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SNOW Bears Pile In Despite Loose Borrow Market

Snowflake is catching short sellers' attention. SI jumped 33% over the past month to 5.1% of float. Yet the borrow market tells a contradictory story — availability remains extremely loose, and cost to borrow just hit…

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GME Short Interest Spikes 25% in a Day as Lending Tightens

Short sellers piled back into GME on May 4. A 25% single-day jump in short interest pushed the float-adjusted figure to 15.5%. That move snapped a month-long retreat and put borrowing costs under fresh pressure. Short…

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CNSP Borrow Cost Explodes 1,170% as Stock Triples

A 239% single-day rally in CNSP has detonated the lending market. CNS Pharmaceuticals' cost to borrow hit 326% on May 4 — up from 22.8% just one week earlier. That 1,170% weekly jump in borrow cost is the dominant…

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PH puts surge even as short sellers retreat

Options traders are piling into protective puts on PH at the fastest pace in weeks. The put-call ratio hit 0.95 on May 5 — 2.7 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.73. Yet the short-selling data tells a…

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HCAI Borrow Market Burns as CTB Hits 864%

Cost to borrow on HCAI has exploded to 864%. That is up 88% in a week and nearly 585% over the past month. The borrow market is under acute stress — and earnings are ten days away. Availability has collapsed. The…

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RELX Shorts Build Ahead of Thursday Earnings

Earnings are two days away. Short sellers are not waiting. RELX reports on May 6. In the week to May 4, short interest jumped 16.3% to 4.47 million shares. Over the past month, that's a 30% build. The positioning is…

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EPD Analysts Raise Targets as Shorts Retreat

Analysts at three firms lifted price targets on EPD in the past week. The borrow market has simultaneously loosened to multi-month lows. Yet options traders are loading up on puts — and that tension is the story. EPD…

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VALE Bears Build as Options Market Pushes Back

Bears are piling into VALE, but the options market isn't buying it. Short shares jumped 25% in a month. Yet put/call positioning tells a different story. Short shares in VALE have climbed from 55.3M on April 9 to 69.5M…

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INHD Borrow Market Seizes Up as Short Interest Soars 2,763%

Short sellers have descended on INHD with extraordinary speed. Inno Holdings Inc. has gone from a lightly shorted micro-cap to one of the most heavily squeezed names in the lending market — in under a month. SI hit 56%…

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BHP Borrow Market Maxed Out — Options Traders Turn Bullish

A split signal has emerged on BHP. Every share in the lending pool has been lent out for weeks. Yet options traders just turned their most bullish in a year. Availability on BHP has been at or near 0% since late April.…

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RGNT Heads Into Earnings With Price Under Pressure

Regentis Biomaterials reports today after a month of persistent selling, entering the print as one of the more visibly distressed small-cap biotech names on the AMEX. The stock is down 18% over the past month and shed…

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VOYG Shorts Build Into Print as Options Turn Defensive

Voyager Technologies enters its first-quarter earnings call on May 5 with short sellers pressing harder and options traders the most cautious they have been in months — even as the bull thesis on defence spending…

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Primo Brands: Street Trims Targets Before Q1 Print

Primo Brands heads into Thursday's Q1 results with analysts broadly constructive but quietly pulling back their price targets — a telling pre-earnings posture for a stock that has quietly recovered 22%…

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CURB Short Sellers Step In Ahead of Q1 Print

Curbline Properties Corp. heads into its May 7 Q1 earnings report with short sellers materially more aggressive than they were just weeks ago. Short interest has climbed nearly 36% over the past month to 5.6% of the…

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INVX Beats on Both Lines — Q2 Guide Lands Above Consensus

Innovex International reported after the bell on May 4, delivering a clean beat: Q1 adjusted EPS of $0.47 crushed the $0.27 estimate, and revenue of $239M topped the $231M consensus. The guide into Q2 — sales of…

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FSHP Heads Into Earnings Under a Cloud of Regulatory Risk

Flag Ship Acquisition Corporation reports Q1 2026 results on May 7 against a backdrop that has shifted materially in just the past two weeks — a collapsed merger, a Nasdaq delisting notice, and a cost-to-borrow that…

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HUT 8 Heads Into Earnings on a Debt-Fuelled Surge

HUT reports Q1 2026 results today against an extraordinary backdrop: the stock has rallied 62% in the past month, lifted by a $3.25 billion senior secured note offering and a fresh $200 million Bitcoin-backed credit…

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