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AON reports Q2 results on July 31 with the stock up 15% over the past month — but now lagging its peers on the day that matters most. The peer divergence is the sharpest signal heading into the print. While AON fell…
Air Products and Chemicals heads into its fiscal Q3 earnings today with positioning remaining constructively skewed — and a few minor shifts since the last preview worth noting. Options are the lead signal, and the…
Agnico Eagle Mines reports today with a stock down 8% over the past month and an analyst community that has spent three weeks resetting expectations — yet stopped well short of abandoning the bull case. The positioning…
Markets are navigating two forces at once today. Big Tech earnings season hits its peak — MSFT, AAPL, and AMZN all report within 48 hours. At the same time, a chip sell-off is rattling the Nasdaq. SK Hynix missed…
The AI sell-off is driving a sharp shift in options positioning. Chip names top both sides of the flow table — but the bearish bets are winning the volume war. NVDA sits at the centre of the storm. The Nasdaq 100…
A busy earnings week drove a wave of target price changes across Wall Street on July 30. IQVIA Holdings saw the biggest boost. The average analyst target jumped to $269 from $253 — a $16 lift. All 18 covering analysts…
The past two weeks of filings reveal a split market. Buyers are concentrated in insurance and pharma. Sellers are cashing out of financials and refining names. Goosehead Insurance gets the most attention on the buy…
Short sellers are piling into consumer names. Chewy saw its SI % of Free Float jump 14 points in seven days to 80.4%. That is a sharp move for a $5.3B stock. Bears are clearly betting the pet retailer faces a rough…
ETF investors poured money into equities this week. The flows were broad, deep, and tilted firmly toward risk assets. The US attracted $37.0B in net inflows over the past week. That is the largest single geography flow…
NCH2 emerges from the most dramatic week in its recent history with a shrunken short position, stubbornly tight borrow conditions, and earnings fourteen days out. The structural story shifted on July 28. Short interest…
Lucid Group enters its August 4 earnings report in one of the most extreme short-squeeze configurations it has seen this year — a 21.5% single-day rally fuelled by a high-profile Saudi buyer, a borrow market that…
EverCommerce arrives at its August 5 earnings date with a borrow market that just re-tightened, a CEO who has been selling steadily into the 29% one-month rally, and options positioning that has swung back toward…
SoFi Technologies has now reported Q2 results, the stock is trading at $16.74, and the short base has barely moved — the week's story is less about what happened at the print and more about what didn't happen after…
Ondas Inc. heads into its August 14 earnings date with short interest now at 64% of the free float — a new high in the observable window — and a lending market that remains completely locked. The short position has…
Block, Inc. enters its August 5 earnings report with a curious divergence: analysts keep raising their targets, yet short sellers quietly rebuilt positions over the past week. The positioning story has shifted since…
INIO heads into the final days of July with a sharp divergence between rising bearish positioning and a Street still anchored well above the current price. The most striking development this week is the speed of the…
Arxis, Inc. reports tomorrow with a notable divergence in play: short sellers have been cutting positions aggressively while the stock drifts sideways, leaving the setup into its next earnings print more balanced than…
Beacon Financial Corporation heads into its July 30 earnings call with the stock lagging a broadly firmer regional banking peer group, and analysts sitting on targets that price in meaningful recovery from current…
ASIC heads into late July having gained 9.3% on the week and nearly 11% over the past month, with the Street's upgrading pencils doing most of the heavy lifting. The analyst story is unusually clean. Every major firm…
CRWV has lost 15% this week and 30% over the past month, arriving at $67.30 with its first post-IPO earnings print just eight days away — and the data tells a story of shorts retreating even as the stock continues to…
