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FAST enters the second half of August with an unusual divergence: options traders just turned their most bullish in months, even as short sellers rebuild positions at the fastest pace in more than a year. The sharpest…
DIS heads into the back half of 2026 with its best momentum in months — yet the gap between where the stock trades and where analysts think it should be tells a more complicated story. The stock closed at $106.85 on…
Cooper Companies heads into its September earnings with an unusual tension: options traders are near their most bullish in a year, while short interest has quietly rebuilt over the past week. The options market tells…
Comcast has staged a sharp 13% recovery over the past month while short sellers have been covering at the fastest pace seen in the data — and the question now is whether the rally has legs or simply reflects crowded…
Tapestry enters the post-earnings session sharply lower, with a 20% weekly decline having wiped out months of gains following a Q4 print that landed well below the optimism priced in. The selloff is the dominant fact…
Charles River Laboratories heads into the back half of August with a striking divergence: a 21% monthly rally driven by a blowout earnings reaction, yet insider selling accelerating at almost every level of the…
COF heads into the back half of August with a clean bid — up 4.4% on the week and 10.7% over the past month — while shorts are quietly covering and the lending market remains among the loosest in its peer group. The…
BA heads into the back half of August with a sharply upgraded consensus but a stock that has quietly given back ground — a tension worth watching. The Street turned decisively more constructive on Boeing this month.…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. CoreCivic saw the most dramatic shift. Its SI % of free float jumped from just 2.3% to nearly 10% in seven days. Bears piled in after earnings while insiders sold. That's a +7.6…
Badger Meter heads into the back half of August with short sellers adding positions at their fastest weekly pace in months, even as the stock stabilises near a multi-month low after a brutal earnings reaction. The…
AMETEK arrives at mid-August in a quietly constructive position — a stock that just posted a well-received quarter, collected a round of analyst target upgrades, and continues to attract almost no meaningful bearish…
American Electric Power enters the back half of August with a notable disconnect: its closest utility peers are broadly higher on the week while AEP has slipped, and the options market just flashed one of its most…
Allstate has seen its most dramatic short-interest unwind of the year in the nine days since Q2 results landed — but the analyst community that consensus note flagged as divided has only grown more fractured since. The…
Akamai Technologies has staged a sharp recovery from its post-earnings lows, yet the short interest and options data tell a more complicated story beneath the surface. The most decisive development this week came from…
CoreCivic enters the week after its Q2 print in a dramatically different positioning landscape — short interest has exploded, insiders are selling aggressively, and the borrow market has tightened sharply from the…
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals heads into the back half of August with a notable divergence at its core — short sellers are unwinding positions even as the stock trades at a fraction of where analysts think it should be. The…
BA has entered a quieter phase after weeks of sharp analyst upgrades and short covering activity, and the question now is whether the fundamental story is strong enough to drive the next leg without those…
Short sellers are moving fast this week. Wolfspeed has become the standout semiconductor bear target. Short interest hit 85% of free float — up 6.9 points week-on-week. The stock has lost nearly 49% in three months.…
Analyst activity this week is dominated by a broad sweep of recommendation removals across the US utilities sector. Firms pulled ratings on WEC, Ameren, CenterPoint, CMS Energy, DTE Energy, Sempra, and Consolidated…
Bill Gates filed purchases this week totaling over $100M in RSG Republic Services. Three separate buys hit on August 10–11. Gates paid between $214 and $216 per share across 465,000 shares. The waste management giant…
