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Trader NoteJOBY

JOBY Bears Bailed Early — Q1 Beat Flips the Script

Joby Aviation headed into Tuesday's Q1 earnings print with short sellers at their most aggressive in months — only to see the results land well ahead of expectations and send the stock surging, leaving bears…

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Trader NoteINTA

Intapp posts earnings; shorts retreat as Celeste delivers

INTA heads into the post-earnings session with a story split cleanly in two: a short base that built aggressively into results, and a set of analyst reactions that span the widest possible range on the Street. The…

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Trader NoteGLUE

GLUE Heads Into Earnings With Bears Heavily Entrenched

Monte Rosa Therapeutics reports Q1 results on May 8 with short sellers sitting at their most aggressive in months — and the stock priced well below where the Street sees fair value. The short interest story here is the…

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Trader NoteSOFI

SoFi's Post-Earnings Slide Meets a Growing Short Position

SoFi Technologies enters this week still absorbing the shock of a 12% drop on April 29 earnings day, with short sellers pressing their advantage and the analyst community in full target-trimming mode. Short interest…

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Trader NoteFLYW

Flywire rallies after strong Q1 — analysts lift targets

FLYW just posted its best monthly performance in months, gaining 23% in May alone and closing at $14.53 on Tuesday. The earnings beat on May 5 pulled analyst targets sharply higher, even as peers in the payments space…

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Trader NoteTBLA

TBLA beats Q1, but borrow costs spike post-earnings

Taboola.com headed into its Q1 2026 print this morning as a quiet story. It came out a louder one. The numbers beat on both lines. Revenue came in at $466.4M against a $453.3M consensus estimate. Adjusted EPS printed…

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Trader NoteACT

Enact's Dividend Hike Can't Shake Genworth Overhang

ACT enters the post-earnings stretch with a mixed set of signals: a beat on earnings, a dividend hike that signals management confidence, and yet a stock still weighed down by its parent's persistent selling. Q1…

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Trader NoteSRTA

SRTA Beats and Exits: Shorts Retreat as Earnings Surprise

Strata Critical Medical enters the post-earnings window having just delivered its strongest quarterly beat in recent memory — and the short base is breaking down in response. The Q1 print, released pre-market on May 6,…

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Trader NoteBWMN

BWMN bounces hard as founder keeps selling

Bowman Consulting Group has spent the last month climbing sharply — but the company's founder and CEO is heading for the exit at every step. The stock closed Wednesday at $34.00, up 9.4% on the week and 14.7% over the…

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Trader NoteULCC

Frontier Shorts Retreat as Earnings Loom

ULCC enters its May 14 earnings call with a notable shift underway: short sellers have been covering rapidly, yet the float remains so heavily shorted that even the exit looks crowded. Short interest has dropped…

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Trader NoteGPOR

GPOR: New CEO Shakes Gulfport's Story Wide Open

Gulfport Energy just handed markets a new narrative — fresh Q1 earnings, a brand-new CEO, and options traders flipping sharply bullish all in the same week. The headline story is the leadership change. Gulfport…

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Trader NoteDOCN

DOCN's earnings eruption leaves shorts badly exposed

DigitalOcean has just delivered one of the sharpest post-earnings moves in its history. The stock closed at $152.77 on Wednesday — up 40% on the day and 62% over the past week — after a results print that caught the…

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Trader NoteCOMP

Compass Heads Into May Earnings With Shorts Retreating

COMP approaches its May 14 earnings call with a notable divergence on the tape: short sellers have been covering aggressively since late April, yet the stock still finished the week down 8% at $7.26 — raising the…

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Trader NoteEVGO

EVgo's Earnings Beat Can't Outrun Its Q2 Miss

EVgo enters the post-earnings week looking more complicated than the headline print suggests. Q1 revenue of $109.5 million beat estimates by a wide margin — more than $21 million ahead. The EPS miss was just one cent.…

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