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Analysts moved on two distinct sectors this week. Defense and utilities drew the most notable rating changes in recent activity. LMT received a formal upgrade. The defense giant's consensus shifted to a more bullish…
Bill Gates filed this week to have bought over $160 million in RSG stock. The Republic Services purchases spanned 17 separate transactions between August 14 and 19. Gates paid between $215 and $223 per share. It is one…
Short interest in RDDT jumped 4.1 percentage points in one week. The stock now sits at 17.6% of free float short. Bears are clearly betting against the social platform — even as it dominates its own headlines. QUBT is…
Plug Power enters the week with a peculiar split: short sellers have been quietly reducing exposure for a month, yet the lending market has tightened sharply, and options traders are leaning more bullish than they have…
HYMC heads into late August with an unusual tension at its core — short sellers hold a large position, a 30% one-month rally has squeezed some of them out, and insiders have been cashing out consistently since…
Rezolute enters the week with a fascinating split personality: a 19% short interest reading that has grown 12% over the past month sits alongside a stock that just rallied 11% in a week and attracted fresh…
WBTN enters the week on a recovering footing — up 6.2% over the past five sessions to $8.80 — yet the ORTEX short score remains stubbornly elevated at 84, and the analyst community has just spent its post-earnings week…
TASK enters the week of August 23 with a story defined by two competing forces: a stock that has surged 37% in a month and a lending market that just whipsawed from fully locked to relatively open, all while shorts…
Quantum Computing Inc. heads into the final week of August with nearly a third of its float sold short, a lending market that is completely seized up, and options traders the most bullish they've been in months — a…
Johnson & Johnson has done something quietly remarkable this week: it has rallied far enough that the stock now trades above every single price at which its executives have sold over the past three weeks. The insider…
NCH2 has now strung together ten consecutive sessions of rising short scores — and the latest reading, 97.3, is the highest the ORTEX composite has reached in the entire tracked history. The borrow market remains the…
Super Micro Computer enters the back half of August with two stories running in parallel — shorts continuing a steady retreat from record levels, and analysts upgrading their price views post-earnings while still…
NVDA reports Wednesday after the close. The $5.2 trillion chip giant is the most watched print of the season. Bears are loading up via options despite low short interest of just 1.3% of free float. AMD and MU options…
Two upgrades stand out in today's analyst activity. LMT and EVRG both received formal rating lifts, while target price bumps spread across several other names. Lockheed Martin was upgraded by one analyst, lifting…
Insiders filed a flurry of significant trades this week. The activity ranges from a bold billionaire buy to a founder steadily trimming his stake. Bill Gates filed this week showing he bought $36.4M worth of RSG stock…
Short sellers are active heading into a pivotal week. NVIDIA earnings dominate the calendar, yet the chip giant itself shows just 1.3% SI % of FF. Bears are positioning elsewhere. Reddit saw the sharpest SI jump among…
US-focused ETFs pulled in $37.1B last week. That is the dominant story in global fund flows right now. The flow imbalance sits at 66.9 — firmly in buying-pressure territory. Over three months, the US haul reaches…
NVDA is the only thing that matters this week. The $5.2 trillion chipmaker reports Wednesday after the close. Markets are pricing in uncertainty from every angle. Options flow is skewed bearish. Short sellers have…
Bears are loading up on options ahead of NVDA's earnings report. Negative bets in the semiconductor sector dominate the options market this week. NVDA tops the list for bearish options flow among large-caps. The $5.2…
Analysts lifted their rating on LMT in the latest round of changes. Lockheed Martin moved up to a consensus of 13 Hold ratings plus one Buy. The defense giant carries a $130bn market cap and a $632 average target…
