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DTRK's short score eases as shorts retreat

DTRK closed the week at $0.3625, up nearly 17% on Wednesday alone, with the short landscape quietly retreating from what had been a more crowded setup a month ago. Short interest has been the dominant story across the…

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Dassault Systèmes: Short sellers rebuild after in-line Q1

DAST.Y heads into the back half of April carrying a rare combination — an earnings beat that guided lower, a stock up 15% on the month, and a short book that has been rapidly rebuilt from its lows. The most striking…

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DHR: Analysts Trim Targets as Shorts Double Down

Danaher heads into its May 5 earnings call with a notable and quickening contradiction: short sellers have been piling in at a pace not seen this cycle, yet the analyst community is holding its bullish line even as it…

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DTE Energy Reports Today — Analysts Divided Ahead of Q1 Print

DTE Energy walks into its Q1 2026 earnings call this morning with the Street leaning bullish but showing clear signs of selectivity, arriving at a price — $147.03 — that has barely moved in a month but sits below most…

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KINS Shorts Halve Into Earnings

Kingstone Companies heads into its May 7 Q1 earnings call with short sellers in full retreat — and options traders swinging hard to the bullish side. The short covering story is the week's headline. SI % FF dropped…

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D-BOX shorts rebuild while an insider walks

D-BOX Technologies heads into May with a curious split: short sellers quietly rebuilt positions through April while the stock gained 9% on the month, and a key insider was simultaneously cutting their stake at prices…

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EQ Inc. turns profitable as shorts quietly retreat

EQ Inc. dropped a headline on April 27: a profitable fourth quarter and 28% sequential revenue growth for the 2025 year-end. The stock barely moved. That tension — a company hitting an operational inflection while the…

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LadRx: A Micro-Cap Shell With More Questions Than Answers

LADX enters the final days of April as one of the stranger stories in the OTC universe — a stock trading at penny-level prices, with a reported +855% weekly price surge, yet carrying the hallmarks of a largely dormant…

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Century Lithium eyes Tonopah as short interest collapses

LCE enters the final days of April with a concrete operational catalyst — and a short interest picture that has dramatically quieted after weeks of volatile positioning. The story this week belongs to the demonstration…

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Cummins eyes earnings with bulls lifting targets

CMI heads into its May 5 Q1 results with analyst conviction running higher than the stock itself — a gap worth watching as the earnings date approaches. The Street has been busy revising upward. Multiple firms raised…

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Culp insiders cluster-buy as stock rebounds 19%

A wave of insider buying at CULP over the past six weeks has coincided with the sharpest price recovery the micro-cap textile maker has seen in months. The buying cluster is the most notable feature of the current…

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Cuisine Solutions: A Quiet OTC Name With Stale Data

CUSI is a small packaged-foods company trading on the OTC Pink Sheets at $19.85, up just over 1% on the week. The story here is less about any active market narrative and more about a thinly traded micro-cap where…

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CFR: Shorts Retreat Ahead of Q1 Earnings Print

Cullen/Frost Bankers enters its Q1 2026 earnings call on April 30 with shorts unwinding sharply, options leaning bullish, and the Street split between cautious neutrals and a persistent Underweight from Morgan…

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Crown Holdings Dips After Earnings as Street Trims Targets

Crown Holdings just reported its Q1 2026 results — and the market's verdict has been a measured step back. The stock ended April 29 at $99.02, down 2.8% on the week and briefly breaking below the $100 level that served…

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AMEN Properties Pays Out as Short Sellers Return

AMEN Properties is a rare beast in the OTC market this week — a micro-cap oil and gas royalty company trading near $496 per share that just paid a special dividend and is simultaneously drawing fresh short interest for…

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CRT's Largest Holder Keeps Buying the Dip

Cross Timbers Royalty Trust enters May with one story dominating all others: its largest shareholder has been buying shares nearly every trading day this month, at a pace that dwarfs anything else happening with the…

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