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Two upgrades stand out in the latest analyst activity. ADSK received a consensus upgrade, pushing buy-side recommendations from 31 to 32. The $45.5bn design software maker now has an average target price of…
A secretive billionaire has made one of the year's biggest insider purchases. Kenneth Dart, listed as a main shareholder in EVO, bought nearly $570M worth of shares in Evolution AB on July 21. He followed that with a…
Short sellers are picking their targets carefully this week. Chewy leads the action with a short interest of 52.3% of free float — up 4.6 percentage points in just seven days. That is the biggest weekly jump among…
Fixed Income led all asset classes last week. It pulled in $12.4B net — the biggest haul of any category. That stands in contrast to the 3-month picture, where equities dominated with $694B in net inflows. The…
Bear pressure is intensifying across US consumer and tech stocks. Wolfspeed remains the most extreme case — short interest sits at 75.3% of free float with zero shares available to borrow. The semiconductor maker has…
Options traders are showing clear bearish bias on several names heading into the week. Short interest data from ORTEX reveals where the real conviction sits — and it points to pain in a handful of beaten-down…
Oracle and RH lead the US reporting queue. Both drop Q1 2027 results on Thursday, September 10 after the close. Oracle's print will test whether cloud and AI infrastructure demand kept growing. RH faces softer luxury…
Analysts delivered a split verdict across tech and financials this week. Autodesk received a consensus upgrade, lifting the average target to $315.37. The design software firm carries a $45.5B market cap. Short sellers…
Short sellers moved aggressively this week. Wix.com saw the biggest jump among larger US stocks. Its SI % of free float leapt from 11.5% to 17.8% in just seven days. That's a 6.2 percentage point swing — a clear signal…
ESEA enters September in an uncomfortable spot: short interest has climbed 44% over the past month while every correlated peer in the container shipping space is posting solid weekly gains, leaving Euroseas as the…
Hycroft Mining enters the first week of September with a notable contradiction at its core: short interest remains historically elevated yet has been unwinding meaningfully, while the stock itself slid nearly 5% on the…
FLNC heads into September with the stock down 34% over the past month, a fresh downgrade from a major bank, and short interest locked near 20% of the float — a setup that puts the next earnings date firmly in the…
GOOGL has extended its slide to $338.46, down another 2.3% on the week and 10.4% over the past month, as the market waits on a Q3 print due October 20 — and the positioning data offers little to explain or amplify the…
136 — China Ruyi Holdings — enters the week with its first meaningful shift in the lending market in over a month: availability has doubled off its floor, the stock bounced 11% on Thursday, and yet the short score…
NCH2 closed Thursday at €7.96, up just over 1% on the week — a modest stabilisation that masks a borrow market still running at extreme stress, even as the most acute pressure begins, very slightly, to abate. The…
Airbnb heads into the second week of September cooling off from a remarkable earnings-driven rally, with the stock's ownership structure now the most telling story in the data. The founder angle is hard to ignore this…
AST SpaceMobile has swung back into its most familiar position — stock up on the week, borrow market nearly locked, and a 21% short float that shows no sign of retreating. The lending market re-froze faster than it…
AAPL on the Toronto Stock Exchange heads into the week of September 6 with a split personality: short positions in the Canadian listing have continued to build, yet the cost of borrowing those shares has quietly pulled…
Options markets are flashing caution signals across tech as a cluster of major software earnings loom this week. NVIDIA, Micron Technology, Tesla, and Advanced Micro Devices attracted the highest negative options bets…
Earnings anxiety is driving positioning across all asset classes this week. Short sellers, options traders, and insiders are all moving in the same direction — into defensive trades ahead of a packed calendar. The…
