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Short interest data from ORTEX as of 30 October shows several sharp moves in the past week. The action is concentrated in energy infrastructure, AI hardware, and restructured names. TLN, Talen Energy, saw its short…
The week's most striking signal is a rush into Asian markets. Over $10.5B flowed into China ETFs in the past seven days. Japan added $4.4B and Taiwan pulled in $3.7B. That is a sharp break from the three-month trend,…
Lucid Group reports Q3 results on Thursday with short sellers holding their largest position in at least a year and the borrow market near its tightest. Short interest has climbed to 31.5% of the free float, up 12%…
Hertz Global Holdings reports Thursday with 40% of its free float sold short, borrow costs at 162% APR, zero availability in the lending pool, and a stock that has clawed back 11% over the past month to $1.95. The…
EVCM arrives at its November 5 earnings print with the borrow market almost entirely locked up, a dynamic that makes the stock unusually sensitive to whatever the numbers deliver. The lending side of the story is the…
Harmony Biosciences heads into its November 4 Q3 earnings print with shorts at their most aggressive in months and options traders paying heavily for downside protection. The short interest story is genuinely…
MACOM Technology Solutions has fallen harder than its semiconductor peers over the past week, down 8.8% against a median decline of 4.3% for its closest correlated group, which includes Semtech, SiTime, and…
Galaxy Entertainment Group reports third-quarter results on Thursday, November 6, at a moment when short sellers have been building positions at their fastest pace in at least a year. Short interest has climbed 36%…
JAN reports its first quarterly results as a public company today against a backdrop of broad analyst optimism, a wave of fresh coverage initiations, and a modest softening in price targets ahead of the print. The…
LIFE enters its November 3 earnings report with short interest that has nearly doubled over the past month and its CEO reducing his stake on a pre-arranged plan, a combination that makes the ownership picture the most…
Voyager Technologies is a space and defense technology company that reports earnings today, November 3, after several weeks of mounting short pressure and a sharp single-day decline that left the stock at $24.59. Short…
HNGE enters its November 5 earnings report with short sellers pulling back sharply even as most of its closest peers face a rougher week. Among the correlated group, HIMS dropped 8.5% over the past week, NUTX fell…
Short interest in IBTA has dropped sharply over the past week, even as the stock climbs to its best levels in a month, a combination that tells a pointed story ahead of Tuesday's earnings. The retreat in short…
TBBB reports its first earnings as a listed company today with analyst price targets still trailing the share price, short sellers retreating, and the CEO holding a Schedule 13D activist stake, an unusual combination…
VNOM dropped 4.1% on Monday to $45.72, a sharp divergence from every one of its closest correlated peers, each of which closed higher. FANG gained 2.7% on the day, COP added 2.7%, and the rest of the peer group moved…
AESI dropped 10.7% on November 2, closing at $8.23, while its closest oilfield services peers fell between 4% and 13% on the same session. The stock has lost 31.6% over the past month. The question now is whether the…
VTS heads into its Q3 earnings release with an unusual split: short sellers remain deeply committed, yet options positioning has shifted sharply toward the bullish side. Short interest at 14.1% of the free float is a…
TPG, the San Francisco-based alternative asset manager, reports its next quarterly results on November 4 with short interest at its highest level in at least a year and a wall of analyst target increases arriving in…
GRAB reports third-quarter results today, November 3, with an unusual convergence of signals: a CEO making one of the largest open-market purchases in the company's recent history, short sellers cutting positions at a…
Crescent Energy Company dropped 5.1% on November 2 to $13.47, a day when every close peer posted gains of 1.8% to 2.5%. Chord Energy, Permian Resources, Talos Energy and Northern Oil and Gas all finished higher on the…
