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HP Inc. heads into its November 24 earnings date with an unusual split: short interest is building at its fastest monthly pace in recent data, yet options traders have turned notably more optimistic. The short interest…
Geron Corporation heads into its November 4 earnings report with short sellers adding positions into a stock that has already lost nearly 9% over the past month. Short interest has climbed sharply this week, rising…
Freeport-McMoRan emerges from its Q3 earnings week with analysts revising their numbers lower, the stock down 4% on the week but finding its footing, and the post-print picture now clearer than it was during two weeks…
Franklin Electric reports Q3 results today against a backdrop of unusual options caution, a mild short squeeze in the lending market, and a peer group pulling in opposite directions. The most striking signal this week…
Ford enters its Q3 earnings release with short interest falling faster than almost any comparable week this year, even as the stock itself continues to lag most of its peers. Among the closest auto peers, short…
FirstEnergy reported Q3 results on October 28, and the week's most telling detail is not what the earnings said but where short interest stood going in: 5.5% of free float, the highest level in at least a year, while…
First Financial Bancorp. reports Q3 results today against a backdrop where options traders and short sellers are reading the situation very differently. The clearest bullish signal is in options. The put/call ratio has…
First Citizens BancShares enters the week after its Q3 results with the stock up 11% and analyst opinion sharply divided, a gap that captures the core tension in the thesis. The most important analyst move came from JP…
FFIV delivered quarterly results after the close on October 28, after spending weeks watching short sellers quietly exit the trade. The stock edged up 0.6% over the past week, a muted gain against a peer group that…
FAST is a fastener and industrial supply distributor with a $59 billion market cap, and it is drawing notably more short attention this week: short interest has jumped 16.5% in seven days to 38.6 million shares, the…
ExxonMobil pulled back 2.5% on Tuesday to close at $179.91, giving up some of October's sharp gains with Q3 results due before the open on Thursday. Short sellers have added modestly to their positions this week.…
Euronet Worldwide posted its Q3 results on October 27 and the market's reaction was brutal: the stock fell 7.7% on the day to $59.01, extending a week-on-week loss of nearly 11% and putting the stock squarely in focus…
Ethan Allen Interiors reports after the close today carrying an unusual combination of pressures: short interest has jumped 10% in a week, ORTEX forecasts deletion from multiple MSCI indices in November, and the stock…
Essex Property Trust reported third-quarter results today, and the first market reaction is a modest short-covering move after bears had built their largest position in over a year heading into the print. Short…
eBay fell 2.8% over the past week to $117.83, lagging a peer median that gained roughly 0.5%, with ETSY flat and PDD down 4% over the same stretch. Q3 earnings drop tonight after the close, and the setup has shifted…
Short sellers have been quietly rebuilding positions in DCO this month, pushing short interest to its highest level in at least a year just days before the aerospace components maker reports quarterly results. Short…
DIS approaches its November 11 earnings release with short sellers adding modestly to positions, even as the broader lending market remains among the most relaxed in the large-cap media universe. Short interest has…
CoStar Group reported third-quarter earnings on October 27 and fell 5% on the day. Short sellers moved quickly: positions have climbed 15.6% over the past week to 15.3 million shares, or 3.6% of the free float. That…
GLW reported earnings on October 27 and the immediate reaction has been to extend the month's losses, with the stock down another 1% on the day to $126.30, leaving it 19% below where it traded a month ago. The earnings…
KO reported Q3 results on October 27 and the bears retreated fast: short interest fell 16% over the week to 1.11% of the free float, the sharpest weekly unwind in the dataset this year. The scale of that reversal is…
