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Alibaba heads into its September 22 quarterly print with options traders making their most bullish bet of the past year. The clearest signal is in the options market. The put/call ratio has dropped to 0.497 — a full…
Short sellers made sharp moves this week. The clearest action came in mid-cap names, with notable builds and covers happening simultaneously. MMED (MiniMed Group) saw the biggest percentage-point jump among larger…
BUD heads into its September 22 earnings release with short sellers rebuilding positions at a pace not seen this year, creating a notable tension with an analyst community that broadly believes the stock is cheap. The…
TD SYNNEX reports fiscal Q3 results on September 22 with analysts broadly constructive but freshly cautious on margin delivery, after a quarter in which the stock gained about 2.5% but remains slightly softer on the…
General Mills arrives at its September 23 earnings report with options traders firmly on the call side — a stance that has only sharpened since the September 16 print. The clearest positioning signal is in options. The…
A wave of analyst target cuts has reshaped the setup for AZO ahead of its September 22 earnings report, with the Street maintaining bullish ratings but steadily lowering its sights on a stock already down 7% over the…
Short sellers are making bold bets heading into the weekend. SWBI saw the sharpest jump — short interest leapt from 6.0% to 10.1% of free float in a single week. Bears nearly doubled their position in the gunmaker.…
Morgan Stanley swept through the US utilities sector on Friday, cutting price targets across five names. Analyst David Arcaro trimmed PPL to $39 from $42, PNW to $89 from $94, and PCG to $20 from $22. NEE also took a…
Three large insider moves filed in recent weeks paint a contrasting picture of corporate confidence. NVIDIA director cashes out. Mark Stevens, an independent director at NVDA, filed on September 2 disclosing he sold…
Short sellers are on the move this week. ORTEX data as of September 17 reveals sharp shifts across several sectors — with a gunmaker, a footwear brand, and a chip maker all drawing fresh bearish attention. Biggest…
Fixed income is the standout story this week. ETFs tracking bonds pulled in $28.6B in net new money over seven days. That compares to $259B over three months — a pace that has accelerated sharply. The flow imbalance…
The chip trade remains the defining story. Micron Technology leads bullish options flow with the stock up 242% year-to-date. Call buyers are piling in ahead of its Q4 earnings. Advanced Micro Devices and NVIDIA are…
Options flow is telling two very different stories this week. Semiconductors are drawing heavy bullish bets. Energy refiners are seeing defensive positioning as geopolitical risk swirls. Micron Technology tops the…
Two confirmed earnings reports headline a quiet week. Most major names on the calendar are attending conferences, not releasing results. Today: Progressive and VinFast The Progressive Corporation reports today. The…
Morgan Stanley swept through the US utilities sector today, trimming target prices across the board. PPL fell to $39 from $42. PG&E dropped to $20 from $22. NextEra Energy slipped to $111 from $114. NRG Energy was cut…
Short sellers have been busy. Braveheart Bio tops the charts with a jaw-dropping SI of 226% of free float — and it jumped another 36.5 percentage points in just seven days. That's one of the sharpest weekly short…
Three signals aligned on BWIN this week — and they all point in the same direction. Short sellers are exiting fast, options traders are skewing heavily bullish, and one analyst is worried enough to step to the…
Riken Technos is entering the final stretch before its October earnings with borrowing costs accelerating sharply — even as the short position itself remains modest — creating an unusual divergence worth watching in a…
8975 enters the final stretch of September as one of the few Japanese office REITs posting a gain on the week, while the names around it sell off — and the lending data tells a quietly interesting story about how that…
Kagome heads into its October 30 earnings report as the quiet underperformer of the Japanese packaged food space — down 0.8% on the week while most peers pushed higher, with short sellers still maintaining a meaningful…
