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Waida Mfg. shorts flee ahead of May earnings

Waida Mfg. heads into its May 8 results with one of the most decisive rounds of short covering seen in the stock this year — while, paradoxically, the cost of borrowing its shares has tripled. The covering story has…

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System Research: Short Sellers Retreat Ahead of May Earnings

System Research Co.,Ltd. heads into its May 8 earnings with one of the more striking short-covering stories in Japan's small-cap software space this spring. Short interest tells the leading story here. SI peaked at…

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XLG Shorts Rebuild as Mega-Cap Rally Deepens

XLG, the Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF, closed April with its strongest monthly performance in recent memory — up 14.5% — yet short positions rebuilt sharply across the final week, creating an unusual divergence between…

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Chi Cheng Rides a 35% Monthly Rally as Shorts Stay Quiet

Chi Cheng Enterprise heads into the end of April with a striking divergence: the stock has surged 35% over the past month yet short sellers show no signs of responding. The price action is the dominant story this week.…

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Serabi heads into full-year results with upgraded reserves

Serabi Gold reports its full-year 2025 results on 1 May — tomorrow — and the company has handed investors an unusually constructive data point ahead of that release. On 28 April, just days before the full-year print,…

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Ohsho Shorts Build Ahead of May Earnings

9936 heads into its May 15 earnings with short interest building steadily over the past six weeks — the clearest shift in positioning this stock has seen in some time. Short sellers have been quietly accumulating. SI…

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OLPL rides the week — but ORIX anchor dominates

OLP Financial Services Pakistan Limited heads into the final day of April with a quietly positive week, but the bigger story is one of structural ownership concentration rather than short-side pressure. The stock…

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Shorts Unwind as Taiheiyo Cement Heads Into May Earnings

5233 enters its May 11 earnings announcement with one of the more striking positioning reversals in the Japanese construction materials space this month: short sellers have been covering aggressively, borrowing costs…

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Ono Sokki Heads Into May Results on a Sharp Weekly Drop

6858 enters its May 1 earnings announcement having shed 8.3% over the past week — a notably steep move for a micro-cap precision instruments maker where the short base is essentially negligible. The price action tells…

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Oman Flour Mills posts strong Q1 as ownership reshuffles

OFMI enters the final day of April having climbed 7.6% over the past month, with fresh Q1 earnings confirming the momentum has fundamental backing. The most notable development on the ownership side is a large-scale…

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OFCI Rallies 16% on Thin Ice Ahead of May Results

Oman Fisheries Company SAOG heads into the week of May 3 earnings with its shares running hot — up 16% in a week and 7.4% on Wednesday alone — yet against a backdrop of sharply deteriorating fundamentals. The price…

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Shenwan Hongyuan (H.K.) Rallies as Shorts Retreat

218 has gained nearly 16% over the past month, with this week's 4.4% advance capping a recovery that took the stock from HK$1.00 to HK$1.19. The most interesting angle right now is the sharp retreat in short…

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Oman Cement drifts lower after Q1 profit lands flat

OCOI heads into the final days of April having shed just over 1% on the week, with the Q1 earnings result now absorbed — and the market's verdict, for now, is cautious indifference. The stock closed at OMR 0.545 on…

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OEIO Surges 64% in a Month on Thin Float

OEIO — Oman & Emirates Investment Holding Company SAOG — has delivered a striking run for a micro-cap holding company. The stock added 64% in the past month, touching OMR 0.176 at the close on April 29. The weekly gain…

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Omico Catches a Bid — But the Record Is Patchy

OM heads into May carrying its best monthly performance in recent memory, but the earnings history behind that run is anything but clean. The stock closed at PHP 0.112 on April 27, up 24% across the month. The week…

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