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Why this matters: MOD dropped 11.6% in a single session. Short sellers added positions into the weakness. Yet the options market is pointing the other way — call buying has surged to levels rarely seen in the past…
A rare split signal has emerged on VIS. The lending market for the Vanguard Industrials ETF is under acute stress — yet options traders are piling into calls at the fastest pace in weeks. The standout development is…
Options traders are making the loudest bullish statement on CVS Health in weeks. The put-call ratio hit 0.876 on September 28 — 2.4 standard deviations below the 20-day mean of 0.93. Calls are outpacing puts by the…
Stifel just flipped to Buy on STAA. The upgrade comes with a $31 target — 49% above Monday's close of $20.87. Short sellers have been heading for the exits at the same time. Stifel analyst Thomas Stephan raised his…
Markets head into the final days of September with earnings, macro policy, and short squeezes all converging at once. Micron is the week's marquee event. Results drop Wednesday after the close. The memory chip maker is…
Quarter-end is here. Options markets are showing sharp positioning shifts across several names heading into a flood of earnings reports. MU tops both the positive and negative options bets tables this week. The chip…
The final week of September brings a cluster of confirmed earnings reports. Markets are watching closely as fiscal quarters close out. Today (Tuesday, Sept 29), CAG hosts its Q1 2027 pre-recorded call. CCL reports Q3…
Wall Street turned more positive on two names today. HOOD saw its average analyst target price nudge up to $130.31. The fintech brokerage now carries a bullish consensus from 24 analysts. Its market cap has surged to…
Bill Gates filed a cluster of purchases in Republic Services worth over $260 million across late August and early September, disclosures filed September 1–3 show. Gates bought roughly 1.2 million shares in multiple…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week across several notable names. Data as of September 25 shows sharp moves in both directions. SPCX, the SpaceX tracking vehicle, saw short interest jump nearly 10 percentage…
The biggest story this week is a sharp reversal in Industrials. The sector bled $2.6B in net outflows over the past week. That stands in stark contrast to the 3-month picture, where Industrials still holds $735M in net…
Why this matters: Three lending-market signals fired on YDES simultaneously. Cost to borrow hit a record high. Availability collapsed. Short interest nearly quintupled in a week. All of it happened while the stock…
Barclays flipped bullish on LBRT on Monday — the same day options traders pushed put-call ratios to a 52-week high. That tension between a fresh analyst upgrade and rising bearish positioning defines the Liberty Energy…
Options markets are buzzing heading into a packed earnings week. Micron Technology sits at the top of bullish options bets. It ranks second only to Meta for positive options flow over the past seven days. Micron's…
Micron Technology is the week's defining story. The stock is up 279% year-to-date. It reports Q4 2026 results tomorrow after the close. Options traders are the most active in the market on MU — loading up on both…
Options traders are loading up on both sides of the semiconductor trade heading into a packed earnings week. Micron Technology leads all US stocks for both bullish and bearish options bets over the past seven days. The…
Markets face a packed schedule this week. Confirmed earnings calls and releases span tech, consumer, and industrials. Today and Tomorrow CAG kicks off today with its Q1 2027 pre-recorded earnings call after markets…
Today marks a busy start. Carnival Corporation holds its Q3 2026 earnings call this morning at 10am ET. CarMax and AAR Corp also report today. The biggest event comes tomorrow, September 30. Micron Technology releases…
Analysts are making bold calls today. The moves span pharma, tech, and fast food — with some notable target price swings. JP Morgan's Chris Schott lifted his price target on LLY to $1,500, up from $1,400. That's a $100…
MongoDB heads into tonight's earnings report having already handed investors a brutal month — and the question is whether the selling is finished or just beginning. The stock closed at $334.68 on Monday, down 25% over…
