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Mastercard gained 1% on the week, a solid move in isolation, but it trailed the median of its closest payments peers by more than two percentage points as V added 1.3%, FISV climbed 4.9%, and FIS rose 4.2%. The…
Short sellers have been quietly rebuilding positions in CF Industries over the past month, even as the stock has held its ground better than most of its peers this week. Short interest has climbed 17% over the past 30…
LKQ fell 22.5% on Thursday alone, closing at $17.42. The drop brings the one-month loss to 26%, and it arrives five days before Q3 results on October 29 with short interest at its highest point in at least a…
The iShares U.S. Technology ETF IYW enters the final stretch of October with a mild but meaningful shift in tone: options positioning has turned more defensive over the past week, even as short-selling activity remains…
WYNN enters the week ahead of its November 4 earnings with short sellers at their most aggressive in over a year, even as every analyst who touched the stock in October maintained a positive rating. Short interest has…
Arch Capital Group heads into its Q3 earnings release on October 27 with short sellers adding modestly to positions over the past month, even as the stock has outpaced most of its closest peers on the week. Short…
WMB reports third-quarter results on October 29, with short sellers pulling back modestly while the Street maintains a broadly constructive stance heading into the week. Short interest in Williams has slipped slightly…
Waste Management reports Q3 results on Tuesday, October 27, with short interest at its highest level in over a year and analysts cutting targets ahead of the print. Short interest has nearly doubled since late…
VZ enters its Q3 report on Monday with the clearest pressure in the peer group not on Verizon itself, but on the stock it is most closely correlated with. T dropped 8% on Friday alone and is down 10.7% on the week, a…
Valley National Bancorp has had a sharp week, gaining 11.1% to close at $14.06, with a coordinated wave of analyst target increases landing on the same day the stock extended its move. The analyst action on October 23…
Tractor Supply Company has shifted sharply in the two days since its Q3 print, with short sellers retreating and a wave of analyst target upgrades landing on the same morning the stock slipped nearly 4%. The reversal…
Roper Technologies enters the final stretch of October with a rare alignment: a 14.5% weekly gain, a flush of post-earnings analyst upgrades, and short sellers quietly cutting exposure into the rally. The catalyst was…
PEP gained 3.3% over the past week, broadly in line with beverage peers but doing so while options positioning shifted more defensive than at any point in months. Among its closest comparables, TAP led the group with a…
NVR reported on October 22 and gained just over 1% on the day. Short sellers have not moved on. Short interest came into the print at 5.5% of the free float, the highest level in at least a year, up 32% from a month…
Middlesex Water Company heads into its October 29 earnings release in an unusually calm positioning environment, with short sellers showing no conviction and the lending market wide open. Short interest at 4.5% of the…
MSC Industrial Direct enters the back half of October defined by a single, jarring number: the stock fell 14.3% on October 22 after reporting quarterly results, its sharpest post-earnings drop on record in recent…
JetBlue reports Q3 results on Monday with shorts at their most committed in recent memory and options traders piling on protection, leaving the stock priced for bad news before a single number lands. Short interest has…
Iron Mountain fell 2.3% over the past week while its closest data-center REIT peers held or gained ground: DLR slipped just 2%, EQIX dropped 3.1%, and storage-adjacent names CUBE and MRP added 3% and 6% respectively.…
Fair Isaac Corporation gained 5.7% this week to close at $815.31, a solid bounce that still leaves the stock down nearly 11% over the past month and trailing most of its closest peers, with correlated names like ROP…
CPRT has spent the week in an unusual bind: its shares gained 4% but remain close enough to a critical index threshold that a single bad week could trigger $2.4 billion of forced selling, even as the company's own…
