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SEIC is the least crowded name among its closest asset-management peers, yet it now carries more short interest than at any point in at least a year, a divergence that sits oddly against a wave of analyst upgrades…
BlackBerry heads into the final stretch of October with its stock up nearly 8% on Tuesday alone, yet the lending market is barely flinching, a split that tells you something about who is driving this move. The stock…
Booking Holdings gained 4.1% over the past week, a decent bounce, but it was the slowest mover in its peer group. Expedia added 10% over the same stretch, Airbnb rose 6.9%, and Travel + Leisure climbed 6.6%. BKNG's…
BANF shares rose 3.2% on the week to $110.16, matching almost exactly the median gain of its closest peers. That tight alignment masks a positioning picture that is notably less charged than the regional bank…
Pinnacle Financial Partners reports Q3 results on October 22 with a sharp one-day spike in options defensiveness sitting at odds with a week that saw short sellers quietly reduce exposure. The options market delivered…
Old Second Bancorp reports third-quarter results tomorrow, October 22, with a pair of signals pulling in opposite directions: short interest has climbed sharply over the past month even as options traders lean more…
Oceaneering International reports Q3 results tomorrow, and the clearest positioning story this week is not in the short book but in the options market, where call demand has surged to its most extreme level of the…
NEM reports Q3 results on October 22, and the setup heading in is more interesting for what the Street is doing with its pencils than for anything happening in the borrow market. Citigroup raised its price target on…
NDAQ gained just 1.4% over the past week, a muted result against a median gain of 4.5% for its closest exchange and financial data peers. ICE was roughly flat, but MSCI added 5.5%, CME rose 6.2%, and BLK climbed 5.9%.…
Minerals Technologies Inc. heads into its October 29 earnings release with a wide gap between where analysts think the stock should trade and where the market has taken it. The stock closed at $62.56 on October 20,…
Mattel makes toys, from Barbie to Hot Wheels, and right now the stock is doing something none of its closest peers are: falling behind. Shares gained just 1.1% over the past week while Hasbro jumped 14.2%, Funko added…
M&T Bank rose just 0.2% over the past week while its closest peers averaged gains of 3.5%, a gap that opened after Q3 results landed on October 16 and sent the stock down 2.2% on the day. The analyst response to the…
Lockheed Martin reported Q3 earnings on October 22 with short sellers already in retreat, shares up 8.9% on the week to $548.71, and the borrow market offering no friction to either side. Short interest has been…
Insteel Industries reports Q4 results on October 22 with the most striking feature this week not in the lending market or the short book, but in a sharp rotation in options sentiment ahead of the print. Options…
Horizon Bancorp faces its Q3 earnings release tomorrow with a notable short interest build over the past month, a fresh analyst upgrade on the books, and the stock sitting just below consensus price targets. The most…
Hexcel Corporation makes the advanced carbon fibre composites that go into commercial aircraft wings and defence platforms, and it reported Q3 results on October 22 after the stock had already climbed 6% over the prior…
Heartland Express goes into its October 30 results with a stock down 13% over the past month, two fresh analyst cuts on the tape this week, and an options market that continues to position aggressively for a…
L3Harris Technologies has gained 6% this week to $248.77, a sharp reversal from the month-long drift lower that had the stock down more than 4% heading into last week, and the move lands eight days before the company…
GGG, the Minneapolis-based fluid-handling equipment maker, posted its Q3 earnings this morning after weeks of retreating short interest and a striking shift in options positioning that arrived just in time for the…
GTY walks into its Q3 earnings print today with the short story largely resolved, leaving the fundamental case to carry the weight. Yesterday's earnings preview noted the dramatic unwinding of what had been a crowded…
