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United Bankshares enters the final stretch before its July 24 Q2 earnings with the Street nudging targets higher even as options traders remain more defensive than usual — two signals pointing in different…
UniFirst heads into July with a notable split in its positioning signals — shorts are rebuilding sharply while the borrow market remains among the loosest in the sector. The most striking development this week is in…
TER heads into July with a striking disconnect: the stock just delivered its best month in years, yet short sellers are piling in at a pace not seen in recent memory. The rally is real. Teradyne closed June at $483.84,…
Tenet Healthcare enters its July 24 earnings window with short interest climbing sharply and options traders still leaning defensive — a combination that makes the positioning story more interesting than the price…
Synaptics ends the week with a sharply split picture: shorts are covering at the fastest monthly pace in this cycle, yet options traders remain more defensive than at any point in recent memory, and the analyst…
Southwest Airlines heads into its July 23 Q2 earnings report with a notable shift from last week's note: the defensive options hedging that dominated the prior week has largely unwound, while short sellers have quietly…
Simon Property Group enters July with an unusual divergence: the stock has gained 9% over the past month and trades at $223.65, yet short sellers have been adding positions at an accelerating pace — raising a question…
SLB heads into its July 24 earnings call with the stock down 15% over the past month and a cluster of fresh analyst target cuts arriving the same day as this note. The Street's direction is the most telling signal…
BB has just delivered its biggest weekly gain in recent memory, tacking on 43% to close the week at CAD 17.91 — and the most striking feature of the move is how little the short-selling community appears to have been…
QUALCOMM finds itself in a contradictory position entering July: a wave of analyst upgrades and sharply higher price targets arrived this week even as the stock extended its post-earnings slide, now down 26% over the…
Progress Software just delivered a Q2 earnings beat that sent the stock up 16% on the week — yet the post-print picture is messier than the rally implies. The most telling story is in how the Street responded. Analyst…
Pinnacle West Capital heads into the second half of 2026 with a curious split: the stock is up 7% over the past month and trading near its highest levels in years, yet short sellers have been quietly rebuilding…
Pinnacle Financial Partners heads into its July 15 Q1 earnings print with analyst sentiment accelerating, the stock up 5% on the week, and options traders positioned more bullishly than at any point in recent…
PFE enters July with a notable reversal in the short-selling story — bears have pulled back sharply over the past week, yet the stock has continued sliding, closing at $24.08 after an 8% drop over the past month. The…
PEP heads into its July 9 Q2 earnings print carrying a notable divergence: short interest has jumped sharply over the past month, yet options traders have swung to their most bullish positioning of the past year. The…
PENN Entertainment heads into its July 23 earnings report with the Street turning more constructive at exactly the moment short sellers are rebuilding positions. The analyst angle is the dominant story this week.…
PGC heads into its July 27 earnings date with analyst conviction rising, short interest creeping higher, and insiders sending a notably mixed message. The Street has grown steadily more bullish on Peapack-Gladstone…
PPG Industries heads into its July 28 Q1 results with analysts growing more constructive — even as short sellers quietly rebuild positions and the stock trades just below the Street's mean target. The most striking…
ORCL has stabilised modestly after three weeks of freefall, but the week's most telling detail is that the signals which drove the bearish convergence story are now unwinding — while the stock's peers have recovered…
ON Semiconductor enters the final session of June having snapped back 6.7% on Tuesday — but the week still closed down 19%, the stock is off 22% for the month, and the options market just flashed its most defensive…
