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Market Commentary

Earnings Blitz Dominates as Palantir Soars

Earnings season is running at full speed today. Palantir is the headline act after smashing Q2 expectations. The stock jumped nearly 15% after hours. Analysts raced to raise targets — consensus now sits at $185.68.…

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Market Commentary

Earnings Heat Drives Options Signals

Earnings season is shaping options flow across energy, chips, and speculative names this week. PBF Energy stands out as one of the strongest options signals. The refiner carries an RSI of 75 and is up 167% year to…

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Earnings PreviewELF

e.l.f. Beauty Heads Into Earnings With Shorts Retreating Fast

ELF reports its latest quarterly results on August 5 against a backdrop of rapidly unwinding short pressure and a wave of analyst upgrades — a combination that sets a notably different tone from the bearish positioning…

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Earnings PreviewECHO

EchoStar Back at the Table — Now as a Bankruptcy Story

EchoStar returns to the reporting window on August 7, three days after the most consequential print in its recent history — and the question now is not whether the bear thesis was right, but what comes next for a…

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Earnings PreviewLUCK

Lucky Cement Lags Peers Ahead of August 7 Print

Lucky Cement heads into its August 7 earnings release trailing the broader Pakistani cement sector by a notable margin — and the question is whether the upcoming print can close that gap. The price action tells the…

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Earnings PreviewVOYG

VOYG Bears Circle as Stock Rockets 14% Ahead of Earnings

Voyager Technologies heads into today's earnings print as one of the most contentious setups in the aerospace and defense space — a heavily shorted stock that just erupted 14% higher in a single session. Short sellers…

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Earnings PreviewIBTA

Ibotta Heads Into Q2 Print Down 31% With Bears Dug In

IBOTTA arrives at its August 5 earnings report carrying a 31% loss over the past month, 13% short interest, and a CEO who has been selling shares throughout the slide. The most striking feature of the setup is the…

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Earnings PreviewHUT

Analysts Race to Raise HUT 8 Targets Ahead of the Print

Hut 8 Corp. heads into its Q2 earnings report with one of the busiest analyst upgrade cycles in recent memory — yet the stock itself has recovered sharply from a sector-wide rout, and shorts continue to retreat. The…

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Earnings PreviewCORZ

CORZ Surges Into Earnings With Shorts in Retreat

Core Scientific heads into its August 6 earnings report having just posted a 10% single-session gain — while every major crypto-mining peer closed in the red. That divergence is the sharpest data point in the setup. On…

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Earnings PreviewVNOM

Viper Energy Heads Into Print Bucking Its Peer Group

VNOM heads into today's Q2 earnings release having outperformed its Permian peer group over the past month — a gap the print will now need to justify. The most striking feature of the setup is how little short-side…

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Earnings PreviewVTS

VTS Bears Dig In as Short Score Climbs Into Earnings

Vitesse Energy heads into its Q2 earnings print today with a bear camp that is both large and well-entrenched, even as recent weeks show short sellers trimming rather than adding. The clearest signal is the sheer…

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Earnings PreviewBETR

BETR Heads Into Earnings With Bears Dug In Deep

Better Home & Finance enters its August 6 earnings print as one of the more heavily shorted names in the mortgage space. Short interest runs at nearly 25% of the free float — a genuinely elevated reading. The borrow…

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Earnings PreviewWULF

WULF Bucks Mining Selloff Ahead of Wednesday Print

TeraWulf heads into its August 5 results as the lone bitcoin miner moving against its own sector, with analysts actively revising targets higher even as shorts hold a formidable position in the float. The most striking…

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