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VNO rebounds sharply, but shorts are quietly building

VNO has posted one of its strongest weeks in months — a 6.5% gain that leaves it trading at $32.16 — yet the borrow market tells a more cautious story running just beneath the surface. The most striking feature of this…

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Trader NoteTREX

TREX shorts build while options turn bullish after Q1 beat

Trex Company enters the post-earnings week with a split personality: short sellers have been adding exposure at the fastest pace in months, yet options traders just pivoted sharply toward calls. The stock closed at…

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TACT CEO Buys In, CFO Exits Before Tuesday's Q1 Print

TACT heads into Monday's Q1 earnings announcement with a pair of leadership moves — and fresh CEO buying — that raise the stakes on an already closely watched micro-cap. The headline development is management…

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Trader NoteNVR

NVR Analysts Cut Targets as Stock Slides to 14-Month Lows

NVR, Inc. heads into the second week of May with the Street in damage-control mode — targets have been trimmed across the board following a soft Q1 print, and the stock is now down 18% year-to-date. The most striking…

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MCHP earns a wave of analyst upgrades after earnings

Microchip Technology enters the back half of the trading week with one of the clearest post-earnings analyst validation signals the semiconductor space has seen this quarter — a coordinated wave of target raises from…

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Trader NoteMTD

MTD Drops 15% on Soft Q2 Guidance

Mettler-Toledo International headed into Thursday's Q1 earnings print with a strong beat on both revenue and EPS — then fell off a cliff on Q2 guidance that came in below consensus. The stock closed at $1,124.46 on…

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McKesson Sells Off Hard, but the Street Holds Its Nerve

McKesson heads into the post-earnings period with a sharp gap between price action and analyst conviction — the stock down nearly 10% on the week, yet the Street uniformly holding Buy-equivalent ratings. The stock…

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LQMT rallies 38% in a month — then earnings arrive

Liquidmetal Technologies heads into its Q1 earnings release with the stock up almost 38% over the past month, borrow costs collapsing, and the latest quarterly numbers already on the table — a combination that makes…

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LAKE: Shorts Squeezed as Options Turn Bullish

Lakeland Industries finds itself in a rare position this week: the stock is up 12% while nearly one in six shares of the free float remains sold short — and options traders have abruptly shifted to the most bullish…

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Trader NoteHON

Honeywell Shorts Rebuild Ahead of May Earnings

HON heads into its May 22 earnings call as a stock that shook out bears after Q1, only to see them quietly return — all while analysts tightened their targets without abandoning the bull thesis. Short interest has been…

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HE Misses Earnings as Shorts Build on Maui Overhang

Hawaiian Electric Industries heads into the weekend under fresh pressure — a Q1 earnings miss has compounded a month of rebuilding short interest and a stock that has shed 3% over the past week to close at $14.83. The…

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CCEL Fights to Stay Listed — and Shorts Are Backing Off

Cryo-Cell International enters the back half of May with a compliance clock running. NYSE American accepted the cord blood bank's plan to regain listing compliance on May 8, giving the company until September 9 to meet…

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TruBridge heads into Q1 earnings with shorts retreating fast

TBRG stock has nearly doubled from its April lows, yet the short position is quietly unwinding — making next week's earnings the moment where the revised story gets its first real test. The price move is the most…

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Trader NoteATO

ATO Pulls Back After Earnings as Street Holds Neutral

Atmos Energy closed the week at $180.87, down 4.1% over five sessions — the worst weekly performance the natural gas utility has posted in recent months. The dip came directly on the heels of earnings, and it frames a…

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Akamai's earnings gap leaves shorts scrambling

Akamai Technologies posted its strongest single-day price move in years on May 7 and 8, and the story this week is about a 12% short position now sitting on a 42% paper loss. The earnings result was the catalyst.…

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