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Trader NoteLEGN

LEGN shorts retreat after a strong Q1 beat

Legend Biotech enters the post-earnings week with shorts in rapid retreat and the Street scrambling to reprice a CARVYKTI royalty story that just posted its best quarterly revenue growth in two years. The catalyst is…

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Trader NoteUCL

UCL posts revenue beat but stock still slides

uCloudlink reported Q1 2026 results this morning — a revenue beat against estimates and in-line losses — yet the stock enters the week down 7% and has shed 14% over the past month. The tension is straightforward: new…

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Trader NoteKC

KC Borrow Market Stays Fully Tapped Ahead of May Earnings

Kingsoft Cloud heads into its May 26 earnings call with the lending pool at maximum tightness — and short sellers paying a rising premium to hold positions. The most striking feature of KC's setup is not the size of…

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Trader NoteAI

C3.ai: Bears Build as Earnings Loom

C3.ai heads into its June 3 Q1 report with short sellers adding aggressively, options flipping bullish against the current, and a Street largely unconvinced the company can turn the corner. Short interest is the…

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Trader NoteGTM

ZoomInfo's Earnings Collapse Triggers Wall Street's Verdict

ZoomInfo Technologies entered this week's earnings report carrying a fragile price and a heavy short position. What followed was a rout — and the Street's reaction made the damage worse. The stock crashed 33% on…

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Trader NoteOCG

OCG Borrow Costs Explode as Short Score Climbs

OCG — Oriental Culture Holding — heads into mid-May with its borrow market in a state of acute stress, sitting sharply at odds with a short interest percentage that remains modest on its own terms. The cost to borrow…

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Trader NoteBYD

Boyd Group Drops 13% Post-Earnings Despite Record Revenue

BYD delivered what looks like a textbook mixed quarter — and the market responded harshly. Q1 2026 was, by most headline metrics, a genuine record. Revenue hit CAD $997 million, up 28% year-over-year and the highest…

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Trader NotePNTG

PNTG Shorts Retreat After Strong Q1; Moratoria Risk Looms

The Pennant Group has had an eventful week — a blowout Q1 print drove the stock up 13%, analysts lifted targets across the board, and short sellers retreated sharply. Then, on Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare &…

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Trader NoteBX

Blackstone shorts retreat as deal flow accelerates

BX enters this week as one of the more constructive setups in alternative asset management: short sellers have cut their positions sharply, the stock is close to flat on the week despite broader market chop, and a…

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Trader NoteDT

DT beats but guidance disappoints, stock slides post-earnings

Dynatrace delivered a clean Q4 FY2026 beat on Tuesday — then watched the stock slide roughly 10% in after-hours trading as guidance for the coming year landed softer than the Street wanted. The numbers themselves were…

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Trader NoteCHWY

Chewy Shorts Surge Ahead of May Earnings

CHWY heads into its May 27 earnings report with short sellers rebuilding at the fastest pace in months — even as the Street remains broadly bullish. Short interest has become the defining story of this week. SI as a…

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Trader NoteTHNQ

THNQ shorts triple in a month as AI ETF surges

THNQ — the ROBO Global Artificial Intelligence ETF — enters the back half of May with a notable tension at its core: the fund has rallied almost 28% over the past month, yet short interest has done something far more…

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Trader NoteMIST

MIST shorts cover hard into Q1 earnings miss

Milestone Pharmaceuticals enters the post-earnings session with a split signal: shorts retreated sharply ahead of the Q1 print, yet the numbers themselves disappointed. Short interest collapsed 26% in the week to May…

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Trader NoteYJ

Yunji shorts rebuild as price momentum fades

YJ enters mid-May with a quiet but clear tension: the stock has gained nearly 4% on the week and 19% over the past month, yet short sellers have been adding at their fastest pace in weeks — a mild divergence that is…

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Trader NotePLMR

Analysts cut targets as PLMR slides 15% in a month

Palomar Holdings enters mid-May under visible analyst pressure — two firms trimmed price targets in the past three days, the stock is down 15% over the past month, and options traders are as bullish as they have been…

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