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Among the large environmental and facilities services names, RTO carries a relatively modest short position compared with more crowded peers in pest control. Short interest on the NYSE-listed ADR has climbed roughly…
YPF shares have lost 11% over the past month and another 7% in Monday's session alone, pulling the Argentine oil producer to $43.85 ahead of its November 6 quarterly print. That move has widened the gap to the analyst…
WMB fell 4.3% on Monday to $71.19, its sharpest one-day drop in recent weeks, yet options traders have swung to their most call-heavy stance of the past year heading into today's earnings release. The options shift is…
SNN drops its third-quarter numbers on Thursday with two unusually concrete data points framing the result: a short position that collapsed nearly 19% in a week, a move that sits two standard deviations below the…
Republic Services is the least-shorted name in its peer group heading into Thursday's print, with short interest at 1.4% of the free float while closest rivals Waste Management and Waste Connections carry more…
RELX enters Thursday's results as one of the least-shorted names in European-listed information services, a contrast worth spelling out before the print. Among its closest structural peers, short positioning against…
Realty Income Corporation reports Q3 results on November 4, a net-lease REIT that has spent the past six weeks watching analysts cut price targets while the stock quietly recovered from its October lows to $57.58. The…
Public Service Enterprise Group, the New Jersey electric and gas utility, releases Q3 results today after a week in which short sellers made an unusually large exit and call buying rose to near its most dominant level…
PPL Corporation, the Pennsylvania-Kentucky-Rhode Island regulated utility, reports third-quarter results on Thursday after a week in which the shares gained 3.5%, modestly outpacing the median 2.7% advance among its…
McDonald's rose 5.9% over the past week to $265.64, outpacing a median gain of roughly 2.4% across its closest restaurant peers and extending a 14.6% gain over the past month. That recovery puts the stock well ahead of…
Humana reports third-quarter results on Thursday, and the most striking development in the run-up is not the stock's modest 5.7% monthly recovery to $410.41, but the sudden acceleration in bearish positioning over the…
HMC reports second-quarter earnings on November 6 with its own registration data pointing to weakness in its most important home market. Japan car sales tracked by the Japan Automobile Dealers Association (自販連) have…
BEN carries short interest of 3.3% of free float, the lightest short position among its closest asset management peers heading into Thursday's fiscal fourth-quarter print. Closest competitor IVZ draws considerably…
EOG Resources drops into its November 6 earnings report with the whole upstream sector in retreat, yet shedding less ground than most of its peers. The sector-wide pressure is the context here. EOG fell 4.6% on Monday…
Short interest in BRK.A has climbed nearly 76% since early October, yet the borrow market remains one of the most frictionless in the US large-cap universe, a split that frames Thursday's Q3 results in an unusual…
Among diversified bank ADRs, Banco de Chile now carries one of the more actively building short positions heading into its November 6 results, even though the absolute level remains modest relative to the float. Short…
Meta Platforms is carrying fresh legal risk this morning. A UK court ruled against Meta, TikTok and X over their refusal to hand over social media safety data. Meta's 14-day RSI sits at 33, deep in oversold territory.…
Micron Technology tops the options market's negative-flow list this week. The semiconductor giant leads both sides of the ledger, drawing the heaviest put and call bets in the US market over the past seven days. That…
Ferrari opens the week today. Austrian car registration data, which leads Ferrari revenue by 22 days, is running 75% below last year's quarter. That is a weak-fit signal, but it points to caution heading into the…
Howmet Aerospace stands out in today's analyst activity. The company received an upgrade, with the consensus target price jumping from $296.29 to $306.75. That is a notable move for an aerospace components maker that…
