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Freedom Capital Markets lifted FormFactor to Buy from Hold on Monday, setting a $140 price target. That implies 60% upside from the $87.53 close on October 30, a striking call given the stock has fallen 36% over the…
Deutsche Bank cut NVS to Sell from Hold on October 30, the first outright bearish rating from a major bank since Goldman Sachs downgraded to Sell in September 2025. The stock gained 3.2% that day anyway. It has risen…
Why this matters: Convergence signals are rare. Three or more independent ORTEX data streams must align on the same stock within days of each other. The week of 26 October produced one of the busiest convergence…
Sentiment read: Options markets leaned defensively for the week of October 26. Earnings-driven put buying was the dominant theme, with multiple names hitting 52-week PCR highs ahead of results. A handful of exceptions…
The street turned decisively negative this week. Downgrades outnumbered upgrades by a wide margin across the five trading days from October 26. Intel drew the most analyst attention, collecting multiple cuts in a…
The week of 26 October brought a dramatic spike in short activity across gold, semiconductors, and crypto-linked equities. GLD short interest nearly doubled in seven days, SOXX shorts hit 26.3% of float, and XRP saw an…
The week in one paragraph: The final week of October delivered a brutal earnings gauntlet. More than 200 companies reported, producing sharp dispersions, outsized short covering, and a surge of analyst re-ratings. INTC…
The week ahead in one paragraph: Apple headlines today after the close, carrying a market cap above $5 trillion and the weight of the entire mega-cap earnings season on its shoulders. The semiconductor sector enters…
Ondas (ONDS) is the most shorted US stock above $2B, with 47.7% of its free float sold short, or 5.2 days of average volume to buy back; that has moved +3.3 pts on the week. New to the top 15 this week: Under Armour…
AAPL reports after the close today. With a market cap above $5 trillion, it is the single most-watched print of the week. PLTR also reports today. Palantir has been one of the S&P 500's best performers this year, and…
EVgo dominated options desks Monday after LS Power Equity Advisors agreed to acquire the EV charging firm for $2 per share. The deal effectively caps upside and makes existing call options worthless above the offer…
Short sellers added most to Hilton Grand Vacations (HGV): short interest rose 2.2 points in a session to 17.9% of free float, the highest reading in at least a year, while the stock gained 7.1% over the week. The…
AAPL reports today after the close. It is the biggest print of the week. The company carries a market cap above $5 trillion. PLTR also reports today. The data-analytics firm has been one of the year's best-performing…
Wall Street made two sharp calls on Monday, cutting price targets on Fair Isaac Corporation while raising them on Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. The consensus target on FICO fell to $897 from $937. That is a $40 drop in a…
Bausch + Lomb jumped 14.5% last week after a 15.8% post-earnings pop on 28 October. HC Wainwright responded on 2 November by cutting the stock to Neutral from Buy, raising its target to $22 from $21 while the shares…
Sprouts Farmers Market reported Q3 earnings on October 29. The stock fell 25% the following day. Short interest sits at 12.6% of the free float, still up 1.8% over the past month despite a 6.7% single-day pullback in…
Why this matters: Coinbase has absorbed a wave of post-earnings target cuts without a single downgrade, until now. Morgan Stanley's move today breaks that pattern and arrives as the stock trades 25% below where most…
The most recent insider data available from ORTEX covers filings through 8 September 2026. US EDGAR first-party tables were unavailable for this query, so the findings below draw on non-US vendor data only. The…
Short sellers turned notably more aggressive on a handful of mid-cap names in the week to 29 October, with WOLF and CBRS leading the charge. Wolfspeed remains the standout target among names with real market heft. Its…
A convergence of three distinct signals is building around WCN (Waste Connections). Short positions hit a one-year high just days after the company posted a record buyback quarter. Retail attention has spiked to 3.76…
