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New Oriental Education & Technology Group heads into its fiscal quarter earnings release today with a notable cluster of signals: short positions building, retail attention at a two-month high, and the stock trailing…
EVR is heading into a post-earnings week with short sellers clearly less convinced of the bear case, even as the Street's price targets sit well above where the stock is trading. Short interest has fallen sharply and…
Travel + Leisure Co. has reported Q3 earnings and the reaction has been instructive: shorts covered sharply, the stock added 2.5% on the day to close at $67.23, yet the analyst community responded by trimming price…
LOGN enters the post-earnings week with its price recovering sharply and short positioning at its loosest in months, a setup where the bears have clearly stepped back. The stock closed at CHF 91.96 on Tuesday, up 3.3%…
Mastercard reports Q3 results on October 29 having already spent the prior week drifting lower, with the stock closing at $609.85 on Tuesday, down 1.7% on the week, as a small but measurable short-selling rebuild…
TotalEnergies SE closes the week at €83.00, up 3.8%, with third-quarter results due tomorrow and the lending market signalling that short sellers have almost entirely stepped aside. Availability has widened to its…
FPX, the First Trust US Equity Opportunities ETF, presents a modest but quietly shifting picture this week. The most interesting development is not the price, which is essentially flat, but a sudden tightening in the…
USO ends the week with short interest at its highest level in over a month, reversing a mid-October dip and reinforcing the picture of a fund where bearish conviction runs deep even as the crude oil market itself edges…
RPG, the Invesco S&P 500 Pure Growth ETF, heads into the final stretch of October with short sellers quietly unwinding positions even as the fund itself has come under pressure from a difficult growth environment. The…
AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. heads into its November 18 earnings with a tightening analyst consensus and a short position that has grown quietly but steadily over the past month. The analyst picture has turned more…
United Airlines Holdings has undergone one of the sharpest positioning reversals in its recent history: short sellers fled at more than 2.7 standard deviations below the stock's typical weekly change, and the options…
Chipotle Mexican Grill reports its Q3 results today, October 28, with the stock down 5.6% on the week to $27.98, a steeper drop than the median decline of roughly 2.7% among its closest peers over the same…
AT&T shed 10.6% over the past week to close at $20.94, a move that dwarfs the median 1.8% decline among its closest telecom peers and leaves the stock at levels not seen in recent memory, even as the short book that…
BN has rarely attracted much short-seller attention, but the past month has brought the biggest build in borrowed shares in at least a year, arriving just as the stock trades at its highest levels in months. Short…
Central Bancompany heads into its November 4 earnings print with short interest falling sharply, a heavily insider-controlled register, and the Street sitting cautiously on the sidelines after a 8% rally over the past…
Renasant Corporation closed its Q3 earnings day with three stories running at once: a result just delivered, a $175 million buyback authorization announced alongside it, and a short position sitting at its highest…
FEMSA UBD has moved into a quieter phase after Tuesday's third-quarter earnings release, with the lending market unwinding sharply and the short score settling at its lowest level in two weeks. The most striking shift…
VGK enters the final days of October with two trends that were absent a week ago: short interest is rebuilding after a month of steady declines, and options traders have pushed their defensive posture to its most…
Nomura Holdings posted its second-quarter results this week and the stock has responded with a 1.6% gain on the day, trimming a 9% monthly decline to leave the shares at JPY 1,439. The earnings event is now behind the…
Barclays is a week removed from its Q3 earnings print, and the story since the results is one of limited conviction on either side: short sellers who had already retreated before the numbers have not returned, while…
