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BMRN shorts rebuild as Q1 earnings loom

BioMarin Pharmaceutical heads into its May 4 Q1 earnings report with short sellers at their most committed in months — a notable shift for a stock where positioning had been relatively relaxed for much of the first…

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BKYI Reverse Split Masks a Stock in Free Fall

BIO-key International closed Tuesday at $4.69, down 9% on the day and 26% over the past week — and the move is not just a bad tape story. The proximate cause is a pair of corporate developments that landed in quick…

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BCRX Shorts Rebuild as Q1 Earnings Loom

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals heads into its May 4 Q1 earnings call with short sellers rebuilding positions at pace — and options traders turning more defensive than at any point in recent memory. The week's most striking…

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Bio-Rad Heads Into Q1 Print With Shorts in Retreat

Bio-Rad Laboratories reports Q1 2026 results after the close tomorrow, April 30. The stock is down 8.6% on the week to $279.34, falling harder than most peers. The setup heading into the print is defined by one clear…

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USIO shorts unwind ahead of May earnings

Usio, the Nasdaq-listed payments micro-cap, heads into its May 13 earnings call with one of the most dramatic short position unwinds of the past six weeks — yet the borrow market tells a more complicated story…

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BHP enters earnings week as shorts rebuild and borrow tightens

BHP heads into its May 3 production report with short sellers meaningfully rebuilding positions and the borrow market running at full stretch — a notable setup for a stock that has quietly recovered 12% over the past…

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BBY Drops 11% in a Week as Tariff Fears Bite

Best Buy has shed 11.2% in a single week, closing at $59.11 — its lowest level in months — as consumer electronics retailers bear the brunt of renewed tariff anxiety and softening big-ticket demand. The week's move…

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PWER Chairman Buys the Dip as Project Pipeline Expands

Global Power Solutions Corp. heads into late April with a chairman quietly accumulating shares near multi-month lows while the company fires out a string of project announcements — a combination that sets up an…

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WRB shorts pull back as Street debates valuation ceiling

W. R. Berkley Corporation heads into the final days of April with a notable divergence: short sellers have been cutting positions sharply while a wave of post-earnings analyst activity paints a more cautious picture of…

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DIV's Borrow Costs Ease Sharply Into Q1 Results

Diversified Royalty Corp. enters its May 11 Q1 2026 earnings window with the borrow market loosening fast — a notable shift after weeks of elevated short-selling costs that had made the stock one of the more expensive…

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BHE Races Ahead as Peers Stumble

Benchmark Electronics enters the week of April 28 with a striking divergence from its peers — the stock up 4% on the week to $68.81, even as most of the electronic manufacturing services group traded lower. The peer…

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BLOK Digital surges 29% with earnings on the horizon

BLOK Digital Ltd. has turned heads this week with a sharp price jump — the kind of move that raises more questions than it answers for a thinly traded micro-cap with a corporate event approaching. The stock gained…

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Belmont Borrow Cost Doubles as Stock Slips to 3 Cents

BEA, the TSXV-listed micro-cap explorer, heads into the week with its cost to borrow surging even as the shares lose a quarter of their value over the past month. The most striking data point this week is the cost to…

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Becker Milk's Quiet Borrow Surge Has an Asterisk

BEK.B doubled its short position on paper this week — but the real story is how little any of it means at this scale. Estimated short interest nearly doubled in a single session on April 28, jumping from roughly 159…

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Bebe Stores Slips Quietly With Shorts Retreating

BDST — bebe stores, inc. — is a micro-cap OTC apparel name trading at $0.35, up 17% on the week and 9% over the past month. But the headline price move masks a thin and lightly followed stock where nearly every data…

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BZH Heading Into Earnings With Shorts Retreating

Beazer Homes USA reports Q2 fiscal 2026 results after the bell on April 30 — and the stock arrives with a genuinely mixed set-up: short sellers have been unwinding steadily this week, options traders are leaning mildly…

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