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Constellium SE gets a boost from Wall Street's most bullish call in months. The aluminum producer received an upgrade to Overweight from JP Morgan on October 29, even as the stock sits 4.5% lower on the week. Why this…
BHVN cost to borrow hit 6.43% on October 28, up from 0.54% just two days earlier. That is a 1,042% rise in one week, and the sharpest move in the lending market for months on a stock already carrying 13.5% of its free…
Universal Insurance Holdings has seen a sharp reversal in short positioning in the six days since Q3 results. The borrow market has moved decisively in the same direction, and retail attention has jumped to its highest…
Post-earnings signals on CSTM are pulling in opposite directions. The stock fell 4.5% over the past week, the steepest drop among its closest peers, while put demand and analyst caution both ticked up after the Q3…
BMI stands out as one of the more heavily shorted names in its peer group. Short interest sits at 14.8% of free float, well above ITRI, its closest correlated peer. Among the broader electronic equipment and…
Wells Fargo upgraded eBay to Equal-Weight this morning, raising its price target 16.5% to $106 from $91. The move is a direct reversal: analyst Ken Gawrelski had trimmed that same $91 target just 17 days ago while…
LKQ reports Q3 results today. The options market just signalled acute anxiety about the outcome. Why this matters: The put/call ratio hit 0.75 on October 28, a 4.2 standard deviation spike above its 20-day mean of…
Xylem fell 17% in the past week, against a median gain of 0.2% for its closest peers. The selloff was company-specific, triggered by earnings results released October 27 that prompted a broad analyst reset and a sharp…
Intel stock has risen to $95.53 after its Q4 print, shorts have cut 10.6% of their position in one week, and New Street Research just placed a $125 target on the stock. Three data points are pulling in the same…
Houlihan Lokey reports second-quarter earnings today. The boutique M&A and restructuring adviser is attracting an unusual burst of retail attention at the same moment short sellers are stepping back. Wikipedia views…
Renasant Corporation collected a Raymond James downgrade this morning, the day after Q3 earnings landed and the stock fell 3.7%. The rating moves from Strong Buy to Outperform, with the price target cut to $45 from…
Short interest in Builders FirstSource has climbed to 8.8% of free float, the highest reading since late September, with a 14.9% week-on-week rise that puts it at its steepest level in over a year. The company reports…
Bears are building positions in Venture Global even as the stock outpaces nearly every close peer. Short interest has climbed to 9.5% of free float, up 10.7% in a week, while Wikipedia views and ORTEX page traffic hit…
Chemed's pre-earnings short build has started to unwind. Jefferies upgraded CHE to Buy on Wednesday, raising its target 19% to $620 and pointing to a VITAS hospice rebound in 2026 and improving margins as the key…
Short sellers have been cutting exposure to OKTA at an unusual pace. Among its closest peers, NET and MDB carry heavier short positioning. OKTA's own short interest has fallen to 3.86% of free float, the lowest in two…
Three signals converged on Tesla this week, each pointing in a different direction. Barclays upgraded to Overweight. The borrow market loosened further. Yet the options market is the most cautious it has been in…
BNL reports on October 29. The put/call ratio hit 0.40 on Tuesday, a 52-week high and 2.9 standard deviations above its 20-day average of 0.15. Short interest jumped 16.1% in one week to 11.0% of free float, the…
ConocoPhillips fell 2.3% on Tuesday to $147.96. The put-call ratio hit 0.78, sitting 2.8 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.74. That is the most defensive options positioning COP has seen in weeks, with…
Dollar General has shed short interest faster than almost any point in the past year. At 2.5% of the free float, the position is now at its lowest in months. That puts it well below Dollar Tree and most of its discount…
DOW stock has risen 21% over the past month. The bears are pulling back. Short interest in Dow Inc. has dropped 10.4% over the past week to 4.16% of free float, the lowest reading in two months. That compares with a…
