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HLT fell 4.1% on the week to $344.65, a sharper drop than most of its closest peers, yet the analyst community responded to Tuesday's Q3 report by moving price targets higher almost across the board. Among the…
Veeva Systems enters November with an unusual mix: short sellers cutting exposure at a meaningful pace, analysts pushing targets above the current price, and earnings nine days away. The stock closed at $313.46, down…
KODK heads into its November 3 earnings report with short interest climbing fast and an activist firmly on the register. The most striking move this week is the speed of short rebuilding. Short interest jumped 20% in…
Constellium SE reported Q3 results on October 28, and the stock is now reacting, closing up 4.9% on the day to $24.56 after falling 4.7% on the week into the print. The pre-earnings positioning story told in an earlier…
T-Mobile US is reporting again today, less than a week after a Q3 print that sent the stock down 7.7% in a single session, leaving it at $146.83 and down 11% over the past month. That post-earnings drop set the context…
IQV reported earnings on October 27 and the immediate analyst response has been a broad-based round of target raises, shifting the Street's focus from whether the company could deliver to what the recovery is worth. JP…
ICLR has just passed through its Q3 earnings event with shorts partially unwinding and options positioning running near its most bullish level of the past year. The earnings preview published earlier today flagged that…
TransUnion, the consumer credit data company, dropped 5.3% on October 27 after reporting Q3 earnings, leaving the stock at $75.42 and down 3.6% on the week, a move that compares poorly against most of its closest…
Artisan Partners Asset Management reported third-quarter results on October 28, and the short position that built ahead of the print has extended further rather than unwound. Short interest climbed another 10% on…
American Tower is the quietest stock in its peer group this week, up just 0.1% while the tower and REIT names around it gained a median of 2.3%. Crown Castle led the group with an 8.3% weekly gain. SBA Communications…
ServiceNow enters its Q3 earnings release with short sellers paring back a position that spent most of October building, a reversal that puts it in a different posture from the crowded short setups visible elsewhere in…
Phillips 66 just printed earnings on October 28 and the stock fell 7% on the day, dropping to $268.53. Short sellers had already started rebuilding positions before the release. Short interest climbed 26% over the past…
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions reported Q3 earnings on October 28, and the question now is whether the positioning that surrounded the print has shifted in any meaningful way. The short answer from the lending market is:…
The VanEck Semiconductor ETF SMH has snapped back sharply this week, and the more interesting story is how quickly the defensive positioning that defined last week's note has begun to unwind. The options signal has…
SCHD, the $118bn Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF, heads into late October with a notable shift in options sentiment: call buyers have taken clear control, even as short interest briefly spiked and then retreated over…
Axogen reports quarterly results on October 29, and the stock arrives at that moment with short interest at an 11% level, a clutch of new analyst coverage, and a notable attention spike that stands out from a normally…
Xylem closed Tuesday at $92.86 after a 14% single-session collapse, and Wednesday brought a coordinated wave of analyst target cuts that confirmed the Street was wrong-footed by whatever triggered the move. The analyst…
Enphase Energy delivered its October 27 results into the teeth of a short base that had already started rebuilding, and bears wasted no time adding to positions after a quarter that came in below consensus. Short…
SunCoke Energy heads into its Q3 results on October 30 with the stock up 8% on the week, an analyst lifting his target, and options positioning at a two-standard-deviation extreme. That combination makes the next 48…
Marathon Petroleum fell 8.2% on the week, a painful drop in isolation, but cleaner than most of the refining group it trades alongside. Among its closest peers, the damage was worse almost everywhere. VLO lost 10.6%…
