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The direction of travel for XLRE has reversed sharply this week, with short interest climbing at a pace that stands out against the ETF's own recent history. Over the past seven days, short positions in the real estate…
MSG Knickerbockers Corp. enters the week in an unusual position: a freshly separated Knicks-only stub, down 26% over seven days, trading at $305 with a Q1 earnings print due November 2. The price drop is the dominant…
Aclaris Therapeutics reports Q3 results on November 6, and the setup is a familiar tension for clinical-stage biotechs: short sellers hold a meaningful position while a wall of analyst coverage points to multiples of…
PayPal short sellers have been cutting exposure steadily, with short interest falling to 3.1% of the free float after peaking above 3.7% in mid-October. The decline accelerated through the back half of the week, with…
Wingstop heads into its Q3 earnings print with short sellers trimming positions yet analysts still slashing targets, a split in sentiment that defines the stock's uncomfortable setup at $123.52. Short interest has…
CIGI is one of the calmer names in its peer group this week, even as a Schedule 13D filing adds a new layer of attention to the stock. Among the closest peers, CBRE dropped nearly 9.4% over the past week and JLL fell…
GKOS is the most shorted name in its ophthalmology cohort, with short interest at 8.3% of free float, a level its closest peers do not come close to matching. Among the names most correlated to Glaukos, STAA gained…
ETSY gained just 0.3% over the past week, but that narrow move puts it ahead of nearly every name in its peer group, where the median stock fell 2.0%, and the short-selling community has been trimming exposure into the…
NET has reversed course sharply this week, climbing 12.4% to $327.80 after last week's 16% drop, with a wave of analyst target increases arriving just as the stock was finding its footing. The analyst response to the…
Indivior Pharmaceuticals enters its October 29 earnings release with short sellers retreating, two activists on the register in different stages of exit, and a stock acquisition deal driving mechanical index flows…
Urban Edge Properties reports Thursday with the stock down 3.3% over the past month, trading at $19.25, while most of its retail REIT peers have posted solid weekly gains, a divergence that makes the Q3 print the…
V2X, Inc. delivers mission support and defense logistics to the US government, and this week its shares climbed 10.1% to $77.17, a move that arrives five days before the company reports quarterly results on November 2,…
Viking Therapeutics heads into its Q3 earnings print today with a stock down 30% over the past month, shorts sitting at 22.6% of the float, and options traders still leaning toward calls rather than puts. The short…
Among its closest software peers, HUBS carries one of the more meaningful short positions, at 7.3% of free float. That figure has been falling fast. Short interest dropped 12.5% over the past week, from roughly 4.4…
PAYC was almost flat on the week at $261.94, down just 0.1%, while its closest HCM peers drifted lower: PAYX fell 3.0%, BR dropped 1.6%, and PCTY was roughly unchanged. The relative resilience comes as analysts race to…
FIVN heads into its November 5 earnings report with short interest running at its highest level in months and retail attention surging, even as the stock itself has held up better than bears might have hoped. The most…
PCTY held almost flat on the week, up less than 0.1% to $170.07, while most of its closest peers fell. ADP was down fractionally, PAYX dropped 3%, and PAYC slipped 2.4%. That relative resilience is notable given the…
InvenTrust Properties Corp. has now reported Q3 earnings, and the positioning picture that built ahead of Tuesday's release is beginning to unwind. Short interest peaked at 7.1% of the free float on October 26, the…
USFR, WisdomTree's $21 billion floating-rate Treasury ETF, enters the final days of October with borrow demand near zero and options positioning tilted almost entirely toward calls, a setup that reflects investor…
AMC heads into its November 4 earnings release with short sellers pulling back sharply this week, even as the stock itself gives up ground. Short interest dropped 7.5% over the past week to 9.2% of the free float,…
