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Bears have been stepping back from the EWW iShares MSCI Mexico ETF at a meaningful pace, even as options traders show growing caution about the near-term outlook. Short interest has fallen to 7.3% of free float, down…
EWC, the iShares MSCI Canada ETF, enters the final days of October with the short-interest picture that dominated last week's note now moving in the opposite direction. The reversal in short positioning is the week's…
DIA is flat on the week at $523.28, and the divergence flagged in last week's note has sharpened further: options traders remain more defensive than usual while the lending market has loosened to its roomiest level in…
FormFactor enters its October 28 earnings release with short sellers having cut their positions at one of the steepest rates of the past year, even as the stock itself is down about 1% on the week. Short interest…
RUSH.A reported Q3 results on October 27 against a positioning backdrop that had shifted abruptly in the preceding 48 hours, with short interest spiking into the print while options traders stayed firmly in the bull…
Flex Ltd. has dropped sharply over the past month, shedding 27% to close at $83.35 on October 27, even as an 8.3% bounce on Tuesday offered a brief reprieve. The stock is down 4.7% on the week, lagging most of its…
Royal Caribbean delivered a strong Q3 earnings print on October 27, and the market's reaction was immediate: the stock jumped 5.5% on the day to close at $295.92, adding to a 22% gain over the past month and capping a…
RDWR entered its earnings day riding a 21% weekly gain, with retail attention at multi-month highs and the CTO selling into the strength. The most striking data point this week is not in the lending market or the…
RenaissanceRe Holdings reported third-quarter results on October 28 with the stock already down 3.7% on the week, a sharper slide than almost any name in its peer group. Short interest at RNR is modest but has been…
GRMN reports Q3 results this morning, and the week's most interesting tension is the gap between what options traders signalled going in and how little conviction the short side has shown. The options caution flagged…
DMC reports Thursday with the stock down 7% over the past month and options positioning shifting notably more cautious ahead of the print. The clearest signal this week is in the options market. The put/call ratio has…
Arch Capital Group closed Tuesday at $100.34, down 2% on the day after reporting Q3 results, with short interest now at its highest level in at least a year at 2.5% of the free float. The short build has been the…
Woodward heads into its November 23 earnings down 8% in a month, with options positioning now less bullish than a week ago and short interest ticking up from its floor, yet the borrow market still offering almost no…
Whirlpool reported earnings on October 26 and the response from the Street has been swift and unanimous: every analyst who has filed since the print has cut their target, and the question now is less about the quarter…
Western Digital gained 4.5% this week to $380.88, a sharp contrast to its closest peers: STX fell 1.1% and SNDK dropped 4.4%. That outperformance is notable given WDC dropped 9.2% after its October 22 print. The stock…
Werner Enterprises reported earnings on October 28, and the stock's 3.7% bounce on the day suggests traders found something to hold onto, even after a month of aggressive analyst downgrades. The options market had been…
Waste Management reported Q3 results on October 27 and the stock's most interesting story is not what happened on the print, but what happened to positioning heading into it and where the analyst debate now sits…
W. P. Carey sits in a more crowded corner of the net-lease REIT space than most of its closest peers right now, with short interest at 4.5% of the free float. That is a meaningful gap above comparable names: EPRT…
Vulcan Materials reaches its Q3 earnings date on October 29 with the most dramatic short-covering of the past year compressing positioning to a 12-month low, even as analysts spent October ratcheting targets lower. The…
VTR fell 4.7% on October 27 to close at $83.34, the sharpest single-day drop among the larger healthcare REITs, and the week's 3.6% decline stands out against a median loss of roughly 0.4% across its closest peers. The…
