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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…
HPQ reports fiscal Q3 results on August 26 carrying a 20% one-month rally into a print where Wall Street's consensus target sits well below the current price — a gap that makes the earnings release more about defending…
DY heads into its August 26 earnings report with options traders positioned more bullishly than usual — even as the stock retreats and short sellers hold their ground. The clearest signal heading into the print is the…
Donaldson Company arrives at its August 26 earnings print with options positioning now significantly more extreme than when ORTEX last covered it — the defensive hedging that was building four days ago has accelerated…
Short sellers are turning their sights on RDDT. SI % FF jumped to 17.6% as of August 20. That's up from 13.5% just a week earlier — a 4.1 percentage point spike. ORTEX news flagged the move directly, noting bears are…
Bill Gates has been quietly loading up on RSG shares. Filings this week show he bought more than $215M worth of Republic Services stock across seven separate transactions between August 10 and August 18. Each purchase…
Brown-Forman BF.A reports fiscal first-quarter results on August 26 with the stock quietly recovering ground — and short sellers retreating. Options traders are positioned more bullishly than usual into the print. The…
Agilent Technologies arrives at its August 26 earnings release on the back of a 20% monthly rally — the strongest momentum case the stock has built in recent quarters, and the one the print now has to justify. The…
Short sellers turned aggressive on RDDT this past week. Short interest jumped to 17.6% of free float, up from 13.5% — a 4.1 percentage-point spike in just seven days. The move comes as markets brace for NVDA's results,…
All eyes point to Wednesday. NVDA reports Q2 fiscal 2027 results after the close. The $5.2 trillion chipmaker is the biggest earnings print of the season. Reports emerged that Nvidia has notified customers of…
Lockheed Martin picked up an analyst upgrade on August 22, lifting its consensus to 13 holds and 1 buy. The $130 billion defence contractor carries a consensus target of $632.95. Short interest sits at just 1.4% of…
Bill Gates has been quietly building a position in RSG. Filings dated August 20 show he purchased $346.5 million worth of Republic Services stock across 31 separate transactions. Trades ran from August 10 to August 19…
Short sellers are on the move. Reddit saw the biggest 7-day jump among large-caps, with SI climbing 4.1 percentage points to 17.6% of free float. Bears are growing louder on the social platform even as the market turns…
Active strategies are pulling in cash at a record pace. Institutions are rotating hard into equities, fixed income, and commodities all at once. The risk-on tone is broad — but cracks are appearing beneath the…
Bond markets are under pressure. The 30-year Treasury yield is rising. US Treasury Secretary Bessent moved to boost long-term debt buybacks, but investors called it a "band-aid on a bullet hole." Japanese inflation is…
Options sentiment across US markets skews bullish this week. However, notable pockets of bearish flow are flashing signals worth watching. Micron Technology tops the negative options bets leaderboard among large caps.…
This week packs some of the heaviest earnings of the year. NVDA leads the charge on Wednesday. The chipmaker reports Q2 fiscal 2027 results after the close. With a $5.2 trillion market cap, it is the most watched print…
Shift4 Payments is grinding back from a brutal earnings drop, with short sellers slowly retreating even as the borrow market signals the stock remains under meaningful pressure. The recovery context matters here.…
Analysts delivered a string of positive calls on Friday. Three names stand out: Lockheed Martin, Evergy, and CrowdStrike. LMT was upgraded by the consensus, moving one analyst from Hold to Buy. The defense giant…
BXDC heads into late August with an unusual mix of signals for a newly-listed trust: short sellers are cutting positions sharply, yet analyst targets cluster only modestly above the current price, leaving the stock in…
