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Eastman Chemical reports again on November 5, just six days after posting its October 30 print, which landed with a 1.7% decline in the shares. The most striking shift since that print is in options positioning. Call…
CRD.B enters its Q3 earnings release today having already told investors a great deal about the quarter. The August print delivered a 13.5% single-day gain, and the stock added another 15.9% over the following five…
Capital Southwest Corporation reports today with borrow availability shrinking sharply and short interest sitting at a meaningful level, even as the stock has rebounded over the past week. The lending market tells the…
Cabot Corporation enters its fiscal fourth-quarter report with short interest at its highest level in over a year, standing out among its closest specialty chemicals peers as the most actively shorted name in the…
AMGN trades near $465, up 4.7% on the week, roughly in line with the median gain of 4.1% across its closest large-cap biotech peers. GILD and VRTX ran harder, adding 9.4% and 6.7% respectively, while BIIB lagged at…
Alamo Group is more heavily shorted than any of its closest peers right now, with short interest at 4.0% of free float. That compares to a median well below 3% across the group that includes OSK, LNN, and FSS. The…
PS is a listed closed-end investment vehicle managed by William Ackman, reporting Q3 2026 results today after a month that saw the stock drop sharply then claw back some ground. The borrow market remains the defining…
KVUE reports Thursday with a Kimberly-Clark acquisition agreed in the background, making the November 6 print less about quarterly operating momentum and more about whether the business holds together cleanly enough to…
Haleon plc reports third-quarter results on November 6 in a notably different market environment than it faced at its last print: the stock has fallen 14% over the past week to $8.76, while short interest has continued…
Corebridge Financial reports Q3 results today, but the most consequential story surrounding the retirement-and-life insurer is not the quarter itself. It is a takeover agreed with Equitable Holdings and what it means…
ELAN reports Q3 results on Thursday with short sellers pulling back sharply, insiders buying, and the analyst community split on whether the animal health company's execution momentum can hold. The most striking…
Equitable Holdings reports Q3 results today with the quarterly print almost beside the point: the agreed acquisition of Corebridge Financial continues to dominate the investment case, setting off index rebalance…
Howmet Aerospace has recovered sharply from its late-October collapse, gaining 9.6% over the past week to close at $212.99, a reversal that puts the November 6 print in an entirely different context from the one…
Johnson Controls International delivered a strong fiscal Q4 print on October 27, jumping nearly 7% on the day, but the stock has since given back ground, falling 6% over the past month to $146.49 and slipping 0.7% over…
Arista Networks enters its Q3 earnings report on November 3 with the stock down 21% over the past month to $164.14, and options traders markedly more cautious than they were four weeks ago. The clearest shift is in…
CNH Industrial heads into its November 6 earnings release with options traders making an unusually aggressive call-side bet, even as short sellers have been walking away from the trade over the past month. The options…
UI arrives at its November 6 earnings release having shed 13% over the past month and 7.6% in the past week alone, a steeper drop than the median peer decline of 1.5% over that same period. The price move is the…
DOC options positioning has shifted more sharply into protective territory than at any point in recent months, even as short sellers have been quietly stepping back from their positions. The put/call ratio jumped to…
UDR, Inc., the apartment REIT that owns and manages around 60,000 homes across coastal and Sun Belt markets, reports Q3 2026 results today with the stock up 8% over the past month and outperforming nearly every…
WTRG reports Q3 results today with the quarterly print almost entirely overshadowed by a pending acquisition from AWK, and the index mechanics that follow from it. The deal context reshapes every positioning metric.…
