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BankUnited reported Q3 results on October 21, with short sellers pulling back sharply into the print and options positioning flipping to its most call-heavy stance in months. The clearest story in the lending market is…
TRGP enters the week with a curious split: short sellers have quietly added to positions over the past five days even as a broad wave of analyst upgrades pushes the Street's price targets higher. Short interest has…
Tesla has held up better than most of its closest peers in the week since Q3 results, closing at $373.71 after a 1.5% gain on Tuesday, while the peer group fell a median 2.4% over the same stretch. RIVN dropped 7.0% on…
FN fell 16.9% over the past week, a steeper drop than the median 11.7% decline posted by its closest peer group, which included COHR down 20.1% and TTMI off 17.7%. The optical contract manufacturer now trades at…
Nicolet Bankshares enters the week having just reported Q3 results, with Piper Sandler moving swiftly to raise its price target and short sellers quietly adding exposure over the past month, even as the options market…
A. O. Smith makes water heaters and water treatment equipment, and right now the stock sits at the intersection of a deteriorating analyst consensus and short interest that has climbed to its highest level in at least…
GM just reported its Q3 results and the market's response has been brutal: the stock fell 6.8% on Tuesday and is down 8.2% on the week, closing at $77.09. The question now is whether the analyst community's…
TRNO enters its November 3 earnings date with a modestly bearish lean in positioning, even as the stock trades roughly 11% below the consensus analyst target and the fundamental bull case around coastal infill…
H rose 8.1% over the past week to $176.15, outpacing most of its closest peers but doing so against a backdrop where short interest has climbed nearly 20% over the past month, a combination that sharpens the setup…
Apple Hospitality REIT has gained 7.7% over the past week to close at $17.82, outpacing the median weekly move of around 5.6% across its closest hotel REIT peers. The rally has come without any meaningful short…
Constellation Energy enters the week before its November 5 earnings report with options positioning at its most defensive reading of the past year, even as the stock absorbs a 12.5% weekly loss that stands well clear…
Reinsurance Group of America enters its November 5 earnings print with the stock up 3.5% on the week, trading at $267.39, and the analyst community pointing broadly higher. The most compelling story right now is on the…
HBCP has handed short sellers their clearest victory of the year, and the question now is whether the post-earnings reset has done enough to bring buyers back before the next scheduled print on October 23. The earnings…
CB reported earnings on October 21 with the stock at $357.75, slightly below where it traded heading into the release, leaving the same tension that defined the preview notes: a stock trading above most analyst…
AGNC Investment Corp. delivered a stronger-than-expected Q3 result on Tuesday, with tangible book value per share rising 6% to $8.28, yet the reaction from the Street has been to trim targets rather than raise…
Philip Morris International reported Q3 results on Tuesday and beat expectations, but the stock closed Wednesday at $199.90, down roughly 2.5% from the $205.20 pre-print level that two prior notes flagged as…
EchoStar dropped 5.6% over the past week to $86.39, underperforming a peer median decline of 4.4%, even as JP Morgan flipped the stock from Underweight to Overweight with a $144 target on October 16, the kind of…
MSCI is the most shorted name among its closest financial data peers right now, with short interest at 2.59% of the free float and the cost to borrow tripling in a single week, even as the stock itself jumped 5.5%…
CVR Energy heads into its Q3 earnings print on October 26 down slightly on the week but with analysts still firmly opposed to a stock that has now pulled back from $63 to $61.87, leaving the consensus mean target of…
QQQ enters the back half of October with a partial short-side retreat after last week's 5.5% selloff, but the Nasdaq-100 tracker has yet to convincingly shake its defensive overhang. The most notable shift this week is…
