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ATI closes at $165.59, down 12% over the past month, with short interest at its highest level in at least a year and a string of analyst target cuts landing in the days before Tuesday's results. Short interest has…
Albemarle, the world's largest lithium producer, reports third-quarter results on Wednesday against a backdrop of a stock that has lost 15% over the past month and now trades at $91.00, less than 60% of the consensus…
AFL enters Wednesday's earnings release with short sellers cutting positions at a pace well outside the norm, while its closest insurance peers are mostly treading water. Short interest in Aflac has fallen 12.3% over…
Short sellers have been busy over the past week. WOLF (Wolfspeed) stands out as the most notable mover. Its short interest hit 88.6% of free float, up 4.8 percentage points in seven days. That is one of the highest…
The week opens with a sharp demand warning across the global auto sector. India registered just 85,038 new cars in October 2026, according to ORTEX vehicle registration data. That is the lowest October figure since the…
Put pressure is building across auto and consumer-credit names. ORTEX data shows bears actively piling into homebuilder and auto stocks this week, with Carvana, Hertz and Wolfspeed drawing the heaviest negative options…
India registered just 85,038 new cars in October 2026, according to the India vehicle registration series tracked by ORTEX since 2017. That is the lowest October on record for the series. The previous October low was…
A packed earnings week opens today. AAPL reports after the close on Monday, November 2. AMGN follows on Tuesday. CHTR posts Wednesday morning, and ALL and COR both drop numbers Tuesday. SONY reports Tuesday in Tokyo.…
The most significant open-market insider purchase in recent filings came from UBER. Andrew Gordon MacDonald, the company's President and COO, filed a $4.1M discretionary buy on September 8. He paid market prices for…
JP Morgan's equity desk was busy on Sunday. Analyst Vivek Juneja lifted price targets across six US bank stocks in a single sweep. WFC went to $92, USB to $65.50, TFC to $51.50, RF to $31, STT to $192.50 and PNC to…
Short sellers targeted homebuilders, pharma, and auto-adjacent plays over the past week, with several stocks seeing sharp jumps in borrowing demand. Dream Finders Homes led the movers. Short interest as a percentage of…
The dominant story this week is a sharp split between geographies. The US still leads in raw dollar terms, pulling in $13.3B net over the past week. But the conviction sits elsewhere. China ETFs attracted $11.0B with a…
Carvana delivered the day's biggest surprise. The stock surged 18% after a post-earnings beat, forcing short sellers to trim positions. That is notable given ORTEX Alt Data flagged delinquencies in Carvana's ABS trusts…
Three names are drawing unusual options attention on Halloween: CVNA, FSLR, and GLD, each with a distinct story behind the flow. Carvana carries a short score of 56 and 6.3 days to cover. The stock is down 84%…
PUBLI closed out October with three threads pulling in the same direction: a board director buying shares on earnings day, short sellers in retreat, and a 58% ORTEX-forecast probability of joining the OMX Stockholm…
Voyager Technologies heads into its Monday earnings release with short sellers at their most aggressive since the stock's listing, a 5% weekly gain masking a sharp single-day reversal, and options traders tilting…
001309 heads into its November 6 earnings report having absorbed a brutal month of selling, yet its factor profile and positioning in the peer group tell a more nuanced story than the raw price decline suggests. The…
Legend Biotech enters its November 10 earnings release with short interest still falling but the lending market tightening to its most constrained level in months, a tension that has sharpened since Monday's note. The…
Onto Innovation heads into its November 5 earnings report down 34% over the past month, yet the week that just closed was fractionally positive, a small stabilisation that masks a violent Thursday, when the stock fell…
SMSN is caught in a rare dislocation: record earnings, a record single-day drop, and short sellers who have barely bothered to show up. The October 29 Q3 release confirmed operating profit of 100 trillion won, a…
