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Citigroup drove the bulk of analyst activity on Sunday, issuing a wave of target price revisions across industrials, healthcare, and financials. The sharpest cut fell on CAT. Analyst Kyle Menges trimmed his target from…
Insider selling dominated US equity filings over the past month, with ORTEX screening data showing the heaviest net outflows concentrated in a handful of large-cap technology and financial names. AppLovin stands out as…
Short sellers added aggressively to positions across several names last week. Two standouts are worth watching closely heading into November. Dream Finders Homes saw the sharpest move among mid-cap stocks. Short…
Active management pulled in $15.7B this week. That is the clearest signal in this week's ETF flow data: investors are paying for human stock-picking over passive index exposure at the fastest weekly rate this…
AAPL reports after the close today. At a $5 trillion market cap, it is the single most watched print of the week. MAR releases numbers this morning. AMGN follows tomorrow after the bell, with CHKP and IDXX holding…
Unusual options activity is clustering around a handful of names ahead of a busy week of earnings. The signal from both semiconductor hedges and biotech calls is worth watching. Micron Technology and Advanced Micro…
Voyager Technologies reports after the close on Monday with short sellers holding their largest position since the stock listed, even as the shares recovered most of a bruising October decline. Short interest tells the…
United Therapeutics enters its November 4 earnings report with short sellers still exiting, options tilted toward calls, and a stock up 24% over the past month. The short-covering story that drove last week's 6.7%…
VYLR has slipped harder than its closest peers over the past week, falling 2.9% against a median decline of roughly 1.8% for the most correlated names in the group. The stock closed at $72.40 on October 30, extending a…
VMRK enters Tuesday's earnings release with short positioning that has been building steadily over the past month, though it remains loosely held relative to the lending market's capacity. Among its closest residential…
Q gained 6.2% over the past week while its closest semiconductor peers sold off broadly. ENTG rose 14.8%, but ACLS fell 6.1%, VECO dropped 7.6%, LSCC lost 3.3%, and AMD shed 2.3%. The median one-week move across Q's…
Short interest in SKYD has climbed to its highest level in at least a year, with 144.6 million shares now sold short, up 76% from a month ago. Yet the stock has outperformed its closest correlated peers by a wide…
FIG dropped 12.1% in the past week to $21.65, nearly double the median decline of 5.1% across its closest software peers. ADBE fell 5.2% over the same period, FRSH 5.0%, and MNDY 10.3%, but HUBS matched Figma's pain at…
CRCL, the stablecoin infrastructure company behind USDC, has lost 16% over the past week, closing at $72.54 on October 30 after a 9% single-day drop. That move is roughly twice the pace of decline seen across its…
Short interest in BEPC has climbed to 10.3% of the free float, the highest reading in at least a year, rising 23% over the past month and 5.4% in the last week alone. The borrow market tells a more measured story than…
AAPL kicks off the most important day of the week today. The world's largest company by market cap ($5 trillion) reports after the close. MAR releases quarterly numbers at 7am Eastern this morning. Tomorrow, AMGN…
TKO Group Holdings, the parent of UFC and WWE, reports third-quarter results on November 4. Short sellers have been adding positions steadily through October, and insider selling has accompanied the move, making for an…
SharkNinja reports Q3 results on November 4, with the stock up 14% over the past month and analysts lifting price targets at an unusually concentrated pace in the final days before the release. The analyst activity is…
IonQ short sellers built their position fast over the past month and have not retreated. Short interest now covers 13.2% of the free float, up 14% over the past month and 11% over the past week, with roughly 46.6…
Texas Pacific Land Corporation reports Q3 results on November 4, having shed nearly 2% over the past week while its closest correlated peers gained a median 0.6%, an unusual lag for a stock that had been running ahead…
