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Analysts raised targets across several names this week. Three moves stand out. Lumentum leads the upgrades. LITE saw its consensus target jump to $1,144. That is up from $1,126 just days ago. Short interest sits at…
Insiders filed a wave of significant sell transactions this week. Three separate clusters stand out from recent filings. ILMN board member Keith Meister filed sales totalling over $97M across multiple transactions…
Short sellers moved aggressively into CXW this week. CoreCivic's SI % of Free Float jumped nearly 8 percentage points in seven days — from 2.4% to over 10%. That's a dramatic shift for the private prison operator,…
Short sellers are retreating from CI. Short interest has dropped 33% over the past month. That's the dominant story in this convergence — but it's playing out against a backdrop of analyst downgrades and elevated…
Silence Therapeutics beat earnings on August 10. The stock jumped 23% that day. Now the options market is repricing the trade. The put/call ratio hit 0.49 on August 11. That is 2.5 standard deviations above the 20-day…
Three data points are now pointing the same direction on Apollo Global Management. Short sellers are covering, borrowing costs have collapsed, and options traders are the most bullish they've been all year. Short…
Why this matters: Short sellers are abandoning MNDY positions at an extraordinary pace. SI dropped 32% in a single week to 9.1% of free float — the lowest level in months. Options traders are simultaneously rotating…
Semiconductors are today's battleground. NVDA and MU sit at the top of both bullish and bearish options flow lists. That split is rare. It reflects high tension ahead of NVIDIA's next earnings print. AMD, up 119%…
Analysts raised price targets across several major tech names on August 12. The moves signal growing confidence after recent earnings beats. CrowdStrike saw its consensus target price tick up to $195.39, from $194.67.…
Insider filings this week reveal a split signal from corporate suites — heavy selling at the top, but at least one prominent CEO is betting big with his own cash. The biggest dump came from ILMN. Board member Keith…
Short sellers are piling into beaten-down names this week. Hertz leads the charge with SI % FF jumping to 69.6% — up 5.3 percentage points in just seven days. The car rental giant has shed 66% over the past three…
China ETFs shed nearly $9.8B in a single week. That is the headline number from this week's ETF flow data — and it marks a sharp reversal from the 3-month trend, where China funds had attracted $20.9B. The U.S. remains…
Semiconductors are driving markets on August 12. NVDA and MU sit atop both the bullish and bearish options flow tables simultaneously. That split signals intense two-way conviction ahead of NVIDIA's next earnings…
Options markets are flashing mixed signals on August 12. Bears and bulls are both placing big bets in semiconductors. NVDA and MU sit at the top of both bullish and bearish options flow lists. That split is rare. It…
POET Technologies reports earnings today with one of the most charged short-side setups in the semiconductor space — more than a fifth of its free float is currently sold short, and the cost to borrow those shares has…
Honeywell Aerospace Inc. heads into its August 14 earnings event carrying the full weight of a brutal Q2 miss — and options traders are more anxious ahead of this print than at any point in the past year. The clearest…
EROC reports its first earnings as a public company today against a backdrop that mixes genuine institutional enthusiasm with a stock that has lost ground since its July debut. The most telling story heading into this…
Churchill Capital Corp XI (CCXI) reports today with the lending market telling a notably different story from just six weeks ago — and a roster of institutional arbitrageurs watching closely. The clearest shift is in…
Maze Therapeutics reports today with a notable divergence at the heart of its setup: short sellers have been adding positions steadily, yet the lending market remains far from stressed — leaving the real tension…
Bitdeer Technologies Group heads into its August 12 earnings event carrying the wreckage of a brutal post-earnings sell-off, with short sellers firmly entrenched and options traders now the most defensively positioned…
