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Repligen Corporation is the laggard in its peer group this week, dropping 1.7% while the median of its closest correlated names gained 6.9%, and that gap opens up into a quarterly earnings release scheduled for…
CenterPoint Energy has just delivered its sharpest weekly gain of the recent period, up 4.3% to $41.97, and the post-earnings analyst response tells most of the story. The Street moved quickly after the print. TD Cowen…
Public Storage reports Q3 results on Thursday October 30, and the stock has already done the running: up 3.5% on the week to $312.47, outpacing the median gain of around 1.4% for its closest peers and extending a…
Prudential Financial enters its November 3 earnings date with short sellers pulling back modestly from last week's year-long high, while a broad wave of analyst target cuts has pushed the consensus price well below…
Principal Financial Group reported Q3 results on October 29, and the setup going in told a clear story: short sellers had been cutting exposure for six weeks, options traders were relaxed, and analysts had spent…
Polaris Inc. makes powersports vehicles, ATVs, and off-road machines, and it delivered its third-quarter earnings on October 27 into a market that had spent the prior week building short positions against it. The stock…
ConocoPhillips closed at $147.96 on Tuesday, down 2.3% on the day but still up 1.4% over the past week, as three datasets moved in the same direction eight days before its November 5 quarterly results. The sharpest…
PNR is the rare industrial stock where the biggest news of the week happened on the first day of it: a 13% single-day gain after Q3 results landed on October 27, capping an 18% weekly rise to $62.29 and turning two…
Peapack-Gladstone Financial has just published its Q3 earnings and the stock is holding near multi-month highs, yet the short-side conviction that built into the print has not unwound. Short interest tells the most…
Park National Corporation reported Q3 earnings on October 26, and the stock's muted post-print reaction has left shorts holding their positions rather than retreating, a setup worth watching as the next catalyst is now…
PCAR has slipped to $103.73 after yesterday's Q3 release, down 5.8% on the week, and the question now is whether the pre-earnings call-heavy options positioning was vindicated or simply wrong-footed by the print. The…
PPL Corporation has drawn a flurry of new analyst coverage this week, even as options traders hold onto the most defensive positioning the stock has seen in twelve months. The analyst activity is the most newsworthy…
PPG Industries gained 4.4% over the past week while the median move among its closest specialty chemicals peers was less than half a percent, with SHW falling 3% and RPM losing 1.7%. PPG's own number is 3.2% of the…
ORCL reported fiscal Q1 results on October 28, closing the day up 3.5% to $130.53, a welcome break from a seven-week decline that had taken the stock from $162.52 in early September to a low of $125.54 on October 22.…
ONEOK has just delivered its Q3 earnings report, and the setup heading into the print proved accurate: shorts at multi-month lows, borrow conditions deeply relaxed, and a stock that added 3.4% on the week to…
Old Dominion Freight Line reported today with the market already pricing in a tough freight environment. Now a second story is emerging alongside the earnings reaction: the stock sits 0.3% below the exit line for the…
OGE Energy Corp. reported earnings this morning, with the stock up 2.9% on the week to $48.91, a performance that broadly matched its regulated utility peers and arrived after the most heavily shorted period of the…
NVIDIA closed Tuesday at $217.94, up less than 1% on the day and roughly 0.7% on the week, a recovery from the $210.96 low reported in Monday's stock note but still lagging the 1.5% median gain posted by its closest…
Nucor delivered a strong Q3 result last week, and the stock has responded with its best two-day run in months, leaving analysts scrambling to update numbers that now look too conservative. The stock closed Tuesday at…
NiSource filed its third-quarter results today with short sellers already in retreat, analyst coverage freshly expanded, and options traders showing no sign of concern. The pre-earnings short build documented in…
