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Summit Therapeutics arrives at its October 27 earnings release with shorts quietly stepping back, options traders leaning toward calls, and a binary FDA decision on ivonescimab sitting just weeks beyond the print. The…
GLDM, the SPDR Gold MiniShares Trust, has dropped 8.3% over the past month to $79.13, one of the sharper retreats the ETF has seen in recent quarters, yet the short-selling community is moving in the opposite direction…
RCBC heads into its October 26 earnings print with two forces pulling in opposite directions: short sellers rebuilding positions at pace while a credible Russell 2000 inclusion story supplies a mechanical buying…
BlackLine heads into its November 3 earnings with a striking tension: the stock has rallied 17% in a week and 25% in a month, yet short sellers at 8.6% of float are only slowly unwinding, and the analyst consensus…
MCBS enters the week after a fresh earnings release with the stock up nearly 2% on the month, the lending market relaxed, and the Street's sole active coverage holder sitting well below the current price. Positioning…
PJT Partners heads into its October 27 Q3 earnings release with short sellers trimming positions, analysts cutting targets, and retail attention running at its highest level in months. The positioning picture is…
FirstService Corporation reported Q3 results on October 22 that moved the stock up nearly 5% on the day, but the post-earnings bounce has since given back ground, with shares falling 2.5% on October 23 to close at CAD…
Ardelyx reports Q3 results on October 29 with a stock down 15% over the past month, short sellers still holding a meaningful position, and options markets running at their most defensive stance of the past year. The…
RingCentral jumped 10.5% over the past week to $83.39, a move that looks smaller only because its closest software peers ran even harder, with Five9 up 16.7%, Asana up 21.9%, and Appian up 27.2% over the same…
Rexford Industrial Realty delivered a 5.2% jump on earnings day and has held most of those gains, but the put/call ratio tells a story of hedges that were built for a much worse outcome. The most striking shift this…
T-Mobile US fell 7.9% on the week to $146.54, a sharp underperformance against a peer group that was broadly flat to slightly positive. Among the closest correlated telecoms names, TDS gained 4.2% and ALMENDRAL added…
Delek Logistics Partners heads into its November 5 earnings report with an unusually clear insider conviction signal in the rearview mirror, and a lending market that remains wide open. The standout fact in this…
Palo Alto Networks gained 11.3% over the past week, closing at $380.55, while the broader cybersecurity cohort moved even faster: CRWD rose 13.3% and TENB climbed nearly 20% across the same period. The rally has…
Short interest in UI has dropped to its lowest level in at least a year, even as the stock slips into next month's earnings with the borrow market remaining unusually relaxed for a $35.5 billion communications…
MOS enters its November 3 earnings window trading at $17.84, down 28% over the past month, with a wall of analyst target cuts, a potential S&P 500 ejection, and short interest that keeps slowly climbing. The index…
Howard Hughes Holdings heads into its November 5 earnings with a notable contradiction: short sellers have rebuilt positions at the fastest monthly pace in recent memory, yet the stock is quietly grinding higher and…
VC fell 10% on October 22 after its quarterly earnings, and the stock has now shed 17% in the past month to $76.37. That single-day drop is the defining event of the week, and the fallout is still spreading. The…
LRN has now cleared its October 22 earnings event and the stock's response tells the clearest story of the week: a 5.7% one-day drop following the print, leaving shares at $79.40, down 3.6% on the week and only…
Ulta Beauty has spent the past month staging a recovery that has wrong-footed its short sellers, yet bearish positioning has quietly climbed to its highest level in at least a year even as the stock trades 12.7% above…
ALGT heads into its November 4 earnings report with options markets flashing their most defensive signal in months, while short sellers have quietly rebuilt positions after a brief pullback. The clearest warning comes…
