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MNST delivered results on August 6 that sent the stock down 4.3% — and then watched the Street largely endorse the long-term story anyway, creating one of the more interesting post-earnings divergences in the beverage…
Haemonetics delivered a clean earnings beat on August 6 and the Street responded fast — target prices moved sharply higher across the board, with the stock now sitting at $87.84 and up 17% over the past month. The…
ExxonMobil enters the back half of the week at $153.04 — down 1.2% Friday and off 1.5% on the week — caught between a fresh vote of confidence from one analyst and a sector-wide retreat that left most energy peers in…
Dover Corporation enters the second week of August with a post-earnings recovery story playing out in real time — the stock climbed 3.2% on the week to $211.13, clawing back ground after a bruising July 23 earnings…
Cummins heads into the post-earnings week trading at $644, up 1.6% on the week, after delivering a print that moved the stock roughly 0.2% on the day — a muted reaction relative to the bullish setup shorts and options…
CGNX is trading at $66.89 after pulling back from its pre-earnings high of $70.71, with analysts responding to the Q2 print by lifting targets across the board — the question now is whether the Street's revised numbers…
Carpenter Technology heads into the second half of 2026 with short sellers retreating, options traders the most bullish they have been in months, and the Street caught in a tug-of-war over the right target after last…
Becton, Dickinson and Company has had a decisive week — the August 6 fiscal Q3 print landed well enough to push the stock up 6.8% on the week to $176.86, and the Street moved quickly to reprice its targets upward. The…
Bank OZK enters the August stretch with a striking disconnect at its core: short sellers hold a 13.5% position in the regional lender's free float — one of the heaviest bearish bets in its peer group — yet the…
Albemarle has reversed sharply since its Q2 print, and the bears who piled in ahead of results are now sitting on losses as the stock claws back ground. The Q2 release changed the narrative quickly. Albemarle closed…
Akamai Technologies dropped nearly 7% Thursday — the day after Q2 results landed — leaving the stock down 4% on the week at $110.54, and the post-print reaction has reshuffled the positioning picture in a hurry. The…
Advanced Energy Industries has delivered a standout week — up 12% to $325.02 — yet the options market closed Thursday looking more anxious than celebratory. The clearest tension is in options positioning. The put/call…
AMN Healthcare Services delivered one of its sharpest single-session moves in recent memory this week, yet short sellers have barely flinched — creating an unusual standoff between a rallying stock and a positioning…
FSLR enters the week after its strongest run in months — up nearly 20% in seven days — yet short sellers are quietly rebuilding positions at the same time the entire Street just raised its targets. The tension here is…
Nichiha Corporation heads into the back half of summer having delivered a steady 3.6% gain on the week — a quietly strong result for a Japanese building products name trading at ¥3,200. The most interesting feature of…
HTZ remains the most extreme short position in the market. Short interest sits at 65.4% of free float. Zero shares are available to borrow. The stock is down 56% year-to-date. Options flow confirms the bearish…
Options flow this week splits sharply along sector lines. Pharma names are drawing bullish bets. Beaten-down names are pulling in put buyers. AMGN sits at an RSI of 72. That puts it in overbought territory ahead of its…
Analyst target price revisions dominated Friday's tape. Healthcare names drew the most upgrades while payments tech faced fresh selling pressure. ABBV led the healthcare moves. Analysts lifted the consensus target to…
Insider selling dominated filings this week, with some of America's most recognisable names quietly reducing their stakes. Charles Schwab, founder and co-chairman of SCHW, filed sales totalling over $37M in the past…
Short sellers have been busy this week. SPCX — Space Exploration Technologies — saw the sharpest surge among sizeable names. Its short interest as a % of free float jumped to 36.4%, up from just 3.7% a month ago.…
