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Goldman's Upgrade Catches Up with PARR's 10% Week

Par Pacific Holdings enters the week of May 6 in an unusual spot: the stock has finally caught up to where Goldman Sachs thought it should be, while insiders had already been quietly heading for the exits. The week's…

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Qualys beats Q1 but the Street stays cautious

QLYS just printed a beat-and-raise quarter — yet analysts are cutting targets, short sellers have rebuilt a 13% position, and the stock is still trading 30% below where it started the year. The numbers on Tuesday…

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BLMN beats Street — but JP Morgan's Underweight looms large

Bloomin' Brands reported its strongest quarterly beat in recent memory this morning, yet the stock has barely budged — a combination of a freshly minted JP Morgan downgrade and a short position that remains elevated…

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NOW shorts rebuild ahead of a bruising earnings track record

ServiceNow heads into its May 21 earnings report with short sellers having materially rebuilt positions over the past six weeks — against a backdrop of two consecutive post-earnings routs and a stock that has yet to…

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PANW analysts lift targets ahead of May earnings

Palo Alto Networks heads into its May 20 earnings call with Street analysts raising targets at pace — the clearest single tension for the stock this week. The analyst move has been unusually swift and one-directional.…

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Analysts Pile Behind FANG After Q1 Beat

Diamondback Energy closed Tuesday at $206.18, down 3.5% on the day but up 3% on the week. That whipsaw captures the week's dynamic precisely: strong Q1 earnings followed by a sell-the-news session, against a backdrop…

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TGTX beats on revenue, shorts stay anchored

TG Therapeutics reported Q1 2026 results today with a notable split: revenue of $204.9 million beat the $196.8 million consensus estimate, while adjusted EPS of $0.18 missed the $0.30 estimate by a wide margin. The…

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OIH: Shorts Retreat as Oil Services ETF Bounces Hard

OIH heads into the second week of May with a striking disconnect: the ETF has staged a 10% recovery over the past month while short sellers have rapidly unwound positions — yet the ORTEX short score holds near 67,…

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SMH's 33% Month Runs Into a Wall of Protective Puts

SMH, the VanEck Semiconductor ETF, has just completed one of its sharpest one-month recoveries on record — yet options traders have barely relaxed their defensive posture. The rally itself is striking. SMH closed at…

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QXO shorts circle as earnings approach

QXO heads into its May 8 earnings call with short sellers at their most aggressive in months — and the stock already down 4% on the week. Short interest has become the dominant story. At 13.1% of the free float, it has…

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Aptiv: Earnings Beat, Stock Hits 52-Week Low

APTV reported Q1 results that beat estimates — then fell to a new 52-week low. That gap between the fundamental beat and the price reaction is the defining tension of this week. APTV dropped nearly 8% on Tuesday,…

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VAC Holds Ground After Earnings Miss as Shorts Retreat

Marriott Vacations Worldwide enters the post-earnings period in a paradox: it missed Q1 estimates by $0.43 per share, yet the stock is up 9% over the past month and shorts have been cutting positions at one of the…

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SCHD: Options Turn Bullish as Short Sellers Build Positions

SCHD, the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF, is trading with a curious split personality this week — options traders have turned notably bullish while short sellers have quietly doubled their positions over the past…

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POET Rockets 30% Into a Class Action Storm

POET Technologies delivered one of the week's most jarring price swings — a 30% surge on May 5 to $9.21, up 51% over the past month — arriving on the same day a wave of securities class action lawsuits landed at its…

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ALSN Beats and Bounces, but the Street Stays Neutral

Allison Transmission delivered a Q1 2026 earnings beat, only to slide on the week — and the analyst community's response tells you exactly why the market's reaction was muted. The clearest story coming out of this week…

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Analysts Chase the Rally After MPC's Earnings Beat

Marathon Petroleum heads into the post-earnings week with Wall Street scrambling to update targets and the stock up 12% in five sessions — a setup where the analyst community is chasing price rather than leading…

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NBIS: A $643M Deal, a Record High, and Shorts Caught Offside

Nebius Group walked into the May 13 earnings call week having already detonated its biggest catalyst of the year — a $643 million acquisition of Eigen AI and a confirmed expansion of its Meta partnership — sending the…

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CLRB Borrow Market Seizes Up Ahead of Thursday Earnings

Cellectar Biosciences enters its May 8 earnings call in a radically different lending market than it sat in just 48 hours ago. The story this week is the lending market, and it moved with extraordinary speed. Short…

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Sequans sells Bitcoin, shorts flee

SQNS just reported Q1 earnings — and the story that emerged is stranger than the chip business it was supposed to be. Q1 revenue fell 24.8% to $6.1 million. The net loss hit $54.3 million, but most of that — $41…

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HCA Investors Price In a Rougher Road Ahead

HCA Healthcare enters the week after its Q1 earnings print with options markets running unusually defensive, short sellers rebuilding positions at a pace not seen in months, and a coordinated analyst target-price reset…

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