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Marriott International reports third-quarter results on November 2, with its shares at $399.30, up 10% over the past month and now sitting above the Street's mean price target of $387.77. The gap between where the…
Mondelez International closed out October with its most interesting week in months, as a strong quarterly result lifted the stock nearly 5% on earnings day and triggered an immediate round of target price increases…
KeyCorp closed Friday at $21.12, up a fraction for the week while most of its closest peers retreated. Zions fell 1.3% on the week and Citizens Financial dropped 2%, making KEY's flat performance look relatively firm…
Intuitive Surgical heads into the final stretch of October nursing a 4.5% weekly loss, even as the analyst community emerged from Q3 results mostly constructive on the robotic surgery franchise. The Street's reaction…
Illumina reported Q3 results on October 29 and the market's verdict was swift: the stock fell 18.3% the following day, closing at $235.99, down 12.4% for the week. That move came against a median gain of roughly 5%…
IDXX enters its Monday earnings report with short sellers adding to positions at the margin, while options positioning has turned more defensive than at any point in the past six months. Short interest has edged up…
HSY closed Friday at $165.61, up 3.3% on the day after reporting Q3 results on October 29. That single-session recovery, however, still leaves the stock down 2.4% on the week, underperforming most of its closest peers.…
Harley-Davidson enters November with one of its more interesting short-side stories in months. A 26% one-month rally has collided with a short position that was still being built as recently as mid-October, creating an…
W.W. Grainger reports Q3 results on 4 November, and the run-up has been unusually calm for a stock carrying a 28x earnings multiple in a softening industrial cycle. Shares closed at $1,359.17 on Friday, up 0.7% for the…
Global Payments delivered the week's most striking reversal in the payments sector: a 17% gain that left the pre-earnings defensive hedges looking badly wrong, with the stock closing at $96.84 on Friday and shorts…
Gilead Sciences closed Thursday at $170.68, up 9.4% on the week, after a third-quarter earnings beat prompted one of the most unified rounds of analyst target upgrades the stock has seen in recent memory. The catalyst…
FITB gained 1.7% over the past week to close at $53.87, outperforming a median peer return of essentially zero, even as short sellers added to positions at the fastest pace in months and JP Morgan raised its target…
FTI Consulting delivered one of its sharpest weekly moves in recent memory, rallying 16.3% to close at $182.84 after reporting quarterly results on October 29 that drove a single-day gain of 15.3%. The tension worth…
Exponent, Inc. enters November with its sharpest one-month rally in recent memory, up 24% to $80.26, and a fresh analyst upgrade giving bulls a concrete upside target to argue around. The most immediate catalyst came…
Short sellers are pushing harder into semiconductor and auto names this week. Wolfspeed tops the pressure gauge with 88.6% of its free float sold short. That figure rose another 4.8 percentage points in the past seven…
Entergy Corporation gained 2.6% over the past week to $110.11, ahead of the median 2.0% advance across its closest peers, yet options traders are running more defensive cover than at any point in recent months. Among…
Enbridge goes into its November 2 Q3 earnings print with short sellers already well clear of the stock and the borrow market offering no signal of renewed bearish conviction. Short interest has dropped roughly 24% over…
Costco keeps climbing, but the options market has not warmed to the rally, and the Street's target compression is becoming harder to ignore with 40 days until the December 10 earnings print. The options signal is the…
CGNX approaches its November 4 earnings release with an unusual dynamic: short sellers have been stepping back sharply while the options market simultaneously tilts toward calls, a combination that sets a notably…
Citigroup heads into the final days of October with a stock that gained 1.7% on the week yet shed 2.5% on Friday alone, a divergence that captures the push-pull running through the name right now. Options positioning…
