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BNC — CEA Industries — is mid-way through a quiet but consistent short-seller retreat, with the stock up 20% over the past month and the borrowing market growing noticeably looser. Short interest has been easing for…
FVR heads into tomorrow's conference call with a strong Q1 print in its pocket — and an analyst community that is only beginning to warm up to the stock. Q1 FFO of $0.34 per share came in 21% ahead of consensus…
PSUS launched on April 29 at a discount — and the story of the week is how aggressively the entire Pershing Square team moved to backstop it. The headline number is the insider buy. On April 30, the day after the IPO…
Six Flags Entertainment reports Q1 2026 results tomorrow with nearly one in five shares of its float sold short — and JP Morgan warning investors to stay away. Short interest is the defining tension heading into this…
LB enters its Q1 2026 earnings call — scheduled for May 7 — with short sellers at their most aggressive in over a month and the stock quietly 4.5% lower than it was 30 days ago. Short interest is the clearest tension…
Seaport Entertainment Group enters its Q1 2026 earnings print with short sellers quietly trimming exposure — even as the numbers just released make clear why they kept a meaningful position in the first place. The…
CTRI heads into the post-earnings session carrying its biggest month-long run in recent memory — up 39% over the past month and 17% on the week alone — after blowing past first-quarter estimates on both revenue and…
Ibotta enters its Q1 2026 earnings print — due May 13 — with a story of two competing pressures: a stock that has surged 62% year-to-date and a short base that remains deeply dug in, even as rising put demand suggests…
TBBB enters the week after earnings with a split verdict: strong revenue but a wider-than-expected loss per share, a combination that captures the central tension in the BBB Foods investment case right now. Q1 results…
Guardian Pharmacy Services enters the post-earnings period having delivered a clean beat — but with short sellers who spent six weeks building positions now facing a squeeze they didn't quite get. Q1 results landed…
NCR Atleos Corporation reported first-quarter results after the close on May 6, and the headline numbers fell short — earnings of $0.65 per share missed the $0.87 consensus, while revenue of $1.04 billion came in just…
TKO Group Holdings reported Q1 results after Wednesday's close — a mixed print that perfectly mirrors the tension that had been building in positioning all week. The headline numbers tell a split story. Revenue of…
Knife River Corporation reported Q1 2026 results on May 5 that beat on both lines, yet the stock dropped 3.5% the next day — a setup where the numbers impressed but the market found reasons to pull back anyway. The…
Crane NXT heads into its Q1 2026 earnings call — confirmed for May 7 — with short sellers at their most aggressive position in at least six weeks and the stock down 5.8% year-to-date after a brief recovery from April…
LQR House Inc. heads into its May 14 earnings release with short sellers clearly in retreat — a notable turn for a micro-cap advertising stock that has been heavily borrowed across much of the past two months. The most…
Mineralys Therapeutics entered its Q1 results week with short sellers quietly adding pressure and options traders having already rotated to a more bullish stance — a setup that frames the next catalyst squarely around…
Arq, Inc. headed into its Q1 2026 earnings — reported after the close on May 6 — carrying the weight of a brutal March selloff, and delivered a beat on both lines. Q1 EPS came in at -$0.02, ahead of the -$0.04…
Skyward Specialty Insurance Group reported Q1 2026 results after the close on May 6 that beat estimates on both top and bottom lines — and the headline numbers land at a stock that spent most of the past week sliding…
HMH Holding Inc. enters its May 7 earnings call carrying the most bullish analyst backdrop of its short listed history — and a borrow market that has dramatically unwound from April's extremes. The single defining…
Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings just reported its most painful quarterly miss in recent memory, with a beat-or-bust earnings print landing firmly in bust territory — and the stock enters the aftermath already down…
