Trader notes, earnings previews, Confluences, weekly digests and roundups — long-form analysis grounded in ORTEX short interest, options flow and analyst data.
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Coupang entered this week carrying a heavier narrative than most — a Q1 earnings print that revealed the first annual net loss since 2021, a Citigroup downgrade landing the same afternoon results hit, and a stock that…
AppLovin Corporation reports Q1 2026 results on May 7 with an interesting split in its positioning data: shorts have been cutting exposure aggressively into the print, while options traders are quietly loading up on…
OSCR just reported the quarter, and the numbers tell two different stories depending on where you look. Q1 2026 EPS came in at $2.07, more than double the $1.01 consensus estimate. Revenue of $4.65 billion was a 53%…
BMBL heads into the week after its May 5 earnings print carrying the clearest tension in its setup: a 28% one-month price surge that has started to flush out short sellers, yet short interest remains above 13% of the…
Hims & Hers Health arrives at its May 11 earnings call carrying a striking contradiction: short sellers have been cutting exposure at the fastest pace in months, yet short interest still accounts for roughly a third of…
Trinity Capital heads into its Q1 2026 earnings release — filed today — with short sellers quietly rebuilding positions and the borrow market at its tightest all year, even as the stock has climbed more than 13% over…
Sotera Health Company posted a Q1 earnings beat this week, reaffirmed its 2026 revenue outlook, and unveiled a CEO transition — yet short interest has climbed more than 50% over the past month, raising an obvious…
Upstart Holdings heads into its May 28 Q1 results with short sellers stubbornly dug in and the options market turning measurably more defensive — a combination that leaves the stock in a charged position after a…
EZGO Technologies Ltd. is one of the most charged short-selling setups in the micro-cap space right now — a stock up 55% in a single session while short interest simultaneously quadrupled and the cost to borrow…
Advantage Solutions arrives at its May 8 earnings call looking almost unrecognisable from a month ago — the stock has more than doubled off its lows, reported short interest collapsed by 96% in a single session, and…
AMWL just delivered its Q1 2026 results and the Street reacted — not with alarm, but with a quiet re-rating that pushes the digital health company's stock toward the centre of its analyst target range for the first…
EOSE enters its May 13 Q1 earnings call carrying the heaviest short positioning in the energy storage sector, an active securities fraud class action, and a stock that has shed 9% in a week despite a 25% bounce over…
PLTR enters the post-earnings week with a familiar problem: results that impressed on fundamentals but unnerved investors on valuation. The stock fell 5.7% on May 5 following Monday's Q1 print, extending a month-long…
Kymera Therapeutics enters its May 7 earnings call with two forces pulling in opposite directions: short sellers have been cutting exposure for six weeks, yet options traders are more defensively positioned than they…
IAC Inc. filed its Q1 results after the close on May 4 and dropped 8% the next day. Yet within 24 hours, nearly every analyst covering the stock raised their price target. That divergence — a punishing price reaction…
Royalty Pharma headed into its Q1 2026 print with options traders already positioned for upside — and the results gave them reason to hold that view. The earnings story is split down the middle. Adjusted EPS came in at…
CHRD enters the post-earnings week with an unusual split: the Street has been upgrading the stock for two months straight, yet options traders just turned the most defensively positioned they have been in weeks. The…
Sphere Entertainment Co. emerged from its May 5 earnings report with one of the most forceful analyst re-ratings it has seen, yet short sellers show no sign of retreating — and that tension is the most interesting…
CARR enters the week on the front foot — a strong earnings print on April 30 sparked a 9.5% single-day gain, and the stock has held most of that move, closing at $64.18, up 3.5% on the week despite giving back 2.6% on…
Digi Power X arrives at the end of the week carrying the most striking tension in its short history as a public company: a transformational contract announcement that sent the stock up 61% in five days, while the…
