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CLH Eyes Earnings with Analysts Raising Targets

Clean Harbors heads into its July 29 Q2 earnings report with the Street increasingly constructive and insider activity telling a subtler story. The analyst move most worth noting landed on earnings morning itself:…

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Chevron Holds Its Gains — Now It's All About July 31

Chevron has added another 5.1% this week to $191.07, and with Q2 earnings landing on July 31, the story has shifted from unwinding shorts to what the print actually delivers. The borrow market tells you everything you…

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CCBG Options Caution Builds Ahead of Tomorrow's Earnings

Capital City Bank Group heads into its Q2 earnings release — scheduled for Wednesday, July 23 — with the stock at a one-month high and options traders notably more defensive than usual. The clearest signal is in…

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Campbell's Bears Retreat but Shorts Stay Dug In

CPB enters the back half of July with a quietly contradictory setup: short interest remains one of the highest readings in the packaged food universe, yet the stock has crept higher, borrowing costs have collapsed, and…

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CALM shorts hold firm as egg prices rebound

Cal-Maine Foods is an unusual animal in the food sector this week — short interest running above 11% of the float while the stock has rallied 5% over the past week and 12% over the past month, creating a tension…

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Boeing Heads Into Q2 Earnings Under Pressure

BA arrives at its July 28 Q2 earnings report having shed 8% over the past month and nearly 6% in the past week alone, closing Tuesday at $204.80 — a setup that places the Street's mean target of $270 roughly 32% above…

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Badger Meter Reports — Bears Absorb the Print

BMI delivered its Q2 results on July 22 with short sellers holding their ground at 15.2% of the free float — and the question now is whether yesterday's print gives either side enough to move. Short interest has barely…

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BOKF Analysts Lift Targets as Q2 Results Land

BOK Financial reported Q2 earnings on July 23 with the Street responding immediately — multiple firms raised price targets on the day, validating the bullish options lean that had built ahead of the print. The analyst…

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ADP Heads Into Earnings Week With Bulls Lifting Targets

ADP enters its July 29 earnings report with a split personality: the stock fell 3.5% Tuesday to $246.22, yet analysts are raising targets and short sellers are quietly retreating. That tension is the week's defining…

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Apple Trades Through Its Own Target With Eight Days to Print

AAPL closed Tuesday at $327.74, now trading roughly $9.50 above the Street's consensus mean target of $318.25 — a stock that has outrun its own analyst community heading into its most important event of the year, with…

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NLY Posts Q2 as Shorts Keep Building and the Sector Sells Off

Annaly Capital Management has now crossed the earnings line, with Q2 results hitting the tape today — but the more interesting question is how the positioning story evolves from here, given that short sellers spent the…

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AXP Q2 Results Due Thursday — Options Hedge Up, Bears Gone

American Express heads into Thursday's Q2 print with the Street broadly bullish, shorts near a multi-month low, and options traders the only group showing any real caution. The clearest pre-earnings signal is in…

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Goldman Downgrade Meets Earnings Week at AEP

American Electric Power heads into its Q2 earnings release next Tuesday with a Goldman Sachs downgrade still fresh, short sellers unwinding positions, and options traders flipping notably more bullish in a single…

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Ameren Shorts Build Fast Ahead of July 31 Earnings

Ameren Corporation heads into its July 31 earnings print with short sellers adding positions at their fastest pace in months — a notable shift for a stock that tends to move quietly. The most striking development this…

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