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INTU reports fiscal Q4 results on August 20 with the stock down nearly 48% year-to-date and a wall of analyst downgrades shaping the debate heading into the print. The analyst community has turned materially more…
Jack Henry & Associates heads into its August 18 earnings report with short sellers visibly stepping back — even as the stock itself slides into the print. Short interest has fallen sharply and consistently. It dropped…
DDS reports again on August 21 — a second earnings event in a week, following the bruising 11.8% single-day drop on August 13, and the short base has not flinched. Short interest has edged higher. It rose nearly 3% on…
CRCL enters Wednesday's earnings release mid-squeeze: the stock has rallied 23% over the past month to $74.59, up another 4% on Monday alone, while short sellers who built positions earlier in the summer are still…
BEKE heads into its August 21 earnings with the options market leaning bullish, borrowing conditions eased materially from July's tighter levels, and a stock that has quietly slipped 5% over the past week. The most…
Ubiquiti reports fiscal Q4 results on August 21 carrying a stock that has quietly re-rated higher, a short base that has been retreating for a month, and a borrow market comfortable enough to suggest no meaningful…
WOLF leads US short interest at a crushing 85.6% of free float — and bears added another 6.3 points in just one week. Availability is zero. That means there are no shares left to borrow. Short sellers are locked…
Williams-Sonoma heads into its August 21 earnings report surrounded by a rare wave of analyst target upgrades, against a stock that has dipped 4% on the week to $240.42. The analyst activity heading into this print is…
IBN heads into its August 21 earnings release with options positioning tilting more defensive than it has been in months, even as short sellers quietly reduce their exposure. The clearest shift is in options. The…
HDB heads into its August 19 earnings release with options traders pricing in more caution than at almost any point this year. The clearest signal is in the options market. The put/call ratio has climbed to 0.70, more…
Earnings season delivers a retail stress test this week. Walmart is the main event — analysts estimate up to $42 billion in market cap could swing on its results. Target and Lowe's both report Wednesday morning. Ross…
Tuesday delivers the first major read. IRIDEX Corporation drops Q2 results today after the close. The Progressive Corporation also posts July numbers tonight. Tomorrow is the busiest day. Estée Lauder reports Q4…
Macquarie upgraded MGM Resorts to Buy on Monday. Analyst Chad Beynon lifted his target to $55 from $54. The casino operator carries 12.8% short interest of free float. That makes a positive call more pointed. DA…
Bill Gates filed this week that he spent $186 million buying shares of RSG across 14 separate transactions. The purchases ran from August 10 to August 13. Gates snapped up more than 864,000 shares at roughly $215–$216…
Short interest data through August 14 shows a week of big moves. Bears added heavily to several names while covering hard in others. REPL saw the sharpest jump. Replimune Group's short interest leapt to 38.1% of free…
The standout story this week is a sharp reversal in Technology. Over the past three months, Info Tech ETFs pulled in $63.4B — the strongest sector inflow. This week, the same sector shed $1.75B. The flow imbalance…
Semiconductors gave back ground Monday as the chip stock rebound faltered. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed lower. That weakness lands at an awkward time. Sandisk — up 591% in 2026 — and Micron, up 240%, are already…
Options bets are piling into semiconductors. Sandisk and Micron Technology top the ORTEX options activity leaderboard this week — on both the bullish and bearish sides. Sandisk is the standout name. The stock is up…
Analyst activity on August 17 shows a clear divide in the energy sector. Halliburton and SLB both saw consensus target prices trimmed. Expand Energy took a harder hit — Johnson Rice downgraded the natural gas producer…
Bill Gates filed this week that he bought roughly $145M worth of RSG shares across four days. Republic Services, the waste management giant, attracted nearly 730,000 shares from the billionaire philanthropist between…
