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Bernstein analyst Varun Govindaraj raised price targets across five industrial stocks in a single session. The sweep covers JCI, EMR, TT, ROK, and PH. The biggest move was Parker-Hannifin. Bernstein lifted its target…
Bill Gates filed this week to disclose he bought $100M+ in RSG shares. The Republic Services purchases — spread across August 10–11 — add to his already sizeable waste-management bet. Gates paid roughly $216 per share,…
Short sellers turned aggressive this week. The latest ORTEX data shows clear patterns — semiconductors, biotech, and a private-prison play all saw notable increases. WOLF sits at 85.2% SI of free float — up 6.9…
Ten days after Wayfair surged 30% on earnings, the options market is flashing its most bearish signal in nearly three weeks. The put-call ratio hit 1.12 on August 13. That is a z-score of 3.75 against the 20-day mean…
RDDT heads into the week of August 14 with a notable tension: short interest has climbed meaningfully since late July even as the stock bounced hard off its post-earnings lows, setting up a tug-of-war between…
PINS has handed back most of its post-earnings pop, sliding back to $23.32 after touching $25.58 the week of results — and the most consistent sellers in recent weeks have been the people who built the company. The…
ERIC enters the autumn earnings cycle carrying the weight of a brutal July report — and with the next results date just two months out, the question is whether the stock's modest recovery is building on solid ground or…
AST SpaceMobile has delivered its most significant change in short positioning in months, with bears covering at scale following the August 10 earnings release — yet the stock, at $71.52, is still down 3.8% from its…
SMR enters the week carrying real momentum, up 6.7% over the past five sessions and 2.8% on Thursday alone, yet that rally sits against a backdrop of sharply divergent peer performance and a fresh earnings scar that is…
Latitude Group Holdings enters its August 21 results with a lending market that tells a more interesting story than the flat price action suggests. The standout this week is cost to borrow. Borrow costs have jumped to…
Semiconductor bulls dominated the tape Friday. NVDA and MU drew the heaviest bullish options flow among large caps. MU is up 232% this year. NVDA sits near $5.4 trillion in market cap. AMD, up 125% year-to-date, also…
Wall Street is turning bullish on storage hardware. Two separate firms raised targets on SNDK today. RBC Capital lifted its price target to $1,600, up from $1,300. Wells Fargo followed with its own raise to $1,550 from…
Storage and semiconductor names dominated analyst desks on August 14. Two separate firms raised targets on SNDK following strong momentum in the flash storage market. RBC Capital lifted its target to $1,600 from…
Bill Gates filed fresh purchases in RSG this week. The filings, reported on August 12, show he spent over $100M across three separate buys in Republic Services, picking up roughly 466,000 shares at prices between $214…
Short sellers are busy. ORTEX data as of August 13 shows notable moves across biotech, semiconductors, and retail — with some names seeing covering activity too. REPL (Replimune Group) saw the sharpest rise. Short…
Japan ETFs shed a net $75.8B in the past week. That is the largest single-geography outflow by far. The contrast with the prior three months is stark. Over that period, Japan had attracted $81.2B — making it one of the…
The unwind that started mid-August has accelerated. Three separate data streams now point the same direction on XLU: shorts are covering, the borrow market is loosening, and options traders are the least defensive…
Semiconductor stocks are driving the bullish mood in US markets today. NVDA and MU sit at the top of positive options flow rankings, with AMD close behind. All three have posted massive year-to-date gains. Short…
Options data shows sharply divided sentiment across US markets this week. Bullish bets dominate semiconductors. Bearish flows are clustering in names with big year-to-date losses. NVDA and MU sit at the top of the…
A packed earnings slate greets investors this week. Home Depot is the headline act. It reports Tuesday, August 18. The retail giant's results will test how consumers are holding up under continued pressure. Also on…
