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Memory and AI chip names are dominating markets this weekend. Micron leads bullish options bets among large-cap US stocks, up 207% year-to-date with analysts pencilling in a further 71% upside. Sandisk sits on the…
CSCO is the marquee name this week. Cisco reports Q4 2026 results after market close on Wednesday, August 12. The networking giant carries a $479 billion market cap. Analysts will watch closely for signs of AI-driven…
Analysts delivered a split verdict on Friday. Tech software giant WDAY took the sharpest blow — a fresh downgrade pushed its consensus lower. The stock carries 14.6% short interest as a % of free float. That elevated…
Memory and AI silicon are the week's hottest trading arena. Micron leads bullish options flow, up 207% year-to-date. Analysts see another 71% upside from here. Sandisk is the opposite — analysts upgraded the stock, but…
Memory and AI chip stocks are drawing the biggest options bets in the market right now. Micron Technology and Sandisk Corporation top the ORTEX options activity rankings this week. Sandisk is up 411% year-to-date. That…
The most striking calls today cut across tech, industrials, and pharma. WDAY took a downgrade on Sunday. Workday's consensus slipped from Buy to Hold as analysts trimmed conviction on the $36 billion HR software firm.…
Filings published this week reveal a wave of insider selling, with one activist investor leading the charge in genomics. Keith Meister — a board member at ILMN through his asset management firm — filed on August 6 to…
Short sellers made fresh bets across several names this week. The biggest mover was SPCX, the SpaceX tracking stock, where SI % FF rose to 36.4% — up 3.6 percentage points in seven days. Shares to borrow are nearly…
Japan ETFs pulled in $14.0B in net flows last week. That makes Japan the single biggest geographic destination for fresh institutional money right now. The flow imbalance sits at 79 — strong buying pressure. The…
This week is front-loaded with high-profile results. Super Micro Computer reports Q4 2026 on Tuesday. Bearish options flow has been building. Short score sits at 64 and days to cover is 2.5. Cisco Systems reports…
CRWV heads into its August 11 earnings event on a completely different footing than the previous note described: the short sellers who rebuilt aggressively into the August 6 print have since retreated sharply, and the…
Shanghai Smith Adhesive New Material heads into its August 11 results carrying one of the more unusual setups in the specialty chemicals space: a 46% collapse over the past month, followed by a 13% bounce in the past…
AMCR heads into its August 12 earnings report carried by a month of steady gains and a positioning landscape that reads more bullish than cautious. The stock has climbed 7.7% over the past month to $47.86, with a 6.6%…
Performance Food Group heads into its August 12 earnings release with analysts racing to lift targets and options traders quietly adding downside protection into the move. The most striking feature of the pre-earnings…
Analysts delivered a mixed bag of rating changes on Sunday, with enterprise software bearing the brunt of selling pressure while storage and networking names attracted fresh buying interest. WDAY was the most notable…
QXO heads into its August 12 earnings print having rallied 21% in a single week while short sellers quietly exit one of the market's more heavily contested positions. Short sellers have been pulling back with unusual…
Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. heads into its August 12 earnings report with the same core tension from a week ago still unresolved: analysts remain bearish, the stock is trading above every major firm's price target,…
Suzano S.A. heads into its August 12 earnings report with one of the tightest borrow markets in its recent history — a setup that sharpens the stakes on both sides of the trade. The lending picture is striking.…
Coherent Corp. arrives at its August 12 earnings report having added another leg to an extraordinary run — the stock closed Friday at $379.13, up 44% on the week and 13% on Thursday alone — yet short sellers remain dug…
SJM reports fiscal Q1 results on August 12 with a stock that has quietly recovered 6% over the past month — but where insiders and short sellers have both been moving in the same cautious direction. The insider signal…
