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Truist Financial enters the back half of September with shorts quietly adding exposure and the Street taking a more cautious tone — a setup worth watching ahead of Q4 earnings on October 16. Short interest has climbed…
AAPL closes the week at $331.34, a few dollars below the post-launch high but still up nearly 5% on the week — and now fractionally above the Street's mean price target of $327.84, a position that frames everything…
AON enters the week with its sharpest one-month drawdown in recent memory — down 14% to $304.67 — while a director spent nearly $4.9 million buying the dip in early September, setting up a direct contest between…
Amphenol enters the week in an uncomfortable position: the stock has shed more than half its value over the past month, yet short sellers are building positions at a pace not seen in recent history — raising questions…
AIG heads into the back half of September with a familiar tension: analysts still see meaningful upside, but the recent pattern of target cuts has quietly eroded confidence in how quickly that gap closes. The options…
AMZN closed Tuesday at $248.42 — down 3.3% on the week and 5.4% over the past month — with options traders now the most defensive they have been all year, even as short sellers continue to quietly reduce exposure. The…
Allstate heads into its October 28 earnings date with a notable divergence: the Street is actively debating the stock's valuation ceiling while corporate insiders have been selling in size. The insider picture is the…
Air Products and Chemicals heads into the week after Q3 earnings with a quiet but telling gap opening up: the stock has drifted 6% lower over the past month to $290.56, yet the Street's average price target remains…
Agnico Eagle Mines heads into its October 28 earnings date with short sellers quietly rebuilding positions and options traders growing more defensive — a notable shift for a stock that has been a steady outperformer in…
Affiliated Managers Group enters the back half of September with a notable internal contradiction: short interest has jumped sharply while the borrow market remains the loosest it has been all year. The short-interest…
AMD has drifted lower from last week's $516 peak to $504, even as the analyst consensus gap remains wide and borrowing costs have fallen sharply — a week where the bears are adding positions but paying almost nothing…
AXTI enters the week of September 15 with a striking contradiction at its core: short sellers are abandoning positions at the fastest pace in months, yet the stock has shed 17% in a week and nearly 30% over the past…
The Iran conflict is reverberating through energy markets. XOM is in focus after political criticism mounted over disruptions to Strait of Hormuz shipping. Oil price volatility is feeding through to US shale names. UBS…
Analysts lifted target prices on NEM today. The consensus average target rose to $133.67 from $132.87. Newmont's $132B market cap reflects gold's strong run in 2026. Short interest sits at just 1.7% of free float —…
CoinShares PLC reports today with a genuinely unusual ownership structure dominating the backdrop: two of its largest shareholders — CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti and director Daniel Masters — have each filed Schedule 13D…
Insiders at several high-profile companies made striking moves in early September. The filings — disclosed this past week — reveal a heavy lean toward selling, with one notable exception. Elastic founder and CTO…
AGMB arrives at its September 17 earnings release after losing more than 22% in a single week — a steep move that frames the print as a critical test of confidence in its fibrotic disease pipeline. The price damage has…
Short sellers hit LCID hardest this week. Lucid Group's SI % of Free Float jumped nearly 15 points in seven days to 49.7%. The EV maker's stock has fallen 21% in three months. Bears see no end to the pain. WOLF is…
Brookfield Asset Management reports Q3 results on September 17 against a backdrop of sharp price weakness and a borrow market that briefly tightened before releasing — a combination that leaves the positioning story…
VFS heads into its September 18 earnings report with the borrow market tightening sharply — a development that has moved materially since the last preview four days ago. The lending picture has deteriorated quickly.…
