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CVR Partners reports Q2 results on July 30 with shorts pulling back, borrow conditions exceptionally loose, and a stock that has quietly added 11% over the past month — a setup that looks more constructive than…
Huntington Ingalls Industries enters its Q2 print on July 30 having added 11.6% on the week to $299.90 — yet options traders have responded by pushing protection demand to its most elevated reading in months. The…
Meta Platforms exits its Q3 earnings call at $593 — down 8% on the week — leaving investors to reconcile a Street still firmly in the bull camp with a stock that has now shed roughly $75 from its pre-Q2 high in six…
Freehold Royalties heads into its Q2 earnings release tomorrow with short sellers rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in months, even as the stock's royalty model keeps the borrow market far from stressed. The…
Vermilion Energy reports Q2 results on July 30 at a genuinely awkward moment — the stock is up 11% over the past month yet dipped 2.3% on Tuesday, while short sellers are quietly trimming positions ahead of a print…
NXP Semiconductors reported its Q2 results on July 28 and the market's reaction was swift: the stock fell 3.2% on the day to $259.12, extending a 5.1% weekly decline, as analysts moved quickly to cut price targets the…
Tesla is now living with the consequences of its Q2 earnings report, down 19% on the week to $307.44 — a loss of roughly $71 per share since the print landed on July 22, which itself produced a one-day drop of…
Ryerson Holding reports Q2 results tomorrow, July 30, against a backdrop of quiet short positioning but an abrupt shift in options sentiment that marks the most defensive put/call reading of the past year. The options…
SOXL enters the final days of July in freefall — down 31% on the week and 49% over the past month — with every positioning signal pointing in the same direction. The price action tells the sharpest part of the story.…
Pilgrim's Pride heads into its Q2 earnings print tomorrow with options traders the most defensively positioned they have been all year — even as the stock quietly grinds higher. The clearest signal this week is in…
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust exits its Q2 earnings week with short sellers unwinding fast — a sharp reversal from the build that defined the prior note — while analysts queue up target upgrades and the stock trades just…
Fortinet reported earnings on July 29 and now trades at $149.98, down 5% on the week — a reset that has done nothing to close the fundamental tension that has defined this stock all month: the Street consensus still…
Two Harbors Investment Corp. heads into its August 4 earnings report with shorts rebuilding sharply and options traders at their most defensively positioned all year. The most striking shift this week is in short…
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust enters its August 4 earnings date carrying a stock that has dropped 9% over the past month to $9.79, even as short sellers have been quietly rebuilding positions — a combination worth…
CleanSpark heads into its August 7 earnings with a rare combination: one of the highest short interest readings in the market, options traders at their most defensive in twelve months, and a Street that just lifted its…
LendingTree enters the back half of July with short sellers accelerating and options traders the most bearish they have been all year — a dual-pressure setup on a stock that reported disappointing Q2 results this week…
MYR Group reports Q2 results on July 30 against one of its sharpest drawdowns in recent memory — the stock has shed 29% over the past month to $340.72, including an 8% drop on Tuesday and a 15% slide on the week alone,…
American Water Works has climbed to $138.04 on the back of its Q2 results, but shorts are quietly rebuilding positions even as the stock posts its best weekly gain in months. The short interest story is the most…
MiMedx Group reports Thursday with an interesting setup: short interest has climbed steadily over the past two weeks, analyst targets have been cut repeatedly since the start of the year, and the stock is sitting well…
Teekay Tankers has now printed its Q2 results, and the defensive put-buying that dominated positioning ahead of the July 29 report turns out to have been the right read on the room. The options market sent a clear…
