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SELLAS Life Sciences heads into its November 12 earnings release with one of the most heavily shorted floats in small-cap biotech, a borrow market that has tightened sharply this week, and options traders who have…
Short interest in BAND has climbed to its highest level in at least a year, reaching 18.6% of the free float, even as the stock rallied 10.2% over the past week to close at $49.27. That gap between rising bearish…
OrthoPediatrics Corp. has just passed through its Q3 earnings release, and the question now is whether Tuesday's print reshapes the story that dominated the pre-earnings notes, or whether the same tensions remain in…
Nutrien heads into its November 5 earnings report with short interest at its highest level in at least a year, even as the borrow market remains comfortably loose and the stock itself has barely moved on the…
Linde reports Q3 results tomorrow, October 29, with a put/call ratio running above its recent norm and short interest quietly climbing over the past month, a setup worth watching given the stock has fallen sharply…
BY reports Q3 results tomorrow afternoon with short interest at its highest level in over a year, options flipped sharply to call-dominated, and a director buying stock on the open market just two days ago. Short…
MTCH enters its November 2 earnings release with short sellers having added meaningfully to their position over the past month, even as the stock dropped 6.1% on the week to close at $43.69. Short interest climbed…
Baker Hughes has delivered the week's clearest turnaround story: a stock that spent two weeks lagging its peer group through elevated defensive options positioning has now caught up on the back of results day, with the…
SMPL heads into the back end of October with short sellers pressing harder on a stock that just posted its worst single-day reaction in months. Yesterday's earnings release triggered the most immediate tension: the…
Appian gained 12.2% over the past week while the median move across its closest software peers was just 1.9%. That divergence is the central tension heading into Q3 earnings on November 5. Among the peer group, Asana…
Zymeworks heads into its November 6 earnings print with short sellers quietly adding exposure and options traders growing noticeably more comfortable, a split in sentiment that makes the setup more interesting than…
OUSM, the ALPS O'Shares U.S. Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF, enters the final days of October with short positioning unwinding sharply, a notable shift for a fund that had seen elevated borrow demand through…
Vistra Corp. shed 2.4% over the past week to close at $146.66, underperforming its closest peers at a moment when the Street is converging on a shared view: the thesis remains intact, but the number has come…
Johnson Controls International delivered a strong fiscal fourth-quarter print on October 27, and the market responded: the stock gained 5.7% on the day and closed the week at $155.88, up 5.4% over five days. Short…
Fortive reported on October 28 against a backdrop that has shifted materially since the pre-earnings note published three days ago: short interest has pulled back, the stock has continued to climb, and the options…
SiteOne Landscape Supply posted a 6.7% gain over the past week, well ahead of its closest peer group, yet short interest simultaneously climbed to its highest level in at least a year, a divergence that makes this…
Short sellers have rebuilt their position in FWON.K to the highest level in at least a year. Short interest reached 4.4% of the free float on October 27, up 7% on the week and 26% over the past month, with roughly 9.9…
SPCX has stabilised around $148 this week, a narrow one-month trading range that sits more than 70% below where most analysts think the stock belongs, and short sellers have been quietly reducing exposure for the past…
Hubbell Incorporated reported third-quarter results on October 27 and the market's reaction was immediate: shares fell 5.5% on the day to $434.28, erasing the relative resilience that made the stock look steady heading…
TEAM arrives at its October 29 earnings report with short sellers adding positions at the fastest weekly pace in over a month, even as the analyst community continues to raise price targets almost in unison. Short…
