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Friday, July 31 marks one of the heaviest earnings days of the season. Over 170 S&P 500 companies report this week. ExxonMobil and Chevron headlined the morning as oil majors face pressure from weaker crude. AbbVie…
Options traders are piling into calls on AGL ahead of next week's results. The put-call ratio hit 0.17 on July 30 — down 27% from its 20-day mean of 0.23. That reading sits more than three standard deviations below the…
Options flow turned bearish on semiconductors into July month-end. Micron Technology topped the negative bets leaderboard across US stocks this week. The memory chipmaker is up 206% year-to-date. Traders are hedging…
Analyst desks were busy Thursday with a mix of upgrades and target price revisions across industrials, pharma, and consumer sectors. Citigroup makes a bold industrial call. SWK received an upgrade to Buy from…
A 10% shareholder in VSXY (Victoria's Secret) filed this week to reveal over $96M in sales across multiple transactions. Singapore-based BBRC International sold more than 1 million shares between July 22 and July 28.…
Short sellers are turning aggressive on two beaten-down sectors. Hertz Global Holdings and Chewy lead the week's biggest SI moves. HTZ now sits at 84.6% SI of free float. That jumped nearly 10 percentage points in just…
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals just delivered the worst single-day drop in recent memory, collapsing 28% on July 30 to $205.48 after its earnings print triggered an immediate and sweeping analyst response. The catalyst was…
Rezolve AI has now passed its August 6 earnings print with the short-side story sharply more intense than the contradictory standoff described in last week's notes — short interest has jumped to a new high, borrow…
GoDaddy reported Q2 results on July 30 and the market's initial enthusiasm gave way to a 5.5% pullback — yet the stock still closed the week up 13%, leaving investors to weigh a strong run against a suddenly divided…
LFS enters the final week of July in an unusual position: the stock has barely moved, yet the lending market tells a story of structurally high borrowing costs that have persisted for nearly a year. The most striking…
POET Technologies heads into its August 12 earnings with short sellers entrenched at elevated levels and the borrow market tightening noticeably — a combination that makes the upcoming print one of the more charged…
AST SpaceMobile closed Thursday up 10% to $58.44 — yet short interest barely moved, and the borrow market remains among the tightest it has been all year, leaving the stock coiled ahead of its August 10 earnings…
IREN just posted its biggest single-day gain in months — a 30.5% jump to $38.26 on July 30 — yet the short base has grown heavier still, setting up one of the more charged positioning conflicts in the digital asset…
GRPN enters its August 6 earnings print with short interest back at a cycle high, the borrow pool effectively sealed shut, and a stock that has just added another 10% on the week — a combination that has defined this…
Ultra Clean Holdings enters its August 3 earnings call with one of the sharpest single-day reversals in the semiconductor equipment space — yet the stock has still shed 17% on the week and 36% over the past…
Friday brings one of the heaviest earnings sessions of the year. ExxonMobil and Chevron both report this morning, facing pressure from softer crude prices. AbbVie releases pharma results at 9am ET — Skyrizi and Rinvoq…
GVA's options market lit up on July 31. The put/call ratio spiked to 0.84 — its highest level in 52 weeks. That reading sits 4.3 standard deviations above its 20-day mean of 0.12. Options traders rarely show fear this…
Analysts are lifting targets on infrastructure and electrical services stocks. Oppenheimer upgraded EME (EMCOR Group) to Buy with a $1,200 price target. That is up from $1,100 previously. EMCOR carries a market cap of…
Insider selling dominated US filings this week. Charles Schwab, founder and co-chairman of SCHW, filed $20M in sales across July 28–29. He sold 189,000 shares at around $105 each. The filings appeared on July 30. AMAT…
Short sellers turned decisively bearish on rental car names and battered consumer stocks this week. The moves are among the sharpest seen in months. HTZ now carries 84.6% SI % FF — up nearly 10 percentage points in…
