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Pinnacle West Capital arrives at its Q2 print today with short sellers still leaning bearish, borrow conditions tightening at the margin, and options traders remaining conspicuously unbothered by the downside. Short…
PPL Corporation heads into its August 7 earnings release with short sellers adding pressure into a stock already nursing a four-week loss. The short interest story is the clearest signal in the setup. Bears have built…
ONEOK arrives at its August 4 print with the same fault line that has defined the setup all week — options traders remain bullish while the analyst community has grown visibly cooler. The call skew that defined last…
McDonald's reports Tuesday with options traders still leaning more bullish than at any point in the past year — even as the stock has lost a further 2% since Thursday's close to $265.23. The options picture remains the…
EMBJ arrives at its August 7 earnings release having shed short interest at a pace that stands out even against a broadly constructive tape — the question now is whether the fundamental delivery matches a stock that…
Short sellers are showing no mercy this week. Chewy and Hertz top the heavily-shorted leaderboard — both sitting above 80% SI % of FF. Bears added to both positions over the past seven days. Chewy climbed to 81.4% from…
Cummins arrives at its August 4 earnings release with the short-selling community notably less convinced of the bear case than it was just weeks ago. Short sellers have been covering steadily and decisively. Short…
AES arrives at its August 7 earnings report with options traders now more bearish than at any point in the past twelve months — a step beyond the cautious positioning flagged in the previous preview just days ago. The…
The Japanese yen grabbed global attention today. It jumped 3% amid speculation of intervention by Tokyo. The New York Fed sold euros to buy yen in what FT described as a "historic" action. That move rippled through…
Options sentiment is clearly bearish for several high-profile losers. Hertz Global Holdings carries a short score of 77 and an RSI of just 26.7. The stock is down 69% year-to-date. That oversold reading hasn't stopped…
Analysts made sharp calls across energy and technology on August 4, with Datadog leading the upgrades in cloud. DDOG saw its consensus target price rise to $274, up from $270. The stock carries a market cap near $89…
Three of the most striking insider patterns this week involve coordinated selling, a high-profile founder offloading shares, and a biotech's backers exiting fast. SkyWest sweeps the board. SKYW CEO Chip Childs, CFO…
Short sellers are stepping up pressure on two retail-facing names. Hertz Global Holdings saw its SI % of Free Float jump to 80.9% — up from 62.2% a month ago. That's an 18.7 percentage point spike in 30 days. The car…
Institutional money is pouring into equities at pace. This week alone, ETFs attracted $68.6B in net equity flows. That dwarfs every other asset class combined. The U.S. led all regions with $19.8B in net inflows this…
HealthStream reported earnings on August 4. Ahead of the print, short sellers made their most aggressive move in months. The convergence of rising shorts, elevated put demand, and a cost-to-borrow spike tells a…
Earnings season is in full swing. Palantir and Vertex Pharmaceuticals both reported after the close. ON Semiconductor CEO confirmed AI data remains the fastest-growing part of the business. Short sellers should take…
The options market is sending mixed signals in tech. Memory and storage stocks dominate both bullish and bearish flow this week. SNDK tops the negative bets leaderboard by options value. The stock is up 412%…
Truist Securities downgraded INTU to Hold from Buy on August 3. Analyst Arvind Ramnani cut his price target to $350 from $410. That is a $60 drop. Intuit carries a market cap of $86 billion. Short interest sits at 5.6%…
Short sellers are making bold moves this week. Hertz Global Holdings leads US names with SI hitting 80.9% of free float — up 2.3 percentage points in seven days. Chewy is not far behind at 81.4% of FF, also climbing…
Options positioning and short interest are moving in the same direction on CRDO. The put-call ratio hit 0.92 on July 31 — 2.2 standard deviations above its 20-day mean. Short interest climbed 15.3% in a single week.…
