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Prologis enters the final days of October with a cleaner short book than it had a month ago, but a freshly trimmed price target from one of its bulls and a potential acquisition on the horizon are giving investors more…
Short sellers have been cutting exposure to CHEF at an extraordinary rate, with short interest falling by more than half over the past month to reach its lowest level in at least a year. The numbers behind that retreat…
Nebius Group snapped back 11% on Tuesday to close at $170.47, yet the short position has barely moved and the borrow market has quietly loosened further, leaving the stock caught between a sharp one-day recovery and a…
HCA Healthcare fell 3.4% over the past week to $449.96, a notably softer outcome than the near-flat median across its closest hospital peers, and the stock now sits below what analysts collectively think it is…
Kinder Morgan gained 0.8% over the past week, a solid week in isolation but one that lagged the midstream peer group, where WMB rose 5.3%, DTM added 4.9%, and OKE gained 3.4%. KMI's short interest, at roughly 2% of the…
Meta Platforms fell harder than almost any name in its peer group this week, dropping 10.7% to $620.19 while the median decline among its closest correlated peers was 5.3%, and that gap is the sharpest fact on the tape…
BankUnited has had a week of contradictory signals: short interest has rebuilt since the Q3 print while options positioning has swung decisively away from the cautious stance that preceded it. The pre-earnings short…
STAG Industrial arrives at its Q3 2026 earnings print with two competing forces: a fresh $250 million buyback authorization announced October 27, and a short interest position that has climbed 13% over the past week to…
American Assets Trust delivered its Q3 results on Tuesday with the market's attention fixed less on the numbers than on the man who owns 38% of the company and spent $20 million buying the stock in the weeks…
PACB heads into next week's Q3 earnings report with a 25% weekly gain behind it, a still-large short base in front of it, and options traders who are, by historical standards, the most bullish they have been all…
VC has dropped a further 16% since its October 22 earnings shock, and the forces piling on have not eased: short sellers are rebuilding positions, options traders have turned conspicuously defensive, and ORTEX now puts…
Precision Drilling reports Q3 results tomorrow morning with an interesting split: the stock has rallied hard while short interest has quietly rebuilt at the same time, a combination that sets up the earnings print as…
The S&P 500 index has bounced back from its two-week slide, with VOO adding 0.1% on the week to close at $707.52, recovering ground that last week's note described as lost. The one-month return remains modestly…
NXP Semiconductors closed at $253.50 on October 27, up 3.1% on the day and 6.7% on the week, after reporting Q3 results that the market had already largely priced in through a weeks-long rally against the grain of…
Tesla has continued its post-earnings recovery, up 9% on the week to $407.46, but the mood in the derivatives and lending markets tells a more measured story than the price action suggests. Options positioning has…
A. O. Smith heads into its Q3 earnings call on October 29 with the short position meaningfully lighter than a week ago and options traders now firmly in the call camp, a notable shift from the bearish setup documented…
Generac Holdings just reported Q3 results on October 28, and short sellers used the run-up to rebuild positions at the fastest weekly pace in months. Short interest climbed 14.7% over the past week to 4.86% of the free…
LPL Financial Holdings reports Q3 results after tonight's close at $317.56, down 1.3% on the week while most of its closest peers posted gains, a gap that sharpens the relevance of tonight's numbers. The peer…
Constellation Energy arrives at the week of its November 5 earnings report with short sellers pulling back and a fresh wave of analyst upgrades pushing the consensus price target well above the current share…
WEN fell 5.8% this week to $6.14, extending a month of steady selling, while short interest climbed to 27.2% of the free float and two analysts trimmed their targets in the same five-day window. The short position has…
