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Howard Hughes Holdings heads into its Tuesday earnings release with a striking split between what insiders are doing and what short sellers have been doing over the past month. The insider signal is hard to ignore.…
Vail Resorts arrives at its October 1 earnings release with short sellers at their most aggressive in months, an activist growing its footprint, and options traders pulling back from the defensive posture seen just two…
IDT Corporation reports its fiscal fourth-quarter results on October 2, and the most telling pre-earnings signal comes not from the borrow market but from the people who know the business best — insiders have been…
NVIDIA board director Mark A. Stevens filed disclosures on September 2 showing he sold approximately $411 million worth of NVIDIA shares. The sales took place August 31 through September 2. Stevens offloaded roughly…
Alaska Air Group heads into its September 29 earnings print having lost ground against almost every major airline peer, with the stock down 6% on the week while UAL, DAL, and AAL all gained between 5% and 7% over the…
AAR Corp reports fiscal first-quarter results today against a backdrop where options traders have turned notably bullish — a sharp contrast to a stock that has shed 14% over the past month. The clearest signal heading…
RPM International reports on October 2 against a backdrop where options hedging has spiked sharply while the bullish analyst consensus from the prior article remains intact — but Morgan Stanley moved to trim its target…
Jefferies Financial Group heads into its October 2 Q3 print having already reported on September 28 — Friday's release follows a month that stripped 11% from the stock, now at $47.13, well below the $54.86 price…
Constellation Brands heads into its October 2 earnings report with the stock at $112.92 — down 14% over the past month — and a gap between price and analyst consensus that has grown more conspicuous even as the targets…
Short sellers moved aggressively this week. MMED (MiniMed Group) saw the biggest jump among mid-cap names. Its SI % FF leapt from 41% to nearly 69% in seven days — a 27-point surge. SPCX (Space Exploration…
British American Tobacco arrives at Wednesday's earnings with options traders still more defensive than usual — and the defensive tone has, if anything, sharpened since the last preview. The put/call ratio closed…
Micron Technology (MU) is the week's most-watched name. It reports Q4 2026 results Wednesday after the close. Bears are already positioned. MU attracted the heaviest negative options flow of any large-cap US stock over…
Options flow is flashing mixed signals heading into the final week of September, with semiconductor names drawing the heaviest bearish positioning while healthcare bulls chase a high-profile analyst call. MU attracted…
Investors face a packed calendar this week. Several major names report between today and Thursday, with semiconductor and consumer giants in focus. Today (Tuesday, Sep 29): CCL Carnival Corporation kicks off with its…
Analysts turned bullish on pharma and bearish on fast food in Monday's session. Eli Lilly received the biggest target price hike of the day. JP Morgan's Chris Schott raised his target from $1,400 to $1,500, reiterating…
Fresh filings show two notable open-market purchases reported on September 8. The chairman of BURVA, Turkish industrial valve maker Burçelik Vana, bought shares worth $12.9 million on September 7. That is a meaningful…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on MMED last week. The medical device maker's SI % of FF jumped 27 percentage points in seven days to 68.5%. Availability sits at just 2.1% of short interest. That signals very tight…
US-focused ETFs pulled in a net $31.1B this week. That is the dominant story. Meanwhile, Industrials suffered the steepest sector outflow — $2.6B — even as it attracted modest buying over the past three months. The US…
Semiconductors are dominating every corner of the market today. Options flow in MU is two-sided — the stock has the most put AND call activity in the S&P 500 this week. MU reports Q4 2026 results Wednesday after the…
Options markets are sending a mixed signal on semiconductors. Both the largest bearish and bullish bets in the S&P 500 this week are concentrated in the same chip names — a sign traders are paying up for big moves in…
