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Equitable Holdings reports Q3 results today with the quarterly print almost beside the point: the agreed acquisition of Corebridge Financial continues to dominate the investment case, setting off index rebalance…
Howmet Aerospace has recovered sharply from its late-October collapse, gaining 9.6% over the past week to close at $212.99, a reversal that puts the November 6 print in an entirely different context from the one…
Johnson Controls International delivered a strong fiscal Q4 print on October 27, jumping nearly 7% on the day, but the stock has since given back ground, falling 6% over the past month to $146.49 and slipping 0.7% over…
Arista Networks enters its Q3 earnings report on November 3 with the stock down 21% over the past month to $164.14, and options traders markedly more cautious than they were four weeks ago. The clearest shift is in…
CNH Industrial heads into its November 6 earnings release with options traders making an unusually aggressive call-side bet, even as short sellers have been walking away from the trade over the past month. The options…
UI arrives at its November 6 earnings release having shed 13% over the past month and 7.6% in the past week alone, a steeper drop than the median peer decline of 1.5% over that same period. The price move is the…
DOC options positioning has shifted more sharply into protective territory than at any point in recent months, even as short sellers have been quietly stepping back from their positions. The put/call ratio jumped to…
UDR, Inc., the apartment REIT that owns and manages around 60,000 homes across coastal and Sun Belt markets, reports Q3 2026 results today with the stock up 8% over the past month and outperforming nearly every…
WTRG reports Q3 results today with the quarterly print almost entirely overshadowed by a pending acquisition from AWK, and the index mechanics that follow from it. The deal context reshapes every positioning metric.…
Among the large environmental and facilities services names, RTO carries a relatively modest short position compared with more crowded peers in pest control. Short interest on the NYSE-listed ADR has climbed roughly…
YPF shares have lost 11% over the past month and another 7% in Monday's session alone, pulling the Argentine oil producer to $43.85 ahead of its November 6 quarterly print. That move has widened the gap to the analyst…
WMB fell 4.3% on Monday to $71.19, its sharpest one-day drop in recent weeks, yet options traders have swung to their most call-heavy stance of the past year heading into today's earnings release. The options shift is…
SNN drops its third-quarter numbers on Thursday with two unusually concrete data points framing the result: a short position that collapsed nearly 19% in a week, a move that sits two standard deviations below the…
Republic Services is the least-shorted name in its peer group heading into Thursday's print, with short interest at 1.4% of the free float while closest rivals Waste Management and Waste Connections carry more…
RELX enters Thursday's results as one of the least-shorted names in European-listed information services, a contrast worth spelling out before the print. Among its closest structural peers, short positioning against…
Realty Income Corporation reports Q3 results on November 4, a net-lease REIT that has spent the past six weeks watching analysts cut price targets while the stock quietly recovered from its October lows to $57.58. The…
Public Service Enterprise Group, the New Jersey electric and gas utility, releases Q3 results today after a week in which short sellers made an unusually large exit and call buying rose to near its most dominant level…
PPL Corporation, the Pennsylvania-Kentucky-Rhode Island regulated utility, reports third-quarter results on Thursday after a week in which the shares gained 3.5%, modestly outpacing the median 2.7% advance among its…
McDonald's rose 5.9% over the past week to $265.64, outpacing a median gain of roughly 2.4% across its closest restaurant peers and extending a 14.6% gain over the past month. That recovery puts the stock well ahead of…
Humana reports third-quarter results on Thursday, and the most striking development in the run-up is not the stock's modest 5.7% monthly recovery to $410.41, but the sudden acceleration in bearish positioning over the…
