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Alerus Financial Corporation reported Q2 results on July 29 with short sellers having spent the past month aggressively rebuilding positions — yet the borrow market and options tape both suggest the bear case remains…
Insperity reported earnings on July 29 and the stock's subsequent move has forced a rapid rethink from the shorts who spent the past month building defensive positioning ahead of that print. The reversal in short…
AXT, Inc. has now delivered its Q2 result — and the market's reaction has been brutal, with the stock falling another 10.7% on July 28 to close at $42.76, extending the week's loss to 24% and the month's to 39%. The…
Teledyne Technologies has settled into a quieter groove after the post-earnings surge, but the most striking development this week isn't the price — it's how aggressively short sellers have unwound since July 22. The…
Target Corporation heads into its August 18 earnings report with short interest quietly rebuilding and options traders showing the most defensive tilt in weeks — even as the stock itself posts a solid bounce. The short…
Sun Communities has delivered its Q2 print and the stock is holding its ground — the question now is whether the post-earnings setup supports a durable re-rating or simply reflects a relief rally in a stock that was…
Steel Dynamics enters the back half of July with a forceful 11.2% weekly gain — but the more interesting question is whether options positioning and analyst conviction have caught up with the price move. The options…
Stanley Black & Decker reported Q2 results on July 29 — and the shorts who spent all of July covering are now rebuilding, adding a sharp intraday twist to what had been a clean pre-earnings derisking story. The…
SWKS heads into the week after earnings with short sellers rebuilding aggressively and virtually every analyst on the Street trimming their price targets on the same morning. The analyst response to Tuesday's results…
Sherwin-Williams delivered a sharp earnings-day reversal on July 28, erasing weeks of underperformance in a single session and forcing a notable rethink from anyone positioned for further disappointment. The move is…
Henry Schein heads into its August 4 earnings report with shorts unwinding, analysts lifting targets, and options traders the most call-heavy they've been in months. Short sellers have been cutting exposure at a…
Stock Yards Bancorp enters its Q2 earnings call on July 31 with a striking disconnect at the centre of the story: the stock trades at $85.42, comfortably above the mean analyst price target of $79, even after a 5% gain…
H2O America has now cleared its July 28 earnings hurdle — and the short side's reaction tells an interesting story about conviction. The earnings print itself landed without drama. The stock added 0.64% on the day,…
Ryder System heads into the back half of the week down 5.3% after Q2 results landed with a thud — a setup where short interest is quietly rebuilding, options traders are becoming less defensive, and the Street has…
ROST heads into its August 20 earnings report with the most striking shift of the past month happening not in short interest — which tells a quiet story — but in options, where the hedging overhang that dominated all…
Robert Half just delivered its Q2 print — and the result validated the bears' core thesis, sending the stock down 13% on July 23 before a partial recovery left it at $39.49, still off 4% on the week. The short interest…
Applied Digital enters the back half of its fiscal year with an uncomfortable gap at its centre: a stock trading at $26.62, a short interest at nearly 25% of float, and a freshly initiated Morgan Stanley coverage note…
RWT heads into the post-earnings week as one of the worst performers in its mortgage REIT peer group, down 7.2% on the week and 5.5% in Tuesday's session alone after reporting Q2 results on July 28. The analyst…
Raymond James Financial has spent the week after its July 22 earnings print doing exactly what the pre-results options positioning dared to hope — the stock has climbed 5.5% to $177.18, and the bears who were already…
RLI has gained 8% this week and 13% over the past month, but the stock's first real test arrives today: Q2 results are in, and the analyst community has split sharply on what they mean. The most consequential move came…
