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Bill Gates filed purchases of over $346M in RSG stock this week. The trades ran from August 10 to August 19. Gates now stands as the company's largest non-institutional buyer. Republic Services is a boring business —…
Short sellers are repositioning fast. The biggest mover this week was RDDT, where SI % FF jumped 4.1 points to 17.6% in just seven days. Bears are piling in ahead of key catalysts. CHTR also drew fresh attention. SI %…
Nvidia reports Wednesday after the close. At a $5.2 trillion market cap, it is the most consequential earnings print of the season. Salesforce, Synopsys, and HP also report the same day. Intuit and Dick's Sporting…
Options market participants are building bearish positions across several names this week. Three stocks stand out: RDDT, CHTR, and LI. Charter Communications carries the heaviest short burden of the trio. Short…
Analysts turned more positive on defence and tech names this week. Lockheed Martin received a fresh upgrade, shifting one analyst from Hold to Buy. The consensus now sits at one Buy against thirteen Holds and seven…
Short sellers made notable moves this week. Reddit saw the biggest jump among large caps. Its SI % of FF climbed to 17.6%, up 4.1 percentage points in seven days. Bears are piling in despite the stock's strong…
The biggest story this week is the scale of the US equity bid. US-focused ETFs pulled in $37.1B net over the past seven days. That dwarfs every other geography. The flow imbalance reading of 66.9 confirms buying…
NVDA reports Q2 fiscal 2027 results on Wednesday. At a $5.2 trillion market cap, it is the most anticipated earnings print of the season. Short sellers are notably absent. The short score sits at a low 29.5. Days to…
Earnings season is driving sharp options sentiment shifts across tech and Chinese EV names this Sunday, August 23. SNOW is the standout signal. Its put/call ratio hit a new peak, according to ORTEX data — an unusual…
Li Auto heads into its August 26 earnings release with the lending market for its shares running at near-maximum tightness — a striking backdrop for a stock that has quietly rallied 7% over the past week. Borrow…
NVIDIA is back at the earnings gate on August 26 — just one week after its August 19 Q2 fiscal 2027 report — and the positioning story remains exactly what it has been all summer: calm. The price action since the…
Beijing Changjiu Logistics reports Monday morning with the stock sitting on a fragile one-month recovery and a track record of fading after results. The price recovery tells a cautious story. The stock closed at CNY…
SNOW heads into its August 26 earnings print with the most extreme options defensive positioning of the past year — and an analyst community that has spent the last week doing the opposite. The options signal has…
DT heads into its August 26 earnings report with a tailwind from one of the most uniformly bullish analyst reset cycles the stock has seen this year. The Street's reaction to the last print was emphatic. Following a…
P reports on August 26 with the stock already trading at $108.55 — down 8% on the week but up 46% over the past month — setting up a print where the Street is still catching up to a rally that has already happened. The…
VEEV heads into its August 26 earnings release with options traders at their most bullish in over a year — a sharp pivot from the cautious stance that defined positioning just weeks ago. The options signal is the…
CRM enters its August 26 Q2 earnings release having recovered sharply from a rough summer — and the short data confirms that many of its doubters have already covered. Short interest has collapsed by more than a…
Williams-Sonoma reports its next quarterly results on August 26 — days after clearing its August 21 print with a stock now trading at $237.58, up roughly 7.5% over the past month, and holding well above the consensus…
Lockheed Martin received an upgrade this week. Analysts moved it from Hold to Buy. The consensus target price stands at $632.95. The defense giant carries a $130 billion market cap. Short interest is just 1.4% of free…
Prudential plc heads into its August 26 results with options positioning at its most bullish in months and short sellers having largely walked away from the trade. The clearest signal into the print is in the options…
