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Short sellers made fresh moves this week. Reddit and Charter Communications led the charge among notable names seeing rising bearish bets. Reddit's SI % of free float climbed to 17.6% from 13.5% in just seven days — a…
Texas Pacific Land Corporation extended its post-earnings recovery this week, gaining 7% to close at $383.64 — yet the short base that absorbed the August selloff remains almost entirely intact, setting up a quiet but…
The Real Brokerage Inc. heads into the weekend with its two loudest signals pointing in opposite directions — options traders turning sharply more optimistic while short sellers, sitting on 14.3% of the free float,…
Royalty Pharma enters the final stretch of August with an awkward split: options positioning remains at its most call-heavy reading of the past year while the executives running the company have been selling into the…
SGOV enters the back half of August with an unusual split: short sellers are quietly cutting exposure while options traders are growing more defensive than they have been in months. The most interesting development…
Onto Innovation spent the week down 11.6% to $293.33 — one of the steeper drops among its semiconductor equipment peers — arriving just days after Goldman Sachs initiated coverage with a Buy and a $400 target, making…
Entera Bio has become one of the more striking small-cap biotech setups of the summer — a stock up 65% in a month while short sellers pile in at a pace not seen in years. The lending market tells the most urgent story…
TWLO enters the back half of August with a striking split in its story: a post-earnings stock that rallied nearly 25% in a single day is now giving back ground, while almost every analyst who covers it just raised…
HUBB heads into the back half of August carrying an 8% weekly loss and options positioning that has turned unusually protective — a combination that makes this week's setup worth examining closely. The clearest signal…
UBS Group AG enters the final stretch of August on the back foot, down 2.4% on the week to CHF 42.50, with the next earnings catalyst still two months away and the stock giving back some of its strong run from the…
Tandem Diabetes Care heads into the back half of August with a notable split in momentum — a 27% one-month rally has prompted fresh analyst attention while short sellers quietly but consistently pare back…
Applied Optoelectronics heads into the back half of August with a striking contradiction at its core: short sellers are quietly reducing exposure while company insiders are locking in gains at every opportunity, all…
Two Harbors Investment Corp. enters the back half of August in an unusual position for a mortgage REIT: short sellers are backing away, borrow conditions are extraordinarily loose, and the options market is dominated…
The most interesting tension in BIL this week is a short interest figure that looks busy on the surface but tells a much calmer story once you look at the lending market underneath it. Short interest climbed nearly 14%…
Willdan Group heads into the final stretch of August with a notable tension at its core: short interest has climbed to a 30-day high while options positioning has simultaneously flipped toward its most bullish reading…
Silicon Motion Technology enters the back half of August as the standout defensive name in a semiconductor peer group that just had a brutal week — and the gap between where the stock trades and where analysts think it…
MannKind Corporation heads into the final week of August with shorts rebuilding at the margin, institutions adding aggressively, and analysts pointing to a stock that trades at less than half its consensus target — a…
Veeco Instruments heads into the back half of August with two competing signals pulling in opposite directions: heavy insider selling at the top, and a short base that has been quietly unwinding for weeks. The insider…
Take-Two Interactive heads into its September earnings with a notable split: the Street is lifting targets after a strong August print, but the CEO was selling shares into the rally. The analyst reaction to Take-Two's…
Sherwin-Williams heads into the back half of August with an interesting divergence: the stock is down 3.5% on the week while the analyst community remains firmly in the bull camp, with several houses lifting targets…
