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Bio-Techne reports Q3 fiscal 2026 results today against a complicated backdrop: the stock has rebounded sharply but executives have been selling heavily into the rally, short interest has climbed to its highest level…
Sterling Infrastructure heads into the post-earnings session as one of the week's most dramatic stories in US equities: a 51% single-day gap on Monday, a 71% gain on the week, and a price of $806 that its own analyst…
SBUX has had a remarkable week. The stock is up 8% in five sessions to $104.94. That gap between the stock's momentum and the street's lingering caution is the tension worth watching. The post-earnings move tells the…
Southwest Airlines reports Q1 2026 results on May 7 — and the setup is less clean than the stock's recent gains suggest. The stock added 4.5% on the week and 3.5% on Tuesday alone, closing at $39.71. That recovery is…
Sonic Automotive has rallied 21% in a month and just posted record EchoPark profits — yet the stock still carries nearly 12% of its float in short positions, and the biggest analyst on the register just kept his target…
Skyworks Solutions heads into the back half of the week in an unusual position: a stock with 15.5% of its float sold short just rallied 19% in five sessions, leaving bears nursing a painful squeeze after a decisive…
Simulations Plus has a compelling story to tell this week: a brand-new collaboration with Nvidia to scale GPU-accelerated, AI-assisted drug modeling workflows — announced on May 6 — landed as the stock was already up…
Service Corporation International enters the week of May 6 nursing an 8% decline — its worst weekly move in recent memory — after an earnings report that sent the stock down more than 6% in a single session, and…
Henry Schein reported Q1 2026 results on May 5 with short sellers still firmly in the trade and the Street more divided than the headline numbers suggest. The clearest story this week is one of building short interest…
ROK is having its best week in months. The stock closed Tuesday at $435.93, up nearly 9% on the day and 8.6% over the week, after reporting Q2 results that beat consensus estimates. A cluster of analyst target…
Repligen Corporation heads into its May 14 Q1 earnings with shorts rebuilding from their April peak and a notable divergence opening up between the options market's easing caution and still-elevated bearish positioning…
QCOM enters the first week of May having just posted one of its biggest weekly gains in years — a 24% surge to $186.55 that has left short sellers nursing losses and options traders scrambling to reprice risk. The…
PEG reported Q1 results yesterday and walked away from the print in better shape than the share price suggests. The most interesting tension this week is the gap between a constructive fundamental picture — expanding…
PRU is navigating its sharpest wave of analyst downgrades in months, even as the stock regains its footing with a 3.5% gain on the week. The disconnect is hard to miss. The stock closed at $100.27 on Tuesday, up on the…
BCO entered its Q1 2026 earnings release today with one of the sharpest short-selling buildups seen in the past two months — and despite a genuine beat on both revenue and profit, the question now is whether that…
Pitney Bowes just delivered its strongest earnings quarter in years — and short sellers are not convinced. Q1 2026 results, released after the close on May 5, beat on both lines. Adjusted EPS came in at $0.47, ahead of…
Pfizer delivered a Q1 beat but the stock ended the week almost flat — and short sellers spent the week adding to positions at a pace that has been building steadily since early April. Short interest is the story that…
Perma-Fix Environmental Services walked into its Q1 2026 earnings day carrying a short book at 7.4% of the free float. That's a meaningful position for a micro-cap nuclear waste cleanup firm. The print itself was ugly:…
Revvity posted a clean earnings beat on May 5, and the market responded — the stock jumped 6.7% on the day and ended the week up 8.4% to $92.30. The setup now is a classic post-earnings tension: a short base that was…
ON Semiconductor delivered one of the more striking recoveries in the semiconductor space this week — a stock that has doubled off its April lows now trades at $102.67, with a 65% one-month gain that has left even its…
