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Valero Energy slid 10.6% on the week to $387.34, roughly in line with a broad refining sector selloff, yet the short-side data continues to move in the opposite direction from what the price action might suggest. Among…
VSE Corporation drops into its Q3 earnings release tonight with short interest at an 11-month high and the stock down 18% over the past month, a setup that puts the execution story squarely in focus. Short positions…
V.F. Corporation has now delivered its earnings, the event the pre-report note framed as the key test, and the market's reaction so far looks more restrained than the analyst re-rating implied it should. The stock…
Universal Health Services has delivered its Q3 results and the market's verdict was swift: the bullish options positioning that dominated the lead-up to earnings has collapsed, replaced by a 4.5% drop on the day to…
UnitedHealth Group stands out this week not because of what the short book is doing, but because of what it just did: after 18 sessions frozen at 15.95 million shares, shorts cut their position by 12% in a single…
United Therapeutics stands apart from its closest peers this week: while the median correlated name fell 1.8%, UTHR climbed 6.7% to $591.20, driven by a short position that collapsed rather than held. The short squeeze…
RTX Corporation sits just above $194 this week, a dollar higher than last Tuesday's close but with the Street divided on whether the post-earnings rally has further legs. The analyst picture is the most telling data…
UPS delivered its Q3 results on October 27 and the market responded with the stock's strongest weekly gain in months, rising 7.7% to $106.09, with analysts immediately revising targets higher in the wake of the…
UMB Financial has just reported Q3 results, and with earnings out of the way, the conversation shifts to a mechanical catalyst that could move more money than any quarterly beat or miss: a potential Russell index…
Trustmark Corporation reported its Q3 results today against a backdrop where the short interest story that dominated the pre-earnings note has already begun to reverse. Short sellers had driven the position up nearly…
Thomson Reuters enters its November 3 earnings release with an awkward backdrop: the stock fell 4.5% on October 27 even as it holds a 3.2% gain on the week, and its controlling shareholder has been a steady net seller…
Short sellers have added aggressively to their positions in TEX this week. Short interest climbed 29% over the past five sessions to reach 12.4% of the free float, the highest level recorded in at least a year, and the…
TER posted its quarterly results on October 28, and short sellers spent the preceding week unwinding positions that had been building since mid-September, with the stock bouncing 4.8% on the day even as the monthly…
Sun Communities reported Q3 results on October 28 with the stock already down 4.1% from earlier in the week, having reversed a pre-earnings rally and closed at $114.97, a 3.7% loss on the week against a median gain of…
SCL enters earnings week with its options market flashing a more defensive tone than usual, even as the stock quietly posts a modest weekly gain. The clearest tension is in options. The put/call ratio has climbed to…
Sherwin-Williams reported Q3 results on October 27 and promptly gave back 3% over the following session, reversing the call-buying optimism that had built ahead of the print and leaving the stock down roughly 3% on the…
Shenandoah Telecommunications Company enters its Q3 earnings print tomorrow carrying two compounding pressures: short interest has jumped nearly 19% in a week, and ORTEX puts the odds of deletion from multiple MSCI…
Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida is a Florida-focused regional bank that reported Q3 results on October 28, against a backdrop of its most heavily shorted position in at least a year and a stock that has quietly…
SCHW has lost another 1.7% over the past week to $89.30, underperforming the median gain of 0.8% among its closest peers, as options traders grow more cautious and the Street continues to trim its expectations…
Sify Technologies heads into the final days of October with a sharp weekly gain and an ownership structure that makes most positioning metrics secondary to one dominant fact. The stock rose 6.5% on the week to close at…
