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MSA Safety reports Q3 results today with options positioning notably more cautious than it has been for most of the past year. The clearest pre-print signal is in the options market. The put/call ratio climbed to 0.92,…
Marriott International shares have already done a lot of work before Thursday's Q3 results, rising 16% over the past month to $416.30, up another 5.5% on the week and outpacing the median gain of 3.1% among its closest…
MKS Inc. reports Q3 results on November 4 with options positioning flashing the most pronounced defensive tilt seen in months, even as the lending market shows no sign of structural short pressure. The clearest signal…
Lattice Semiconductor makes low-power FPGAs used in servers, industrial equipment and edge computing. It reports Q3 results on November 5, arriving at that date down 29% over the past month, with the stock closing at…
CSR heads into its November 3 earnings print as a stock in transition, with short sellers building positions aggressively into a name that may not exist as an independent company much longer. The most striking shift in…
HSTM trades at $34.58 heading into its November 3 earnings release, slightly ahead of most of its closest healthcare technology peers over the past week, down 0.8% against a median decline of around 1.5% for names…
Ryman Hospitality Properties reports third-quarter results today against a backdrop of rising short interest and a recent analyst downgrade, even as the stock trades near its highest levels of the year. Short positions…
Fortis Inc., Canada's largest investor-owned utility, posts its latest quarterly results today against a backdrop of rising share prices and a lending market that suggests little appetite for betting against the…
Fiserv reports Q3 results today against a backdrop that looks more charged than the positioning data alone would suggest: short sellers have been cutting exposure sharply even as analysts have turned increasingly…
Eastman Chemical reports again on November 5, just six days after posting its October 30 print, which landed with a 1.7% decline in the shares. The most striking shift since that print is in options positioning. Call…
CRD.B enters its Q3 earnings release today having already told investors a great deal about the quarter. The August print delivered a 13.5% single-day gain, and the stock added another 15.9% over the following five…
Capital Southwest Corporation reports today with borrow availability shrinking sharply and short interest sitting at a meaningful level, even as the stock has rebounded over the past week. The lending market tells the…
Cabot Corporation enters its fiscal fourth-quarter report with short interest at its highest level in over a year, standing out among its closest specialty chemicals peers as the most actively shorted name in the…
AMGN trades near $465, up 4.7% on the week, roughly in line with the median gain of 4.1% across its closest large-cap biotech peers. GILD and VRTX ran harder, adding 9.4% and 6.7% respectively, while BIIB lagged at…
Alamo Group is more heavily shorted than any of its closest peers right now, with short interest at 4.0% of free float. That compares to a median well below 3% across the group that includes OSK, LNN, and FSS. The…
PS is a listed closed-end investment vehicle managed by William Ackman, reporting Q3 2026 results today after a month that saw the stock drop sharply then claw back some ground. The borrow market remains the defining…
KVUE reports Thursday with a Kimberly-Clark acquisition agreed in the background, making the November 6 print less about quarterly operating momentum and more about whether the business holds together cleanly enough to…
Haleon plc reports third-quarter results on November 6 in a notably different market environment than it faced at its last print: the stock has fallen 14% over the past week to $8.76, while short interest has continued…
Corebridge Financial reports Q3 results today, but the most consequential story surrounding the retirement-and-life insurer is not the quarter itself. It is a takeover agreed with Equitable Holdings and what it means…
ELAN reports Q3 results on Thursday with short sellers pulling back sharply, insiders buying, and the analyst community split on whether the animal health company's execution momentum can hold. The most striking…
