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Sphere Entertainment Co. jumped 10.1% over the past week to close at $112.84, a sharp reversal after a month that stripped nearly 22% from the stock, yet the short position barely flinched, leaving the two sides of the…
Short sellers have been rebuilding positions in PCOR at an unusually fast clip. Short interest has climbed 28.5% over the past month to 19.7 million shares, or 12.7% of the free float, one of the more aggressive…
Vertiv Holdings slid 14.2% on the week to $203.56, a steeper drop than most of its closest peers, yet short positioning and the borrow market remain notably uncrowded for a stock that just delivered that kind of…
Weatherford International has printed its Q3 results and bounced, yet short sellers are still adding to positions, creating the week's central tension on this stock. The shares closed at $79.34 on October 20, up nearly…
The most striking development for BUG this week is not the ETF's 7% pullback but the coincidence of three signals all flipping in the same direction at once: short interest has nearly tripled in a month, options buyers…
Revolution Medicines gained nearly 8% on Tuesday to close at $196.55, its biggest single-day move in weeks, arriving just 15 days before its November 5 earnings date with analyst conviction at its highest in…
GFL Environmental Inc. reports Q3 results on October 28 with short sellers cutting positions at their sharpest monthly rate in years, leaving the lending market looser than it has been in months. The most striking…
Blackstone reported Q3 results on Thursday and the stock has responded: shares closed at $110.34 on Tuesday, up 3% on the day and recovering from levels that had briefly dipped below $107 in the immediate post-earnings…
DT slipped 1.3% over the past week to $63.64, a notable underperformance against a median gain of 4.6% for its eight closest software peers, yet the Street chose the same moment to raise price targets across the…
Mirum Pharmaceuticals closed Tuesday at $85.07, up 6.8% on the week, yet eight analysts have raised their price targets over the past two weeks without a single downgrade, leaving the stock trading at roughly a 45%…
BridgeBio Pharma enters the week with an interesting tension: short sellers hold a meaningful 10.6% of the free float, yet that position has been quietly shrinking while the stock has gained 6.7% over the past five…
CRWD fell 13% over the past week to close at $227.37, a sharper move than any of its closest cybersecurity peers. PANW shed 14.3% over the same period, and FTNT lost 10.4%, so the sector-wide pressure is real. But the…
The dominant story in IHAK this week is a sharp rotation in how traders are positioning around the iShares Cybersecurity and Tech ETF: short sellers have been cutting exposure at a rapid pace while options traders have…
UBER dropped 3.3% over the past week to $68.94, an awkward divergence from the rest of its peer group. LYFT, its closest comparable, gained 5.3% over the same period. GRAB fell 3%, roughly in line with Uber, but the…
ZM fell 0.7% over the past week to $97.46, a soft performance against a peer group that averaged gains of more than 4%, with INTA up nearly 13% and DOCU advancing 11% in the same period. The busiest desk this week was…
Tradeweb Markets has gained 8.5% over the past week to close at $119.37, outpacing the median move of 3.5% among its closest peers and carrying the stock within touching distance of the analyst consensus target. The…
Lyft enters its November 5 earnings with nearly one in five of its freely traded shares sold short, a position that has grown steadily over the past month even as the stock itself has recovered ground. Short interest…
Western Midstream Partners enters the week with an unusual split in its market signals: options traders are the most call-heavy they have been in months, even as two major Wall Street firms trimmed their price targets…
Dell Technologies makes servers, storage, and PCs. It has been one of the most remarkable stock stories of 2026. This week it dropped 19% to $461.56, yet the bears who should be pressing that decline are instead…
QFIN enters the final stretch of October having shed nearly a third of its value over the past month, yet short interest is only now beginning to rebuild from a trough, and options traders remain conspicuously…
