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NYAX enters the back half of August in freefall, with a brutal earnings reaction driving a 23% weekly collapse and the ORTEX short score climbing to its highest reading in the past two weeks. The catalyst was…
Vera Therapeutics has passed its Q2 earnings test and the result was ugly — the stock fell nearly 8% on August 10 following the print, and another 4% the day after, leaving it at $30.29 and down 28% over the past…
Sagimet Biosciences enters its August 18 earnings event carrying one of the more contradictory setups in small-cap biotech right now: short interest near the highest level of the year, yet the borrow market remains…
Similarweb reported earnings today — August 12 — with the Street's most notable response arriving the same morning: a conviction upgrade from Northland Capital Markets that doubled the price target and moved the story…
Seagate Technology Holdings heads into mid-August with a rare divergence: a week of modest selling pressure paired with the most bullish options read in over a year. The options market is the most striking signal right…
DigitalOcean enters the post-earnings period with a notable split in signals: shorts are exiting at pace while options traders have turned unusually bullish, yet the stock itself has dropped 6.2% this week to…
Global-E Online enters the post-earnings period with an unusual split: analysts raising targets and the founding team steadily cashing out. Earnings arrived on August 12, and the Street's reaction was swift. Piper…
Coinbase Global enters the week after its Q3 earnings call with one clear development: the short sellers who rebuilt aggressively after the July 30 miss are now covering, and the question is whether that's conviction…
APA Corporation enters the second half of August having done something its E&P peers largely haven't — it delivered a 13.5% weekly gain that looks increasingly like a positioning unwind rather than a macro…
Riley Exploration Permian has rallied 8.5% on the week to $36.52, and the story this week is shorts stepping back just as the stock closes in on the Street's revised price targets. Short sellers have pulled back…
AppLovin has lost 37% over the past month and another 6% in Tuesday's session alone — and for the first time since the post-earnings crash, the Street is starting to visibly reset its expectations downward. The analyst…
VOR enters its August 18 earnings report in a genuinely charged position: short interest is massive at a third of the float, yet shorts have been quietly covering for a month while the stock climbs — and the Street…
Hims & Hers Health reported Q2 results on August 10 and the reaction was swift and negative — the stock fell 3.4% the next day and is now down 5.1% on the week to $30.51, extending a month-long slide of more than…
AFRM enters its August 25 earnings print in an unusual configuration: short sellers have been cutting exposure at pace, analysts are racing to lift targets, and the lending market is as loose as it has been all year —…
Expand Energy Corporation enters the week with its stock up 5.6% — a solid move, but one that still trails several of its natural gas peers — while options traders have turned more cautious than at any point in…
AbCellera Biologics has delivered the post-earnings explosion that the crowded short setup was threatening — a 60% weekly surge that has reshuffled every layer of the trade. The catalyst was the August 10 earnings…
Airbnb has added another 23% in a week, clearing $185 and leaving the Street's freshly raised targets already looking stale — while CEO Brian Chesky quietly sold nearly $17 million of stock into the move. The insider…
California Resources Corporation heads into mid-August with its short sellers in notable retreat and options positioning at its most bullish extreme of the past year. The clearest signal this week is the sharp…
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals heads into its August 12 earnings release carrying a 14% gain on the week, a short base that has been quietly building for a month, and an options market that has just turned meaningfully less…
Claritev Corporation has had one of the more dramatic weeks in its short life as a public company, posting a 32% gain after a blowup earnings print that left shorts scrambling and analysts racing to lift their…
