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TDOC posted its biggest weekly gain in years on Wednesday's earnings beat, yet short sellers responded by adding to positions rather than retreating, a split that defines where the stock sits heading into November. The…
Alarm.com Holdings closes October with short interest at its highest level in at least a year, up 10% over the past month to 6.3% of free float, even as the stock has gained 20% over the same period. That divergence…
Shopify dropped 6.6% this week to $157.49, its sharpest weekly decline in months, even as every major analyst action in October moved in the same direction: up. That divergence is the tension worth sitting with ahead…
Okta, the identity security platform with a $36 billion market cap, fell 6.1% on Friday to close at $208.24, pulling back from a remarkable year-to-date run that had taken shares up more than 100%. The session's drop…
Antero Resources stands out among natural gas peers this week for a shrinking short position meeting a fresh wave of analyst target increases, a combination that has helped push the stock up 4.8% while most of its…
Short sellers have built their largest position in PGEN in at least a year, even as the stock climbed sharply through the week. Short interest reached 13.8% of the free float as of October 29, up roughly 21% over the…
ZTS slipped 1.6% on the week to $79.72, a notably weaker outcome than its closest peers: PAHC was flat, PBH added 2.6%, and SAN gained 7.6% over the same period. The analyst desk has been active and mostly cautious.…
General Motors enters November with its sharpest weekly gain of the year, a 15% surge to $87.40, yet the analyst community is trimming targets rather than chasing the move. The Street's reaction to Q3 earnings tells…
H reported Q3 earnings on October 29 and the stock rose 4.2% on the day, yet short sellers have not moved for the exit. Short interest closed out the week at 13.8% of the free float, up from 13.5% a week earlier and…
Suncor Energy is the quietest short in its peer group heading into Tuesday's Q3 results, but it has given back ground to Canadian energy names that spent most of October trailing it. Among the closest correlated names,…
Short sellers have maintained their heaviest position in GLD in at least a year, with 18.84 million shares short as of October 29. That figure is roughly double where it stood just a week earlier, a move the ORTEX data…
Teradata Corporation enters its Monday, November 2 earnings release with short sellers holding one of the more concentrated positions in the mid-cap software universe, a stake that has grown even as the stock has…
BNY gained 1.3% over the past week, a touch behind the median 1.7% advance across its closest custody and asset-management peers, with GS up 2.2% and MS gaining 2.7% while IVZ was the only name in the group to…
Short sellers have rebuilt their position in FSLR to the highest level in at least a year, with short interest climbing to 11% of the free float from around 8.4% a week earlier, adding roughly 2.8 million shares to the…
Saia, Inc. enters November with a fresh earnings beat behind it and a stock trading at $344.61, up 3.8% on the week. The tension worth watching is that options traders turned noticeably more defensive in the same…
XPO has delivered a clean earnings beat and a sharp post-result rally, with the Street responding by pushing targets higher even as shorts rebuilt modestly and options traders rotated back toward puts. The stock closed…
Alphatec Holdings just delivered one of the sharpest single-session drops in its recent history, as a Q3 earnings miss obliterated the bullish setup that had been building into the print. The damage is stark. The stock…
DXCM reported third-quarter results on October 29 and the market liked what it saw, with the stock rising nearly 3% the next day and closing the week up 5.6% at $82.29, a sharp reversal from the 8.4% drop flagged in…
TAP fell 2.6% over the past week, landing at $40.12, while the median across its closest beverage peers dropped just 1.2%, putting Molson Coors at the soft end of the group heading into its November 5 earnings…
ESLT heads into its November 17 results with the stock up 8% on the week, short interest negligible, and the borrow market unusually relaxed for an Israeli defense name sitting near its year-high. The clearest feature…
