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SPCX heads into the back half of August with short sellers continuing to retreat and the lending market largely normalised — yet options traders remain the most defensively positioned they have ever been on this…
Willis Towers Watson heads into the back half of August with an unusually clear divergence: the Street is raising targets at pace while short sellers are heading for the exits — yet the stock still lost ground on the…
XLRE enters the back half of August with its borrow market dramatically looser than a week ago — a sharp reversal that contradicts the slow rebuilding story that defined the past month. The most striking development is…
Ferroglobe heads into the back half of August with a curious split: the stock is giving back gains from a blockbuster earnings print, yet options traders are the most bullish they've been all year. The earnings…
Lumentum Holdings has rallied 19% over the past month, delivered a strong earnings beat, watched analysts lift targets — and then dropped nearly 10% in a single session, with options traders now running the most…
PayPal heads into the back half of 2026 with one of the cleanest short-covering stories in the payments sector — shorts have retreated by nearly a third in a month, analysts have lifted targets across the board, yet…
Alamos Gold enters the back half of August on the defensive — the stock dropped 3% on Tuesday to CAD 45.76 — but the more interesting story is what company insiders were doing during a stronger patch just weeks…
SHOP heads into the back half of August in an interesting position: a stock that jumped nearly 20% on earnings earlier this month is now pulling back, while insiders are selling into the strength and the Street is…
Kenon Holdings heads into its September 2 earnings print having clawed back last week's losses — but with the short score creeping higher and the borrow market shifting in a way worth noting. The price action has…
Keysight Technologies cleared the bar on Q3 earnings — and then fell 5.6% anyway, a reminder that positioning ahead of a print matters as much as the numbers themselves. The stock closed at $341.00 on August 18, the…
Citizens Financial Group heads into the back half of August with short sellers quietly rebuilding positions while options traders move in the opposite direction — a tension that gives the stock an unusually mixed…
OKTA enters its August 26 earnings print with the most concentrated burst of analyst target-raising seen in months — yet the stock at $143.92 has pulled back 4.3% on the week, creating an unusual gap between Street…
NOMD heads into the back half of August with a story that has two distinct threads — a cluster of insider buying done in May that remains the most striking feature of the ownership picture, and a valuation that stays…
SGDM, the Sprott Gold Miners ETF, enters the week with a striking divergence: the fund is up 25% over the past month, yet short sellers have just made their most aggressive move on the name in recent memory. The…
Live Oak Bancshares heads into the back half of August with options traders at their most cautious in a year and the company's founder continuing to trim his stake — a combination worth watching even as the broader…
Cronos Group is in an unusual spot for a cannabis name — the stock is quietly rallying, shorts are barely engaged, and the borrow market is among the loosest in the sector. The price tells the headline story. CRON…
Ardelyx enters the back half of August with a stock down 25% in a month and a Street that still formally likes the company — but keeps cutting what it's willing to pay for it. The catalyst was the August 6 earnings…
BABA has recovered to $128.15, up 2.8% on Tuesday and essentially flat on the week, arriving at Wednesday evening's August 20 earnings event in notably better shape than the wounded setup described just two days…
Ladder Capital enters the back half of August with a notable tension: short sellers have been piling in aggressively, yet the lending market remains extraordinarily loose and options traders are leaning bullish — a…
ARMK enters the week with the Street uniformly bullish after a strong earnings beat, yet the COO just sold more than $12 million worth of stock into that strength — a contrast worth watching. The analyst response to…
