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Marriott International enters its August 3 earnings date with a notable divergence: the Street has spent the past week lifting price targets in unison, while the stock itself is still nursing a 7% loss over the past…
Marsh & McLennan has cleared its Q2 earnings hurdle, but the analyst response to the print has opened a fresh divide on the stock — with one major firm stepping back just as bulls raise their targets. The most notable…
MFC enters its August 5 earnings window with shorts retreating, borrow conditions relaxed, and valuation multiples quietly grinding higher — the setup is constructive, but recent earnings history adds a note of…
Lockheed Martin reports Q2 results tomorrow morning with the stock sitting 17% below the consensus analyst target, a cost-to-borrow that just jumped 50% in a week, and a defensive options posture that has eased from…
Lincoln National enters its July 30 earnings date with an unusual setup: short sellers have been pulling back meaningfully while the analyst community has spent the past two weeks raising targets, yet the stock still…
LightPath Technologies ripped 22% higher on Tuesday, yet short interest has barely budged — a classic standoff between a stock that just moved hard and a short book large enough to signal the bears aren't ready to…
Kforce Inc. heads into its Q2 earnings release on July 27 with options positioning at its most bullish extreme in a year, short sellers retreating, and a landmark analyst target raise filed just today — a rare…
KeyCorp has just reported Q2 earnings, and the analyst response is constructive — but the Scotiabank overhang that framed last week's preview note has not gone away. The Street moved quickly after the print. Keefe,…
Johnson & Johnson is doing something unusual post-earnings: options traders have abandoned their defensive posture at a pace that has driven the put/call ratio to its lowest reading in a full year. The options signal…
Jacobs Solutions heads into its August 4 earnings date with the most notable shift this week coming not from short sellers but from the options market, where put demand has spiked to a level that stands well apart from…
JPMorgan Chase is back above $345 after a brief post-earnings consolidation, and the most interesting tension right now is not in the short book — it is in the gap between where the stock is trading and where a freshly…
IBM reports Q2 earnings after the close today, and the defining tension is a disconnect between an analyst community that spent the past week aggressively cutting targets and a short-seller base that has barely stirred…
Intel has answered the binary question the market spent two weeks debating: the Q2 print landed, the stock jumped 8.6% on July 21, and at $105.45 it has now clawed back above the pre-report close of $95.04 — yet the…
IDACORP heads into its July 30 earnings with a fresh analyst upgrade on one hand and an options market signalling the most defensive posture in months on the other. The most striking development this week came from the…
IDT Corporation enters the back half of July with a striking split personality: options traders have rarely been more bullish on the stock, while virtually every insider who has touched the register recently has been a…
HSY enters its July 30 earnings print with Wall Street steadily walking down estimates and the Milton Hershey School Trust quietly trimming its enormous stake — a combination that keeps the stock pinned near multi-year…
WELL heads into its July 27 earnings release having gained nearly 20% over the past month, with options positioning flipping sharply bullish and analysts racing to lift targets. The clearest signal this week is in the…
Healthcare Services Group heads into the second half with an unusual combination: options traders positioned more aggressively on the upside than at any point in recent memory, while short sellers remain a modest and…
HAS delivered its Q2 print on July 23, and the Street's reaction lands into a setup that was already clearly nervous: options traders had stacked on downside protection ahead of the report, and analysts had spent the…
Hancock Whitney Corporation delivered its Q2 results on July 21, and the Street wasted no time marking up its views — with analysts on both sides of the bull/bear divide nudging targets higher even as the stock gave…
