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Short sellers ramped up bets across biotech and semiconductor names this week. Replimune Group saw the sharpest move. Its short interest jumped 10.75 percentage points in just seven days. SI now sits at 38.1% of free…
Coherent Corp. has now survived earnings, a 44% weekly surge, a 14% reversal, and two consecutive post-earnings prints — and the short book keeps growing, even as analysts respond to the results by lifting targets…
JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — arrives at earnings eve with its ORTEX short score at a fresh high, borrow costs at their steepest level in weeks, and the stock up 8% on the week — a setup where the stock and the…
SoundHound AI ends the week with a cleaner short-interest picture than it has seen in months — yet the structural conditions underneath remain almost entirely unchanged. Short interest has continued its post-earnings…
Chips are driving markets from every angle today. NVIDIA, AMD, Micron, and Sandisk are drawing the heaviest options flow on both sides of the ledger. Sandisk is up 591% year-to-date. That extreme run has traders split…
Semiconductors are driving the most active options flow this week. Both bullish and bearish bets are concentrating in the same names — a sign the sector is at a decision point. Sandisk tops the options activity table…
TD Cowen lifted its target on CRWD from $175 to $235, keeping a Buy rating. That is a 34% jump in the target price. Analyst Shaul Eyal also raised PANW from $360 to $400. Both moves signal growing confidence in…
Bill Gates filed fresh purchases in RSG this week. He reported buying over $115M worth of Republic Services stock across three separate transactions. The trades were filed on August 12 and 14. Gates snapped up shares…
Short sellers have been busy. The most dramatic moves this week came from small and micro-cap names, where short interest exploded to extreme levels. INLF saw its SI jump from 436% to 839% of free float in just seven…
Japan suffered the biggest one-week geographic outflow by far. ETFs focused on the country saw $75.5B exit in the past week. Flow imbalance collapsed to just 9.7 out of 100 — deep selling territory. That is a stark…
Why this matters — Convergence signals are rare. They require three or more distinct ORTEX data streams to align on the same ticker within a short window. This week, 22 tickers hit that bar. The dominant theme: short…
Broad defensive positioning dominated options markets the week of August 10. Put-call ratios spiked to multi-year highs across financials, industrials, and post-earnings names. At the same time, a sharp counter-current…
The analyst data pipeline returned no published rating changes for the week of 10–17 August 2026. No upgrades, downgrades, initiations, or target price revisions are available for this period. The sector trends data…
Short covering dominated the week of August 10. PYPL, UPWK, BIDU, and LAUR all shed more than 20% of their short positions in seven days. Against that tide, ENRD, FRMI, and AADX attracted fresh bearish conviction —…
The week of August 10–17 was defined by a broad post-earnings unwind. Short sellers covered across financials, healthcare, and technology as strong quarterly prints forced capitulation. But beneath that surface calm,…
The week of August 17 brings a clear theme: the US consumer. Three major retailers — TGT, LOW, and ROST — report Tuesday and Wednesday, giving markets the clearest read yet on mid-summer spending. Macro prints add…
NVIDIA is front and centre again today. Groq was valued at $3.5 billion in a new funding round following its deal with NVIDIA. Separately, NVIDIA secured land and power capacity in Ohio to host compute for OpenAI — the…
Cantor Fitzgerald initiated coverage across the semiconductor space on Monday. Analyst Matthew Prisco gave NXP Semiconductors and Microchip Technology Buy ratings, with targets of $400 and $125 respectively. He tagged…
Three firms lifted price targets on URGN after a strong earnings print on August 5. That catalyst is still reverberating across the lending market and options desk. Guggenheim, HC Wainwright, and TD Cowen all raised…
Short sellers had a busy week. REPL saw the biggest move among mid-caps. Replimune's SI % of Free Float jumped to 38.1%, up 10.75 percentage points in just seven days. That is one of the sharpest single-week increases…
