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KSS heads into its August 26 earnings report as one of the most heavily shorted names in US retail, with options positioning tilting more defensive than usual ahead of the release. More than a quarter of KSS's free…
XPEV heads into its August 27 print carrying a fresh 9% loss while every major peer closes the week in the green — a divergence that sharpens the question the earnings report must answer. The price action is the…
CHWY heads into its August 26 earnings report with a stock that has quietly recovered 17% over the past month, even as short sellers have been quietly retreating — a combination that sets up an interesting test of…
TLK — the NYSE-listed ADR for Indonesia's state-controlled telecom giant Telkom — enters its August 28 earnings report on a quiet upward drift, with short sellers showing little conviction and the borrow market…
HEICO Corporation reports today with the stock down 5% on the week — but the selloff reflects broad aerospace weakness more than any company-specific deterioration. The sector backdrop is the clearest frame for the…
DDS heads into its August 28 earnings event in a striking position: the stock has rallied 13% in a month, yet the short base has barely moved, and analysts remain firmly negative. Short interest has drifted lower but…
Wednesday's close brings NVDA's earnings. The chipmaker carries a $5.2 trillion market cap. Every AI trade in the market hangs on this print. Options markets show maximum uncertainty — NVDA's RSI sits at a neutral 51.…
Analyst desks were busy on August 25. The standout trend: upward target price revisions across energy and fintech names. HOOD drew fresh attention as consensus lifted its average target price to $120.08, up from…
Short sellers shifted their sights this week. The biggest movers tell a clearer story than the static leaderboard. RDDT saw the sharpest SI jump among large caps. Short interest rose to 17.6% of free float, up from…
The single biggest story this week is Japan. ETFs targeting Japanese equities pulled in $12.2B net over the past seven days. The flow imbalance hit 84.6 — deep in buying-pressure territory. Over three months, Japan…
Wednesday is what markets have been waiting for. NVDA reports after the close on August 26. The chipmaker holds a $5.2 trillion market cap. Options traders are positioned on both sides with the stock's RSI sitting at a…
Raymond James trimmed targets on two major carriers today. Southwest Airlines saw its price target cut to $54 from $60. Delta Air Lines dropped to $98 from $104. Both stocks kept Buy ratings. The analyst, Savanthi…
Executives at several US companies filed large stock sales this week. One founder went the other direction and bought aggressively. MaxLinear CEO Kishore Seendripu filed over $37M in sales across six transactions…
Short sellers made a decisive move against RDDT this week. Reddit's SI % of Free Float jumped from 13.5% to 17.6% — a 4.2 percentage point rise in just seven days. That's one of the biggest weekly increases among…
Four Wall Street firms have downgraded Weave Communications in the past week. The cluster of analyst cuts is striking — and it tells a specific story about how professionals read the Francisco Partners deal. Raymond…
WEN has extended its August recovery to $9.01 — up 18% over the past month — yet the structural short position remains enormous and the options market has now spent a full week at its most bullish extreme, a…
AST SpaceMobile ends the week in a state of productive tension — short sellers have now trimmed over 12 million shares from their peak position, yet the borrow market has barely thawed, leaving a 20% short float on a…
Iovance Biotherapeutics gave back 7.8% on Friday to close at $8.29, yet still logged an 18.8% gain on the week — and the most notable shift in the data this week is not in the short book but in options, where defensive…
JS Global Lifestyle (1691) heads into its August 28 interim results with the most hostile borrow market in its recent history — and the stock has just staged a sharp rally that is making that borrow even more expensive…
Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company enters the final week of August having gained nearly 5% on the week and almost 20% over the past month — yet the borrow market has tightened meaningfully alongside the rally,…
