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Fabrinet heads into its August 17 print with shorts continuing to retreat and the debate shifting squarely to whether the stock can close the gap between its current price and what analysts believe it is worth. The…
Short sellers are turning aggressive on several names this week. Replimune Group tops the movers, with SI % of FF jumping to 37% — up 9.3 percentage points in just seven days. That's despite the biotech stock rallying…
Credicorp hits its Q2 earnings release today with positioning that remains relaxed — but the analyst community has grown more fractured since the last preview, and the stock has slipped further from its highs. The…
BHP reports its full-year results on August 17 with the lending market for its ADR telling an unusually tight story heading into the print. Borrow availability has been running near the floor for weeks. For most of…
Semiconductor stocks are dominating the conversation. Options traders are placing heavy bets on both sides in Micron Technology and Sandisk Corporation. Sandisk is up 466% in 2026 — yet it leads bearish options flow.…
Analysts are raising price targets across several names today. Block, Inc. drew the biggest individual call. Canaccord Genuity's Joseph Vafi lifted his target to $100 from $85, maintaining a Buy rating. The fintech has…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. REPL saw the biggest jump — SI % of FF leapt from 32% to 43% in just seven days, a near-11 percentage point surge. Bears are clearly sceptical after Replimune Group's stock…
Japan ETFs bled $75.8B in net outflows over the past week. That is the single largest geographic reversal in the data. Over the prior three months, Japan had attracted $81.2B in net inflows. Sellers now dominate, with…
The chip sector grabbed the spotlight on August 13. Options traders are placing heavy bets on both sides of Micron Technology and Sandisk Corporation. Micron is up 219% year-to-date. Sandisk has surged 466%. The…
The semiconductor sector is dominating options flow this week. Micron Technology and Sandisk Corporation top both the bullish and bearish bets leaderboards. That two-sided action signals a sector at an inflection…
Citigroup analyst Steven Zaccone made contrasting moves in retail on August 13. He cut his target on LOW from $285 to $267 while keeping a Buy rating. That puts the home improvement giant under pressure as the housing…
Filings dated August 12 show a wave of selling at LTH (Life Time Group Holdings). Five insiders unloaded a combined $466 million worth of shares. The two largest trades came from directors John Danhakl and John…
Short sellers are on the move. ORTEX data to August 12 shows sharp divergence between stocks gaining and losing bearish interest. REPL saw the largest SI increase among mid-cap US stocks this week. Short interest hit…
MercadoLibre reported Q2 results on August 5. The pre-earnings borrow spike has fully reversed. Bears have covered, but options traders haven't entirely relaxed. Borrowing costs hit roughly 1.0% ahead of the Q2 print —…
Visa is in a holding pattern — the post-earnings momentum has faded, the stock has given back a little more ground, and the next hard catalyst is still ten weeks away. The price action this week tells a steady,…
Iovance Biotherapeutics enters the new week in a genuinely unusual position — a stock up 55% in five days that still carries one of the heaviest short books in biotech, with options traders now at their most defensive…
Lucid Group is a week past its earnings print and the decompression story is real — but incomplete. The most striking development since last week's note is the collapse in borrowing costs. Cost to borrow has more than…
BABA delivered its August 13 earnings print with the stock already carrying a 13% monthly gain, making the post-print reaction the single most important data point of the week. The earnings history offers a useful…
Options traders are piling into semiconductors. Micron tops bullish flow rankings, up 219% year-to-date. Sandisk carries the highest ORTEX stock score in the screener at 94.92, up 466% YTD. Analysts at Truist lifted…
Options sentiment is sharply split this week. Bullish bets dominate the semiconductor space. Bears are piling into beaten-down names. Micron Technology tops the positive options bets leaderboard with an ORTEX options…
