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Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach heads into its May earnings date with a fresh Q1 print already on the table, a short-score that just dropped sharply, and a borrow market that has loosened dramatically over the…
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp heads into the final day of April with a striking contrast: the stock has climbed to its highest level in at least three months while a cluster of insiders trimmed positions on the way…
Farmer Bros. Co. reports quarterly results on May 1 with one of the more unusual short-interest patterns of recent weeks: a stock where bears have been quietly retreating into what could be a pivotal print. The most…
FFH reports Q1 2026 results today, after the close, with the stock having pulled back 5% on the week — yet the short-selling community has been moving in the opposite direction, steadily covering rather than…
Fair Isaac Corporation rallied 7.6% on the week to close at $1,043.57, lifted by a Q2 earnings beat that pushed the stock up nearly 3% the day after results. What makes the setup interesting is that short sellers used…
FTI Consulting reports Q1 2026 results this morning, and the setup is notably cleaner than recent history suggested it might be. Short sellers moved decisively out of the stock in the run-up to the print. Short…
Oppenheimer Holdings heads into its Q1 2026 results — due this morning — with one of the most striking divergences in its recent history: short sellers have nearly doubled their bets against the stock over the past…
FTI — FTI Foodtech International Inc. — is a micro-cap trading on the TSX Venture Exchange, and right now the story is defined more by what's absent than what's moving. The price data is stale by more than eight…
FRMO heads into the final stretch of fiscal 2026 carrying its most significant leadership transition in four decades — and doing so with short sellers barely present. The defining event of the past two weeks was the…
NextEra Energy heads into the final trading day of April with an unusual combination on the table: short sellers are in retreat after a well-received earnings print, while the Street is quietly lifting targets and the…
F.N.B. Corporation heads into its May 6 Q1 results with short sellers at their most aggressive in months — and the Street, for now, refusing to follow them. The scale of the short build is the defining feature of this…
FMC Corporation reports Q1 2026 results today with an unusual setup: a 4% drop on the day before earnings, yet a short base that has collapsed over the past week. The short-side story has shifted sharply. Short…
FFD Financial Corporation closed the week at $44.75, edging up 1.1% — a calm performance that reflects the stock's character as a lightly traded OTC community bank rather than any particular market event. The most…
FFW Corporation heads into its Q1 2026 results — already released on April 29 — with the most notable data point being a dramatic collapse in borrowing costs, not any surge in short selling. The cost-to-borrow story is…
Expeditors International heads into its May 5 Q1 earnings report with options traders the most defensively positioned they have been in months, even as the stock quietly outperforms a struggling peer group. The…
Exco Technologies heads into its Q2 2026 earnings call on April 30 carrying a mixed print — an EPS beat clouded by a top-line miss — and the borrow market is notably relaxed for a company with this ownership…
Euronet Worldwide heads into its May 20 Q1 earnings call with an unusual setup: short positions are at a month-long high while options positioning has just flipped to its most bullish extreme in over a year. The…
TSK heads into the final week of April with an unusual split: short positions have more than doubled over the past month while the borrow market has grown considerably cheaper and looser, an unusual combination that…
Ethan Allen Interiors enters the week having just printed Q3 results — and the most notable development isn't the earnings themselves, but a sudden, dramatic exit by short sellers. Short interest fell off a cliff…
Miivo Holdings Corp. enters the final days of April with its most notable story coming from inside the building — not from the tape. The standout from the past three months is a coordinated cluster of insider buying in…
