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JBL enters the week in a curious position: the stock has climbed 28% over the past month to $333.86, and the Street keeps raising targets — yet virtually every insider with shares to sell is doing exactly that. The…
Ziff Davis heads into its May 6 Q1 results with the most notable shift this month being a sharp retreat in short positions — yet history shows the stock has a habit of punishing those who expect a quiet print. Short…
Viavi Solutions heads into Thursday's post-close earnings release as one of the clearest short-covering stories in the communications equipment space — a 31% monthly price run paired with a meaningful unwind of bearish…
J&J Snack Foods Corp. heads into its Q2 fiscal 2026 report on May 4 with short sellers at their most aggressive level in over a year — and the stock nevertheless up 7% on the week. That tension is the week's defining…
Ionis Pharmaceuticals heads into the week after Q1 earnings with a notable divergence: the Street is growing more bullish while shorts are methodically unwinding, leaving the stock's $74.83 close roughly 25% below…
Iron Mountain reports Q1 2026 results this morning with an unusual mix of signals: short sellers have been cutting exposure, analysts have been raising targets, and company insiders have been selling at pace. Today's…
Investors Title Company approaches its May 4 Q1 2026 earnings call with a quietly interesting setup: shorts have been unwinding for a month, the stock has recovered sharply, and an analyst recently downgraded citing…
Intuitive Surgical enters its Q1 results tonight carrying a 6% weekly loss and a wave of freshly cut price targets — yet the analysts who trimmed are, almost to a firm, keeping their buy-equivalent ratings intact. The…
Intellicheck heads into its May 12 Q1 2026 earnings print with a notable insider signal hanging over a stock that just posted a 56% monthly gain. The insider pattern here is hard to miss. CEO Bryan Lewis has sold…
TULP enters the final day of April with short sellers rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in months — and a recent regulatory filing that may explain why. Short interest has more than doubled over the past week.…
IEI heads into its May 13 earnings report with the stock down roughly 8.6% this week, yet its founder-CEO has been an uninterrupted buyer at every pullback since November. The insider story is the dominant one here.…
LifeMD arrives at its May 6 earnings call with a distinctive setup: short interest is heavy and still growing, yet the stock has just posted its best month in recent memory — a 19% gain — leaving bears and bulls in…
ICCC has delivered its sharpest monthly rally in years, climbing 30% to $8.44 over the past month, with an 8% gain just this week. The timing matters: the stock is moving into a May 15 earnings date while the borrow…
Immersion Corporation heads into the final session of April with an options market that has abruptly pivoted from defended to speculative — while short sellers quietly retreat from a position they built aggressively…
CXDO heads into its May 5 earnings call with short interest at a six-week high and the stock down on the week, creating a tighter-than-usual backdrop for the print. Short sellers have been steadily rebuilding positions…
IMAX heads into its Q1 2026 earnings print today with a compelling contradiction: the chief executive has sold more than $13 million of stock this month, yet the Street's bull camp is intact and short sellers have been…
IDEXX Laboratories heads into its May 5 Q1 earnings call with the stock under pressure, short interest at a one-month high, and analysts cutting targets — a convergence that raises the stakes on next week's print. The…
IEX has had a strong week — up nearly 7% to $217.34 — while short sellers quietly step back, and options traders shift toward a notably bullish tilt ahead of a May 6 earnings call. The most striking feature of this…
IDACORP reports Q1 results this morning with short sellers quietly rebuilding positions heading into the print — a notable shift for a utility that had been unwinding shorts through April. Short interest has climbed…
IBN enters May with a week-on-week loss of 6.5%, closing at $26.56 on the NYSE. The tension is clear: the underlying business just delivered its strongest quarterly numbers in years, yet the ADR has pulled back as…
