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KTCC Heads Into Earnings Under an SEC Cloud

Key Tronic Corporation enters its May 5 Q3 results with a fresh SEC enforcement action in the background — and short interest that has nearly halved from its early-April peak, even as a small recent rebuild draws…

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Trailbreaker Bounces, but the Setup Stays Thin

TBK, the junior gold explorer, heads into its May 6 event with a modest price recovery masking a lending market that has almost entirely stood down. The week's most interesting feature is how dramatically short…

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KEWL Shorts Retreat as Earnings Loom

KEWL heads into next week's estimated Q1 results with its short position virtually evaporated — a notable reversal from conditions that briefly turned the borrow market quite tight just days ago. The most striking…

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KEQU Rebounds on Thin Volume Ahead of June Print

Kewaunee Scientific heads into the final stretch of its fiscal year with the stock quietly recovering from a sharp earnings-driven selloff — and the market offering few clues about conviction on either side. The price…

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ESK CEO Keeps Buying as Short Interest Collapses

ESK's most telling data point this week is not price — it's the CEO's hands. The clearest signal on Eskay Mining Corp. is sustained insider buying from the top. President and CEO Hugh Balkam has made eight separate…

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KMT Shorts Retreat Ahead of May Earnings

Kennametal heads into its May 6 earnings report with short sellers retreating sharply — the most notable positioning shift at this industrial tools maker in months. Short interest has fallen by roughly a third since…

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KLS CEO Exits as Short Sellers Quietly Retreat

Kelso Technologies heads into May with a leadership vacuum at the top and short sellers nowhere to be seen — two facts that make for an unusual setup in this micro-cap industrials name. The biggest story this month is…

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KELY.B Heads Into Earnings With a Collapsed Short Position

Kelly Services KELY.B enters its May 7 Q1 earnings call with one of the stranger lending-market stories in small-cap staffing: a cost-to-borrow above 200% that peaked near 255% in March, attached to a short position…

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Tuktu borrow costs climb as director keeps buying

Tuktu Resources Ltd. heads into its May 1 results announcement with a striking contrast: a director buying aggressively for months while borrowing costs hit multi-year highs. Director Robert Yurchevich has been one of…

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Trader NoteJPSW.Y

Japan Steel Works: Borrow Costs Climb as Earnings Approach

JPSW.Y heads into its May 11 earnings release with a notable contradiction: short interest has collapsed over the past month, but the cost to borrow those shares has quietly risen to multi-year highs. The most striking…

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Jabil Insiders Sell Into the Rally

JBL enters the week in a curious position: the stock has climbed 28% over the past month to $333.86, and the Street keeps raising targets — yet virtually every insider with shares to sell is doing exactly that. The…

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Shorts Easing Into ZD's May Earnings

Ziff Davis heads into its May 6 Q1 results with the most notable shift this month being a sharp retreat in short positions — yet history shows the stock has a habit of punishing those who expect a quiet print. Short…

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VIAV Shorts Exit Into an Earnings Beat

Viavi Solutions heads into Thursday's post-close earnings release as one of the clearest short-covering stories in the communications equipment space — a 31% monthly price run paired with a meaningful unwind of bearish…

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JJSF Enters Earnings With Shorts at a Year High

J&J Snack Foods Corp. heads into its Q2 fiscal 2026 report on May 4 with short sellers at their most aggressive level in over a year — and the stock nevertheless up 7% on the week. That tension is the week's defining…

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Analysts pile onto IONS as shorts quietly retreat

Ionis Pharmaceuticals heads into the week after Q1 earnings with a notable divergence: the Street is growing more bullish while shorts are methodically unwinding, leaving the stock's $74.83 close roughly 25% below…

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IDN CEO Sells Into the Rally as Earnings Loom

Intellicheck heads into its May 12 Q1 2026 earnings print with a notable insider signal hanging over a stock that just posted a 56% monthly gain. The insider pattern here is hard to miss. CEO Bryan Lewis has sold…

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