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Analysts are divided on two enterprise software names this weekend, with Autodesk drawing bullish upgrades while Workday faces a conflicting pair of calls. Three firms raised price targets on Autodesk in rapid…
Bill Gates spent over $207M buying RSG shares this past week. Filings disclosed on August 26 showed the Microsoft co-founder snapping up Republic Services stock across multiple days. He paid around $222 per share. It…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week on a handful of names. KVYO saw the biggest move among mid-caps. Klaviyo's SI % of FF surged to 19.9%, up from 13.0% just seven days ago — a near-7 percentage point jump. The…
SNOW enters its September 2 earnings event in a markedly different posture than it held a week ago — shorts have been unwinding steadily, analyst targets are running well above the current price, and options…
BF.A arrives at its September 2 earnings release having given back most of the gains that preceded the August 26 print — a reset that makes the upcoming report a second chance to prove the bull case. The options market…
Short sellers and options traders are aligned on semiconductors. NVDA leads negative options bets by raw dollar volume despite a 16.7% YTD gain. MU — up 226% this year — tops the negative options flow table as traders…
Analysts are sending mixed signals on WDAY after a week of clashing calls. Freedom Broker downgraded the HR software firm from Buy to Hold. Wells Fargo moved the other way. Michael Turrin raised his target to $225 from…
Insider selling pressure hit NSSC hard this week. Founder, Chairman, and CEO Richard Soloway filed two large sell trades on August 28. Combined, he offloaded $16.5M worth of shares over just two days — 379,529 shares…
Short sellers have been busy this week. Data as of August 27 shows some sharp moves across popular names. Klaviyo saw the biggest surge among mid-caps. SI % of FF jumped nearly 7 percentage points in seven days,…
US equity ETFs bled $8.8B last week. That is the headline number. But look past the home market, and the picture shifts sharply toward international exposure and active management. Japan is the standout winner of the…
Options bears are piling into semiconductor names. NVDA leads negative options bets by raw dollar volume this week. MU tops the bearish flow table after a 226% year-to-date run. Traders appear to be locking in…
Vivmark Residential enters the final days of August with a notable divergence: a cluster of senior insiders building fresh positions even as the stock drifts lower and shorts maintain conviction. The institutional…
Applied Aerospace & Defense has entered a sharp downward spiral this week, with short sellers aggressively adding positions even as the stock trades nearly a third below its recent highs — the core tension being…
301677 — Zhejiang Xinxing Tools Co., Ltd. — heads into the final stretch of August with a quiet but notable tension: the stock nudged higher on the week, yet the ownership structure reveals a company still tightly…
Options markets are flashing bearish signals in pockets of the market. Chip stocks and defense names are drawing the most defensive positioning right now. DRS — Leonardo DRS — sold off hard Friday while peers like LHX,…
Core Scientific is caught between a sell-side consensus that still sees the stock roughly doubling from here and a short position that won't budge — and the price keeps falling. The data published earlier today…
ZGN enters its September 3 results with a notable shift underway in how the market is positioned — short sellers have pulled back sharply this week even as the stock itself drifts lower, creating an unusual divergence…
SoFi Technologies closed Friday at $18.06, down nearly 6% on the day and 4.5% on the week — reversing course after the previous note described a stock that had just reclaimed $19 and shaken off its most bearish…
Leonardo DRS has dropped 21% over the past month to $38.54 — a sharper drawdown than most of its defense peers — while the fundamental case remains intact and short sellers are actually retreating. The sector context…
Clover Health Investments heads into the week of August 29 with its most persistent internal tension unchanged — sell-side targets keep rising, short sellers keep retreating, and every insider who has filed a form in…
