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HPQ has now reported — the stock closed at $30.52, up 3.4% on the day, extending an 18.5% one-month rally that has already run well past what most analysts think the stock is worth. The short side added conviction into…
Donaldson Company has reported its August 27 results into a market where the extraordinary pre-print anxiety has already dissolved — the question now is what the numbers mean for a stock that has rebounded cleanly from…
Options traders are betting heavily against the semiconductor sector. Micron Technology and NVIDIA top the week's negative options bets among US large caps, with both names drawing the highest volume of bearish…
All market attention lands on NVDA today. The $5.2 trillion chip giant reports Q2 2027 results at 5pm ET. Options traders have been active all week. The stock's RSI sits at 44.65 — neither stretched nor panicked.…
Analysts turned bearish on INTU on Wednesday. The consensus rating slipped from Hold territory toward Sell. Three analysts cut their positions, pushing the buy-side count from 24 to 21. Oppenheimer's Scott Schneeberger…
Bill Gates filed new purchases in RSG this week. The filings, reported August 20–24, show he bought over 600,000 shares across multiple days. The total spent exceeds $130M, at prices averaging around $219–221 per…
Short sellers made sharp moves this week. Wolfspeed saw the biggest cover among larger names. Its SI % FF dropped nearly 11 points in seven days — from 83.7% to 72.8%. Bears are pulling back despite the stock falling…
Japan ETFs pulled in $18B net this week. That makes Japan the single biggest geographic winner on a 1-week basis — flipping to the top slot from third place over three months. Meanwhile, US-focused funds bled $13.4B in…
NVDA reported Q2 results after the close, delivering a double beat. CEO Jensen Huang declared "AI infrastructure buildout is at full steam." The $5.2 trillion chipmaker beat Wall Street on both revenue and earnings.…
Today brings two major earnings calls. NVDA reports Q2 2027 results at 5pm ET. All eyes are on the AI chip giant after a year of sky-high expectations. Also today, SNPS holds its Q3 2026 earnings call, while HPQ wraps…
INTU dominated analyst desks this week. Three separate firms trimmed targets in quick succession. Morgan Stanley lowered its price target to $315 from $335. Oppenheimer cut to $380 from $406. The consensus rating also…
Bill Gates filed purchases worth over $434 million in RSG (Republic Services) over just 12 days. The Microsoft co-founder bought nearly 2 million shares between August 10 and August 21 at prices around $215–$223 each.…
Short sellers are making bold moves this week. The data reveals major shifts in positioning across some of the market's most-watched names. WDAY saw the sharpest squeeze signal of the day. Short interest plummeted…
ASST is up 67% in a week and 86% over the past month, yet the borrow market is tightening faster than shorts are leaving — a compression story that has now been running for three consecutive notes without…
Hertz Global Holdings is caught in an increasingly tense standoff: the stock is up 7% on the week and 23% on the month, yet the short position has barely moved and the borrow market remains completely locked. The…
CRE remains one of the more puzzling disconnects on the LSE — a profitable reinsurer trading well below book value, with analysts implying 60% upside and no obvious catalyst to close the gap. The valuation story has…
CPRI enters the final week of August with a sharp and sudden re-build of bearish positioning, even as the stock has already lost more than a third of its value since the start of the year. The standout this week is the…
GRPN is in a rare situation this week — bears are retreating for the first time in months, yet the lending market is nowhere near ready to confirm a clean exit. The covering story is real but needs context. Short…
JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — has delivered the week bears feared: the Polish coking coal miner closed Tuesday at PLN 31.5, up 12% on the week and 24% over the past month, as the short squeeze that ORTEX data…
Super Micro Computer is caught between two contradictory signals this week: a short base that keeps shrinking and options traders who just hedged at the most defensive pace of the past year. The put/call ratio is the…
