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MAR reports third-quarter results on November 2 with its shares at $399.30, up 10% over the past month and now trading above the Street's mean price target of $387.77. That gap between price and consensus is the…
Lam Research closed Friday at $239.11, down 6% on the day and 26% below where it stood a month ago, yet short interest has climbed 13% over the past week to 2.3% of the free float, the sharpest weekly rise in the ORTEX…
IDXX fell 4.3% on Friday to $551.21, a sharper drop than the week's median move for its closest peers, most of which closed flat to modestly higher. That single-session loss has pushed the put/call ratio to 0.58, well…
EXEL is the busier story in its peer group this week, not because short positioning is tightening, but because the opposite is happening. Short interest runs at 10.3% of free float, well above the likes of INCY and…
Enbridge reports Q3 results on November 2, arriving at the print with short sellers having cut their exposure sharply over the past month. Short interest in the Canadian pipeline giant has fallen roughly 24% over the…
Albany International gained 7% over the past week, ahead of a median 4.9% advance for its closest peers, a performance gap that narrows the already slim bearish case heading into Monday's results. Among the peer group,…
AMD reports Q3 results on November 3 with the stock down 17% over the past month, yet the analyst community has spent that same stretch raising price targets, not cutting them. The most recent move came from…
Short sellers have built their largest position in UL Solutions in at least a year, with 8.9% of the free float now borrowed against the stock ahead of Monday's Q3 earnings release. That figure has risen 29% over the…
Apollo Global Management enters its November 3 earnings report with short sellers holding nearly 4% of the free float, a position that has been quietly shrinking while the stock recovers from a bruising month. Short…
DigitalOcean reports Q3 results on November 3, arriving at the print after losing a third of its value in a month and facing a more complicated ownership picture than at any point in the past year. The stock closed at…
CPNG rose 3.4% over the past week to $14.37, a notable divergence from its closest peers, which fell a median of 6.7% over the same period. MELI dropped 10.3% on the week, and AMZN shed 3.1%, making Coupang's relative…
DT dropped 5.4% on Friday and is down 10% over the past week to $57.69, a sharper decline than the median -3.2% among its closest software peers. Short interest has risen another 3.5% in a single session to 5.6% of the…
UBER enters Tuesday's Q3 earnings with a stock that has lost 6% over the past month to $65.25, sitting well below the analyst consensus target of around $100, a gap wide enough to be the dominant fact about this…
AMCOR approaches its November 3 results with options traders still leaning bullish and the stock extending the gains that followed the October 27 print, though a quietly rising short position adds a note of caution to…
TOST reports Q3 results on November 3 with short sellers having built their largest position in months, even as the borrow market remains relaxed enough to suggest the move is deliberate rather than forced. Short…
Equitable Holdings reports Q3 results on November 2, but the quarterly figures are almost secondary to the larger story reshaping the shares: the agreed takeover of Corebridge Financial, which has set off a wave of…
Spotify enters its November 3 earnings report with short sellers pulling back at a pace that stands 3.6 standard deviations below the stock's typical weekly move: short interest has collapsed 35% over the past week to…
YUMC reports Q3 results on November 3, trading at $45.78 against an analyst consensus target of $62.07, a 35% gap that makes the print a direct test of whether the Street's optimism on China's consumer recovery has any…
DuPont de Nemours enters its November 3 earnings release with short sellers pulling back sharply, even as the analyst community has been quietly marking down its price targets across the board. Short interest in DuPont…
Block, Inc. held up better than most of its fintech cohort over the past week, falling just 0.3% against a median decline of around 1.4% across its closest correlated peers. ADYEN dropped 14.5% on the week and MQ lost…
