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Options traders are making bold pre-earnings bets this week. Several names are drawing unusual activity as results season heats up. YEXT stands out most. Bulls loaded calls ahead of the company's September print. The…
GameStop reports Monday with short interest still elevated at 13.4% of the free float — yet the most striking feature of Friday's close is how much the defensive armour has been removed. The options story has inverted…
The final week of August brings a slate of high-profile earnings. Markets will be watching closely across tech, healthcare, and consumer sectors. Monday (Today) is quiet. The action starts Monday night with PetroChina…
MiniMed Group heads into its September 1 earnings release with one notable shift since the last note: the lending market has partially loosened, even as options traders remain unusually defensive. The most meaningful…
Rezolve AI heads into its September 1 earnings report with a notable shift in positioning — short sellers have retreated meaningfully over the past week, yet the borrow market and options desk remain far from…
FRNM heads into its September 1 debut earnings event carried by a wave of fresh analyst endorsements and a stock that has already re-rated sharply higher. The analyst story is the most striking feature of the setup.…
YEXT heads into its September 1 earnings report with options traders making one of the most aggressively bullish bets seen in the past year — a striking contrast to a stock that has spent most of 2026 under…
Autodesk grabbed the most analyst attention Friday. UBS raised its target to $325 from $290. BNP Paribas followed with a move to $300 from $295. Wells Fargo lifted Workday to $225 from $215, keeping a Buy rating. But…
HealthEquity heads into its September 1 earnings report with options traders suddenly far more defensive than the prior month's positioning would suggest. The sharpest signal is in the options market. The put/call…
SAIC reports fiscal Q2 results on August 31 against a backdrop of sharply rising short interest, elevated put/call positioning, and a Street that remains mostly on the sidelines. The most notable development in the…
Palo Alto Networks heads into its September 1 earnings report with a stock that has rebounded sharply from its post-August-17-print lows — yet still lags a cybersecurity peer group that has gone parabolic. The peer…
Dell Technologies approaches its September 1 earnings report with the most consistent analyst upgrade cycle seen in months — yet the stock pulled back 3.4% on Friday, leaving it at $456.24 despite a 16% gain over the…
NIO arrives at its September 1 earnings release with the borrow market tightening back up, even as options positioning has grown less extreme than earlier in the week. Availability has drifted back down to roughly 23%…
Bill Gates filed new purchases this week. He bought $88M worth of RSG (Republic Services) shares across two trades on August 21 and 24. That's a bullish bet on the waste management giant from one of the world's richest…
HPE heads into its September 1 earnings release with a split picture: options markets growing more cautious even as short sellers quietly step back. The most notable shift in positioning is in options. The put/call…
Medtronic heads into its September 1 earnings report with the analyst community more constructive than it has been in months — a sharp contrast to a stock that is still finding its footing. The most telling…
SUNB enters its September 1 earnings release with a notably mixed setup: short sellers have been adding positions aggressively, yet options traders are the most bullish they have been all year. The most striking…
ITUB reports on September 2 with short sellers meaningfully pulling back from the stock — the clearest positioning story heading into the print. The retreat in bearish positioning is striking in scale. Short interest…
Short sellers are on the move. Data as of August 27 shows meaningful shifts across biotech, tech, and beyond. CAPR (Capricor Therapeutics) leads the weekly movers. SI % of free float jumped to 45.6%, up from 36.4% just…
AutoZone heads into its September 1 fiscal Q4 earnings report with options traders more cautious than usual, even as short sellers continue to reduce positions. The clearest pre-earnings signal is in the options…
