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TruBridge heads into Q1 earnings with shorts retreating fast

TBRG stock has nearly doubled from its April lows, yet the short position is quietly unwinding — making next week's earnings the moment where the revised story gets its first real test. The price move is the most…

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ATO Pulls Back After Earnings as Street Holds Neutral

Atmos Energy closed the week at $180.87, down 4.1% over five sessions — the worst weekly performance the natural gas utility has posted in recent months. The dip came directly on the heels of earnings, and it frames a…

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Akamai's earnings gap leaves shorts scrambling

Akamai Technologies posted its strongest single-day price move in years on May 7 and 8, and the story this week is about a 12% short position now sitting on a 42% paper loss. The earnings result was the catalyst.…

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AEMD: Short Interest Halved, but Clinical Overhang Looms

Aethlon Medical heads into the week of May 9 with a short base that has been cut in half over the past month — yet the stock is barely moving, leaving the company's next earnings event and clinical trial progress as…

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Ackman Backs His Own Fund With $19M

Pershing Square Inc. made its NYSE debut just days ago — and it arrived with a borrow market that is anything but calm. The most striking signal this week is not in the portfolio; it is in what Bill Ackman himself did…

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BLLN: Borrow-Locked and Heavily Shorted After 11% Pop

BillionToOne enters the week after a sharp 11% single-day rally on May 6, but short sellers are not backing down — making this stock one of the most pressured borrowing situations in healthcare right now. The lending…

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LIFE shorts rebuild as the stock rockets 77% in a month

LIFE has staged one of the sharper rallies in its short trading history — up 77% over the past month and 17% in this week alone, closing at $21.05 on Tuesday. The tension worth watching: short sellers are rebuilding…

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XZO CEO buys daily as Q1 results land

XZO heads into the post-earnings week with a single standout: its own CEO has been buying the stock every single trading day for nearly two weeks. CEO Paresh Patel — who is also Chairman and holds roughly 1.8% of the…

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WBI shorts rebuild as Q1 revenue misses and MS upgrades

WaterBridge Infrastructure LLC heads into the aftermath of its Q1 results carrying two conflicting signals: short sellers have been rebuilding aggressively over the past month, while a prominent Wall Street upgrade and…

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ABTC Misses on Earnings but Bitcoin Hoard Keeps Growing

American Bitcoin Corp. heads into the aftermath of its Q1 print carrying a rare combination: a clean operational story and a messy income statement. The headline numbers disappointed. Q1 EPS came in at -$0.08, against…

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PTRN beats and raises — options flash a warning

PTRN delivered a blowout Q1 print on May 6, raised full-year guidance well above consensus, and the stock still trades below where the Street set its targets two months ago. That gap is the story this week. The…

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MIAX insiders cash out ahead of a clean earnings beat

MIAX delivered a strong Q1 beat on May 6 — adjusted EPS of $0.42 against a $0.38 estimate, revenue of $128.6 million against $122.5 million — yet the most telling move of the week came the day before results landed. On…

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SMA shorts retreat as earnings land today

SmartStop Self Storage REIT heads into its Q1 2026 earnings — due today after the close — with short sellers continuing a decisive retreat, even as the Street has spent months trimming price targets across the…

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CEA Industries quietly unwinds its short position

BNC — CEA Industries — is mid-way through a quiet but consistent short-seller retreat, with the stock up 20% over the past month and the borrowing market growing noticeably looser. Short interest has been easing for…

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FrontView REIT beats Q1 and lifts guidance

FVR heads into tomorrow's conference call with a strong Q1 print in its pocket — and an analyst community that is only beginning to warm up to the stock. Q1 FFO of $0.34 per share came in 21% ahead of consensus…

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Ackman Bets Big on His Own Fund at IPO

PSUS launched on April 29 at a discount — and the story of the week is how aggressively the entire Pershing Square team moved to backstop it. The headline number is the insider buy. On April 30, the day after the IPO…

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Six Flags Heads Into Earnings With Bears in Charge

Six Flags Entertainment reports Q1 2026 results tomorrow with nearly one in five shares of its float sold short — and JP Morgan warning investors to stay away. Short interest is the defining tension heading into this…

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LandBridge Heads Into Earnings with Shorts at a 30-Day High

LB enters its Q1 2026 earnings call — scheduled for May 7 — with short sellers at their most aggressive in over a month and the stock quietly 4.5% lower than it was 30 days ago. Short interest is the clearest tension…

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