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Analysts lifted their price target on HAS to $109.29, up from $107.07, making it one of the more notable moves in recent activity. The toymaker's consensus average target rose for the second time this…
Corporate insiders filed a wave of notable trades this past week, with sellers dominating the headlines. Charles Schwab's founder and Co-Chairman, Charles R. Schwab, filed disclosures showing he sold over $15M worth of…
Short sellers went on the offensive heading into August. The biggest movers tell a clear story: bears are piling in ahead of high-risk earnings. HTZ leads the charge. Short interest hit 84.6% of free float, up nearly…
Equity ETFs absorbed $76.7B in net inflows last week. That is the dominant story. Money is moving decisively into risk assets, and Asia is driving the charge. Japan pulled in $13.8B in net flows over the past week. Its…
Markets kick off August with earnings season at full tilt and short sellers pressing their bets across multiple sectors. Over 1,800 companies report this week. Today alone sees Marriott International and Vertex…
An earnings-heavy week is drawing unusual options and short interest attention to several names where sentiment looks sharply divided. Hertz is the most striking case. Short interest just hit 35% of the float as bears…
SoundHound AI reports on August 5 with four days to go, and the structural picture has not broken: the short book has grown again, the borrow market remains completely sealed, and options traders are still leaning…
Hertz Global Holdings arrives at its August 6 earnings date with short sellers adding rather than covering, the borrow market still completely locked, and the Street cutting targets to levels that imply the stock has…
LFS closes out July essentially unchanged, with the stock at A$0.90 and a half-point weekly gain that barely registers — the real story heading into the August 21 earnings date is who owns the stock and what the…
The Fidelity U.S. Value ETF (FCUV) on the TSX presents a modestly unusual setup this week: a vanilla Canadian-listed ETF carrying a cost-to-borrow rate that has more than doubled in a week, against a backdrop of…
CHWY heads into its August 26 earnings date with an unusual tension: the stock is up 8% on the week, yet short sellers are rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in months. Short interest has become the dominant…
CRM enters its August 26 earnings window on the back of its strongest monthly run in some time. The stock gained 11% on the week and 18% over the past month, closing at $275 in USD terms — a sharp recovery from what…
KORU has completed the move its lending market was threatening — availability has dropped to exactly 0%, the lending pool is fully exhausted, and short interest has more than doubled in a week while the ETF itself lost…
Over 1,800 companies report this week. The calendar is dense with US mega-caps. Monday (today) sees Marriott International and Vertex Pharmaceuticals both dropping results. Marriott's $98bn hotel giant faces scrutiny…
GRPN closes out the week before its August 6 earnings print at $27.58 — up 6.9% on the week and 14.6% over the past month — with a short base that has barely budged and a borrow market that remains almost entirely…
JSW — Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa — enters the final stretch before its August 20 earnings with a notable shift in the ORTEX short score, even as the lending market remains structurally hostile to fresh borrow. The most…
WEN heads into its August 7 earnings print with short interest climbing again, options traders rotating toward calls, and a stock that clawed back 5.6% on the week — a setup where the bear camp and the calendar are now…
EchoStar reports on August 3 with short sellers still holding a meaningful position — but the six-week cover trade has fundamentally changed the character of that bet. The short-side story is one of retreat, not…
Valmont Industries enters August with an unusual problem: its closest peers are surging while it sits nearly 17% below where it traded a month ago. The stock closed Friday at $481.70, down about 1% on the week and…
Solstice Advanced Materials heads into its August 5 earnings event carrying a short interest position that has nearly tripled in a month — while the stock itself has shed a third of its value over the same period. The…
