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A busy week lies ahead. Over 475 US/Canada companies have events scheduled between today and October 4. Today (Monday, September 28), IDT and MTN hold earnings calls after the bell. Vail Resorts reports Q4 2026 results…
Micron Technology led Monday's analyst activity. The memory chip giant's average target price rose to $1,520, up from $1,515. That's a modest move. But it comes with a near-clean Buy consensus from 44 analysts. Short…
Bill Gates has been quietly building a massive position in RSG. Filings show he bought over $927 million worth of Republic Services shares between mid-August and early September. The purchases covered 4.2 million…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. The clearest signal came from BRVE (Braveheart Bio), where SI % of Free Float exploded to 648% — up from 237% just seven days ago. That 411-point jump is the largest weekly move…
AIIR enters the final week of September caught between a stock that keeps climbing and a borrow market that keeps tightening — an unusual combination that deserves attention from anyone watching this name. The lending…
EROC enters the final week of September with a striking contradiction at its core: short sellers have roughly doubled their positions in a month, yet an activist investor holding a 78% Schedule 13D stake sits at the…
Lincoln International enters the final week of September under noticeable pressure, having shed more than 10% over the past five trading days to close at $23.37 — even as Friday delivered a modest 1% bounce. The most…
AADX enters the final week of September with a striking and sudden shift in short positioning — one of the sharpest weekly build-ups the stock has seen since its NYSE debut. The headline number is hard to ignore: short…
PEP has now collected four bearish signals in five days. The October 8 earnings date is shaping up as the focal point for a stock that has lost nearly 10% in a month and just absorbed its first major downgrade of the…
Liftoff Mobile enters the final week of September with a striking build in short positions against a stock already down 15% in a month — and an activist investor on the register with a Schedule 13D stake. The short…
FPT Corporation has shed nearly 10% in seven days, pulling the stock to its lowest level in months, even as analysts see meaningful upside from current prices. The price action is the week's defining story. FPT closed…
Forbright, Inc. has drawn a sudden wave of short-selling interest since its mid-September listing, even as the borrow market remains wide open and the analyst community is broadly constructive. The most striking…
Iran's nuclear deal pessimism hit markets hard today. Iranian officials demanded uranium enrichment continue. That broke confidence in any near-term US agreement. Oil proxies moved sharply. USO put buying spiked as…
Geopolitics and end-of-quarter positioning collided in options markets on Monday. Iranian officials signalling pessimism over a US nuclear deal drove defensive bets across energy and broad-market contracts. SPY and USO…
The final week of Q3 brings a dense earnings calendar. Several high-profile companies report between Monday and Thursday. Today (Monday, September 28) sees IDT, Vail Resorts, and Jefferies Financial Group all drop…
Analyst target prices shifted across several names on Monday. Downgrades dominated consumer and tech. Akamai Technologies saw its average target price cut to $157.27 from $158.79. The CDN and cloud security firm…
Bill Gates filed to disclose purchases of more than $119 million in Republic Services stock in early September. The trades — spread across September 1 and 2 — were reported on September 3. Gates bought roughly 534,000…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week. Several names saw dramatic moves in short interest — here are the standouts. BRVE (Braveheart Bio) tops the charts. Short interest hit a staggering 648% of free float — up…
Institutional flows are flashing a clear warning sign for US equities this week. ETFs tracking American stocks shed a net $30.8B over the past seven days. That is the largest single-geography outflow in the data. Over…
Why this matters: Short interest in SECZ nearly tripled in a week. Borrow costs spiked to a record 133%. Now both are pulling back — and the options market is firmly on the bull side. Two convergence reports last week…
