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Among the closest peers to CTAS, short sellers have taken heavier positions elsewhere, leaving Cintas as one of the lighter-shorted names in its group even after a month of steady position-building. UNF carries the…
SAM enters its October 27 earnings report carrying the heaviest short position in its peer group, with bears showing no sign of retreat despite a sharp rally in the shares. Short interest in Boston Beer stands at 19.1%…
DASA3 heads into its November 5 earnings date with a remarkable price recovery, a potential index catalyst, and analyst targets that the market has already run well past. The most interesting tension around…
EDR heads into its October 29 earnings report after a brutal October, down 29% in a month and 10% on the week, with silver miners broadly under pressure but the stock's own valuation reset the more pressing…
Loblaw Companies Limited heads into its November 19 earnings date with the stock under mild pressure and a curious spike in borrowing costs against a backdrop of near-zero short interest. The most interesting tension…
Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure is heading into its November earnings update with a quietly interesting divergence: the stock has recovered sharply from recent lows while short positions have been rebuilt at an unusually…
Lundin Gold heads into its November 4 earnings release down 10% on the week and 11% over the past month, even as short sellers remain a negligible presence and the borrow market stays wide open. The price move is the…
HBM enters its October 29 earnings release having shed another 8% this week to CAD 30.76, extending a bruising month that has now cost the stock 21%. The sell-off deepens a decline that was already visible in the…
St. James's Place reports on 29 October with the stock trading at a meaningful discount to where analysts think it should be, and earnings-day history that is reliably uncomfortable. The most striking tension in the…
ROOT enters its November 4 earnings window in an unusual configuration: short interest remains elevated at 15.5% of free float, yet options positioning has turned the most bullish it has been in months, and the stock…
Lancashire Holdings heads into its November 6 Q3 results as a notable laggard in a specialty insurance peer group that has re-rated sharply higher this week. The peer divergence is the sharpest tension in the setup…
News Corporation heads into its November 4 earnings release with a new analyst initiating coverage, short sellers retreating and the stock at its highest level in months, a reasonably clean setup for a media name that…
Centerra Gold heads into its October 29 earnings release with the stock down 11% over the past month and the borrow market too relaxed to signal any conviction from the short side. The sharpest story this week is the…
Saputo heads into its November 5 earnings release with short sellers quietly rebuilding positions and the stock trading near a one-month high. The most interesting tension this week is the gap between what short…
Global Ship Lease heads into its November 10 results with a striking pattern of insider selling, even as analysts lift their targets and the stock holds near multi-year highs. The insider story is the most telling…
AST SpaceMobile enters the week of October 22 with the stock down 30% over the past month, a pair of conflicting MSCI rebalance signals coming into focus, and Q3 earnings just 19 days away. The borrow market remains…
Croda International heads into its November 11 results with the best one-month price performance in some time, a benign lending market, and a track record of beating expectations that gives bulls something concrete to…
CTVA heads into its November 11 earnings report with the stock at a multi-year low, analyst price targets in freefall, and retail attention running at an unusual extreme. The analyst picture tells the sharpest story…
FRoSTA Aktiengesellschaft (NLM) reports on October 27, and the most telling signal ahead of the print is not coming from the lending market or the Street: it is coming from inside the building. Management Board member…
Johnson Controls International arrives at its October 27 earnings release in a tighter spot than last week: the stock has pulled back 0.9% over the past five days to $151.02, giving back some of October's 5.4% gain,…
