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RWT Analysts Cut Targets After Earnings Selloff

RWT heads into the post-earnings week as one of the worst performers in its mortgage REIT peer group, down 7.2% on the week and 5.5% in Tuesday's session alone after reporting Q2 results on July 28. The analyst…

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RJF Shorts Retreat as Analysts Lift Targets Post-Earnings

Raymond James Financial has spent the week after its July 22 earnings print doing exactly what the pre-results options positioning dared to hope — the stock has climbed 5.5% to $177.18, and the bears who were already…

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RLI Earnings Beat Meets a Street Split

RLI has gained 8% this week and 13% over the past month, but the stock's first real test arrives today: Q2 results are in, and the analyst community has split sharply on what they mean. The most consequential move came…

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Quanta Drops 8% Into Earnings as Sector Sells Off

Quanta Services walks into its July 30 Q2 earnings release down 8% on the week and 14% over the past month, with the entire electrical infrastructure peer group under pressure and options traders hedging more…

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QCOM Post-Earnings: Shorts Rebuild as Stock Slides

QUALCOMM has reported earnings and the market's verdict is brutal — the stock is down 14% over the past month and fell another 4.2% on Tuesday, with short sellers reversing the retreat that defined the pre-earnings…

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Polaris Earnings Land Flat — Options Traders Turn Bullish

Polaris Inc. reported Q2 results on July 28 with the stock dropping 4.2% on the day, even as analysts lifted targets and options positioning flipped to its most call-heavy reading of recent months. The clearest signal…

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Pentair Bounces Hard After Earnings, But Targets Keep Falling

PNR just delivered its sharpest weekly gain in months — up 8.6% to $66.77 — yet the analyst community spent the same two days cutting price targets again, leaving the stock in an unusual position: a relief rally…

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Piper Sandler Lifts Target as PGC Clears Earnings

PGC emerged from its Q2 print with the Street's conviction intact — and one analyst wasted no time raising the bar. Piper Sandler moved its target to $58 on July 29, up from $54, maintaining its Overweight rating. That…

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PACCAR Rallies 9% on Earnings Beat as Street Lifts Targets

PCAR just delivered its strongest week in months, with the stock jumping 9.5% to $138.21 — and the catalyst is straightforward: quarterly results released Tuesday afternoon triggered an immediate re-rating from the…

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Morgan Stanley Downgrade Lands Days Before OKE Earnings

ONEOK heads into its August 3 earnings report with the most significant analyst cut of the year landing just hours ago — and a stock already down 3.3% on the week. The catalyst for this week's pressure is clear. Morgan…

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NVDA Holds $197 as Peers Crater and August 19 Looms

NVIDIA is clinging to the $197 level after last week's 5% breakdown, but the more interesting story this week is what's happening around it — the semiconductor peer group has been hit far harder, and the August 19…

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Nucor Analysts Chase the Rally as Earnings Loom

NUE heads into its July 30 earnings release with analysts racing to catch up to a stock that has already moved — and options traders still hedging hard despite a 14% week. The analyst response to this week's rally has…

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NWBI Posts Earnings Gain as Analyst Lifts Target

Northwest Bancshares reported Q2 earnings on July 28, and the stock responded with a 3.2% gain — a clean beat of expectations that prompted the most meaningful analyst move on the name in months. DA Davidson's Jeff…

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