Trader notes, earnings previews, Confluences, weekly digests and roundups — long-form analysis grounded in ORTEX short interest, options flow and analyst data.
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IREN enters its earnings release today with the short base marginally smaller than yesterday but still one of the most extreme in digital infrastructure — and the borrow market nearly as sealed as it has been all…
GTLB heads into its August 31 earnings report in a state of flux: short sellers have dramatically unwound positions over the past week, analysts are raising targets in a cluster but still trail the current price, and…
Malibu Boats heads into its fiscal Q4 earnings tonight with options positioning flashing one of its most bullish readings in a year — a sharp break from weeks of defensive hedging. The options market tells the most…
Banco BBVA Argentina reports today against a backdrop that is more complicated than its ORTEX stock score suggests. The bank carries a near-peak composite score of 88.2, driven by exceptional forward earnings momentum,…
NVDA reports Q2 2027 results today after the close. It is the single most-watched event of the week. AI infrastructure spending has lifted expectations sky-high. MRVL follows tomorrow, another key read on chip demand.…
Agilent Technologies dominated analyst activity today. Three separate firms raised their price targets on the life sciences equipment maker. Stifel moved to $180 from $170. B of A Securities jumped to $180 from $155.…
Bill Gates has been on a buying spree. Filings show he acquired over $562 million worth of RSG — Republic Services — across 44 separate transactions between August 10 and August 25. Each purchase was filed with…
Short sellers sharpened their bets this week. ORTEX data through August 26 shows several notable moves across a range of sectors. Klaviyo surges onto the radar. KVYO saw its short interest jump nearly 7 percentage…
The biggest story this week is a sharp reversal in US equity flows. American ETFs shed a net $24.2B in the past week, with outflows of $72B swamping $47.8B in inflows. Flow imbalance sits at just 39.9 — deep selling…
Three distinct signals have aligned on ESI this week. Short sellers are exiting at pace, options traders have swung to extreme bullishness, and the borrow market is sending its own mixed message. The standout number is…
All eyes point to NVDA this evening. The AI chip giant reports Q2 2027 results at 5pm ET. Expectations are sky-high after a year of relentless outperformance. MRVL follows Thursday, giving markets a second read on AI…
Agilent Technologies dominated analyst activity today. Four separate firms — Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, B of A Securities, and Stifel — all raised their price targets on the life-science instrumentation company. Goldman…
Bill Gates has been on a quiet buying spree. Filings disclosed this week show he spent over $562 million on Republic Services shares across 44 separate transactions between August 10 and August 25. The purchases ranged…
Short sellers shook up several mid-cap names in the week to August 26. The biggest mover among sizeable stocks was KVYO. Its SI % FF jumped 6.8 percentage points in seven days — rising from 13.2% to just under 20%.…
Abercrombie & Fitch delivered a blowout earnings print on August 26. The stock closed at $147.75, up 35.7% in a single session. Now the question is where it goes from here — and the data is sending conflicting…
Three bearish signals converged on SUI Wednesday. Short interest, options positioning, and analyst moves are all pointing the same direction. Short interest in Sun Communities hit 5.7% of free float on August 26.…
Bank of America upgraded P to Buy today, raising its target 67% to $150. That is the single biggest rating move in a wave of post-earnings analyst actions that has reshaped the consensus overnight. The upgrade wave is…
MDV enters the final week of August with its lending market fully exhausted — a condition that has persisted almost without interruption for three weeks and shows no sign of easing. The most striking feature of MDV's…
OKTA has just reported its August 26 earnings, and the Street's response has been immediate and nearly unanimous — a wave of upward target revisions hitting the tape the very next morning, even as the stock itself…
BBDC4 gained 6% on the week to BRL 16.99, outpacing most of its Brazilian banking peers — yet the insider register tells a quietly different story about where those close to the bank see fair value. The most telling…
