the options market's sharp tilt toward calls, arriving at…

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Autodesk heads into May earnings with analysts re-engaging

ADSK enters its May 28 earnings report with a notable divergence on the tape: options traders are the least defensive they've been in months, while a handful of Street analysts are quietly upgrading or reinstating…

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BofA U-Turn Lifts ARW as Short Sellers Exit

Arrow Electronics enters the week with its most significant analyst re-rating in years landing just as shorts are covering in size — a rare convergence that has pushed the stock up 8% on the week to $201.46. The…

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ADM shorts retreat as the Street lifts targets on Q1 beat

ADM has gained 16% in a month, with the Street finally moving in the same direction. The catalyst is clear: ADM reported Q1 results on May 5th and the stock rose 2.3% on the day, extending to a near 6% five-session…

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