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Three distinct signals converged on PBR.A this week. Options traders are overwhelmingly bullish. Short sellers are retreating. And the borrow market is quietly repricing. The standout is the put-call ratio. It hit…
Earnings delivered. The stock did not survive them. SECZ fell roughly 25% in the month through August 17. Now the options market is catching up. The put-call ratio hit 0.27 on Monday — 2.5 standard deviations above its…
Options positioning on SPCX just hit a record high put-call ratio. The covering wave has paused. Those two facts, arriving together, define the current moment for Space Exploration Technologies. The put-call ratio…
Retail earnings dominate the week ahead. Target and Lowe's both report Wednesday morning. Markets will treat these as a live read on US consumer health. Both carry low short interest — 3.6% and 2.0% respectively —…
Earnings season is shaping up to be the key options driver. Several names show unusual positioning heading into Q2 prints this week. Webull stands out for a rare reason: options are unusually calm despite elevated…
Altius Telecom Infrastructure Trust walks into its August 20 results carrying a familiar overhang: its majority shareholder keeps reducing its stake, and the stock has barely moved all year. The most defining feature…
JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — reports Thursday morning with bears as entrenched as at any point in the current pre-earnings run, and the stock pulling back 3% on Monday to close at PLN 27.4. The lending market…
NKLR heads into today's earnings print with options traders making a sharp pivot toward calls — a notable shift against a backdrop of expensive borrowing and a still-elevated short score. The most striking signal is in…
EMAT arrives at its August 20 earnings date carrying one of the most punishing year-to-date drawdowns in its peer group, with the borrow market signalling that short sellers remain firmly committed to the trade. The…
BULL reports Q2 2026 results on August 19 against a backdrop where short sellers have quietly built a meaningful position — yet options traders are showing almost no concern about the outcome. Short interest has…
DRUG enters its August 20 earnings event with one of the more striking positioning shifts in recent weeks: short sellers have cut their exposure by more than 70% over the past month. Short interest has collapsed from…
Wall Street turned bullish on several names today. Two upgrades stood out from the crowd. Tapestry received an upgrade from analysts, with the consensus target now sitting at $167. The luxury handbag maker carries a…
XP Inc. reports after the close today with a familiar gap between analyst conviction and market reality — the stock has drifted 6% lower over the past month to $15.70, even as the Street keeps Buy ratings intact and…
Corporación América Airports reports today with the stock down roughly 4% on the week to $24.01, extending what has become a steady drift lower even as the Street's price targets sit well above the current price. The…
HTHT heads into its August 20 earnings report on a sharp rebound, with options positioning flipping unusually bullish even as the CEO's recent selling spree looms over the setup. The most striking signal comes from…
ROST heads into its August 20 print with a notable split: analysts are raising targets, but options traders are hedging harder than at any point in months. The clearest change since the last note is in options.…
HIVE Digital Technologies reports today with the data telling a markedly different story than it did three days ago — the stock has reversed sharply higher, and the borrow market has slammed shut again. The most…
OSIS heads into its August 20 earnings report with short sellers in clear retreat — but the stock still carries a meaningful bearish overhang that makes the print consequential. Short interest has fallen sharply over…
The biggest insider story this week is H&M's controlling family loading up on stock. Stefan Persson — a close relative of the founding Persson family — filed on August 17 that he bought 3.1 million HM B shares across…
LZB reports its fiscal first-quarter results today after the close, with the options market and short interest both telling a relaxed story heading into the print. Options positioning is notably bullish, even against a…
