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Booking Holdings enters the final day of September with its stock down 21% over the past month to $162.34, yet the short-selling community continues to reduce positions and the analyst consensus, though trimming…
BPOP heads into its October 23 Q3 results with the stock down 8% over the past month, insiders having sold heavily over the summer, and the two most recent analyst actions both pointing lower on price targets, even as…
PNFP enters its October 13 earnings window with a striking split between what analysts think and what insiders did: the Street has been upgrading, while a director was selling tens of millions of dollars of stock at…
PFE heads into its October 27 earnings date with a cluster of insider buying at the top, options traders turning less defensive, and short sellers with no meaningful conviction either way. The insider angle is the…
PEP heads into its October 8 earnings report with the analyst community now openly souring, options traders still defensive, and short sellers holding positions built in a rush last week. The most notable development…
Peoples Bancorp heads into its October 20 earnings date with short interest creeping higher, options positioning turning more cautious, and the Street broadly constructive but not rushing to upgrade. The positioning…
Pegasystems enters its October 21 earnings with a clear narrative: shorts are quietly rebuilding their positions, options traders are getting more defensive than at any point in months, and the Street has just…
PG&E closed Tuesday at $12.18, bouncing 1.9% on the day but still 5.4% lower on the week and 26.6% below where it began September, a month that has left the stock trading at a steep discount to every analyst model on…
ORCL closed Tuesday at $137.79, up 3.9% on the day, yet still down 7.6% on the week, leaving it trapped between a sharp intraday bounce and a broader trend that has now erased roughly 30% of its value year-to-date. The…
OSI Systems heads into its October 23 earnings report with short sellers quietly adding pressure and the stock nursing a 7% loss over the past month. Short interest is the central tension here. Bears have added roughly…
NVIDIA closed Tuesday at $227.21, essentially where it was a week ago, and the story this week is less about what the stock has done than about the growing spread between where it trades and where most analysts think…
Northrop Grumman closes out September with options traders pulling back from last week's peak defensiveness, even as the stock continues to drift lower toward its October 20 earnings date. The shift in options…
NKE reports after the close today with short interest near a multi-month peak, analysts still cutting targets, and the stock down 9.5% over the past month to $35.84. The short position has stabilised after a dramatic…
NEOG arrives at its October 1 earnings release in a peculiar spot: short interest has surged 44% over the past month, options traders are loading up on calls, and the stock just dropped 9% in a week from a price level…
Micron Technology goes into its Q4 fiscal 2026 earnings print this evening with the most one-sided pre-earnings positioning setup of the year. The clearest story in the data is what short sellers have already done.…
MSTR has pulled back 7.6% this week to $154.67, and the short sellers who pressed aggressively into the prior week's 29% rally have begun to unwind. The reversal in short positioning is the clearest development since…
Microsoft closes September with the stock slightly off its weekly peak, analyst targets still running well above the current price, and one fresh target raise from Piper Sandler arriving this morning to keep the bull…
MRK closes out September with the gap between analyst ambition and stock price narrowing, as a fresh target raise from Scotiabank lands on a day the shares finally crept back toward $149. The analyst story has been one…
McDonald's has shed 6.5% in a week and sits at $233.98, with the Street responding to the Q3 print by cutting targets across the board, even as most firms refuse to abandon their constructive ratings. The analyst…
Mattel enters the final stretch before its November 5 earnings with short sellers quietly trimming positions, options traders leaning more bullish than usual, and Goldman Sachs sitting at a Sell rating with a $12…
