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Analysts dealt Target Corporation its sharpest blow of the week, issuing a downgrade that cut the consensus price target from $144 to $151. The move reflects growing concern over the retailer's ability to hold market…
Insiders filed a wave of notable trades this week. Three stories stand out. CoreCivic under mass exit. Five insiders at CXW filed sales this week totalling over $9M. CFO David Garfinkle sold $1.7M worth of shares on…
US-focused ETFs dominated this week. They pulled in a net $28.1B over the past seven days. That is far ahead of every other geography. The flow imbalance sits at 67.8 — firmly in buying-pressure territory. Over three…
SPRY posted a 6% gain on the week to $6.30, but the real story is what's happening in the lending market — short interest remains near 22% of the free float, borrow availability is close to fully used, and the stock…
DNP reports tomorrow with its ORTEX short score having jumped nearly 40% in just two days — the sharpest move in the available history — creating an unusual setup for a stock that has otherwise looked well-supported by…
Ionic Digital reported its first earnings as a public company on August 19 — and the data since then tells a story of renewed short-side interest colliding with a stock still digesting a strong week. The stock gained…
Wolfspeed reported earnings on August 19 — and the stock's 10% single-day drop tells only part of the story, because the positioning that surrounded it was already extreme before the first number crossed the…
Netskope heads into its September 2 earnings print with analysts raising targets, shorts pulling back sharply from last month's peak, and options traders leaning noticeably more bullish than usual. The most striking…
Galaxy Digital enters the back half of August with a familiar problem: short interest stubbornly high, the stock down 6.6% on Tuesday alone, and a fresh analyst cut from Citi landing the same day. The short rebuild…
CRCL delivered its earnings release on Wednesday, and the initial pop has given way to a 3.8% pullback Tuesday, leaving the stock at $71.73 — a more complicated picture than the confident squeeze narrative of last…
BULL has just reported Q2 2026 results — and the positioning picture heading into that print has barely shifted coming out of it. Short interest remains the central data point here. The position has held roughly flat…
Septerna has given back ground since its August 11 earnings surge, sliding 8% this week to $43.80 — and a wave of insider selling at the highs tells a pointed story about where the people closest to the company saw…
Safehold enters the back half of August with a fresh analyst downgrade, a stock trading near multi-month lows, and options positioning that has shifted notably more defensive over the past month — a convergence of…
Granite Ridge Resources enters the week with a striking insider-buying pattern running against a stock that has already climbed 12% over the past month — a signal worth parsing carefully. The most compelling story here…
ALVO enters its August 20 earnings report in an unusual position: the stock has rallied 14% in a month, a bellwether analyst just initiated coverage with a bullish call, and yet short sellers built positions…
Westrock Coffee Company enters the back half of August with an unusual combination pulling in opposite directions: analyst confidence is quietly building, while the ORTEX short score has drifted to its highest reading…
Aurora Innovation enters the back half of August with a sharp divergence at its core: short sellers are adding to already-elevated positions at the same time insiders and early backers are selling into every available…
MDA Space Ltd. enters the back half of August in an awkward position: short interest has more than doubled over the past month, yet the borrow market remains so flush with supply that the pressure has nowhere to…
Expand Energy Corporation heads into the back half of August with a familiar tension now sharpening: the Street is trimming its price targets while options traders are more defensively positioned than at any point this…
BILL Holdings has just passed through earnings with short sellers having done their covering ahead of the print — and the week's data now raises a different question: whether the reduced short base holds, or whether…
