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Pioneer Bancorp closed the week at $14.36, up 0.8% Friday but flat weekly as short interest surged 12.8% and borrowing costs eased. Insider selling totaled $79k over 90 days. PBFS closed at $14.36 on April 24, gaining…
WiMi Hologram Cloud fell 11% this week while short interest edged lower and options traders shifted sharply toward puts. The stock closed at $1.76, up 5% from a month ago but down double digits over the past week. WIMI…
Armata Pharmaceuticals climbed 12% this week to $12.92, capping a 57% month-long run. Short interest rose 17% over thirty days to 337k shares. Analysts hold a $17.50 target. CEO and CFO sold shares in mid-March near…
IHRT surged 35% Friday, capping a 98% month. Short interest fell 25% in that span while options sentiment flipped sharply bullish. IHRT closed at $5.42 on April 24, up 35.2% on the day. The stock gained 32.2% for the…
MITQ shares climbed 6.5% this week to $0.64 while short interest swung wildly — up 30% day-over-day to 93,157 shares (0.94% of float) after collapsing 59% over the prior week. Borrowing costs fell 55% in a week to…
Nocera slipped 2.3% over the past week to 21 cents, but the real story unfolded in the lending market — short interest collapsed by half and cost to borrow fell from 88% to 47%. Utilisation remains elevated at 76%,…
SLE closed at $3.76, down 1.3% Friday and 11.7% for the week. Short interest fell to 0.40% of float—lowest in a month. Cost to borrow declined to 60% from recent peaks near 113%, while utilisation backed off the…
Spire Global faces significant unwinding pressure. Short interest fell 13% over the past week to 13.0% of float while the stock dropped 15.5%. Cost to borrow swung wildly but remains elevated at 9.6% after a 296%…
KDP rallied 10.1% this week to $29.22 ahead of Thursday's earnings. Analysts raised targets post‑call. Short interest climbed 20% over the month to 4.37% of float. Options flow turned bullish with PCR at a…
Liberty Energy Inc. jumped 24.5% this week to $32.74 as Wall Street raised targets across the board following a strong quarterly print. Short interest remains modest at 8.2% of float while options sentiment has turned…
Glenbrook Capital continues aggressive accumulation while short interest jumps 72% week-over-week and cost to borrow climbs to 2.9%. SNES closed at $1.57 on April 24, up 2% on the day. The stock fell 1.9% over the past…
Twilio rallied 17% in April as three major firms upgraded, led by B of A's rare double-jump from Underperform to Buy. UBS lifted targets to $180 on Thursday; earnings Wednesday test momentum amid cooling short…
Intellia Therapeutics fell 14% Thursday while short interest ticked up to 34.4% of float. Cost to borrow rose 25% week-over-week. ARK and Vanguard added over 2 million shares each in Q1. Analysts hold a Buy consensus…
MetroCity Bankshares short interest surged 100% in one month to 2.0% of float. Cost to borrow fell 5% as utilization hit a 52-week high. Insiders sold $1.2M in shares last quarter. MCBS closed at $31.50 on April 24,…
Short interest in Pyxis Tankers fell 35% over the past week to 17,631 shares as of April 23, marking the lowest level since early April. Cost to borrow declined 5.8% to 5.60% and utilisation dropped to just 0.52% from…
FCPT traded at $25.43, up 1.1% Friday but down 0.9% for the week. The REIT's short interest sits at 3.45% of float. Cost to borrow jumped sharply mid-week while CEO Bill Lenehan added over 20,000 shares across three…
Shares on loan in GLMD plunged to 91,586 from over 1.7 million earlier this month. Cost to borrow remains elevated at 168%. No official analyst target price stands. GLMD closed at $0.63 on April 24, up 1.9% on the day.…
Alpha Compute faces mounting short pressure as shares collapse 32% in a week. Short interest surged 530% in seven days to 48% of float while cost to borrow spiked above 200%. ALP closed at $0.22 on April 24, down 32%…
DSS shares fell 42% this week to $0.56 while short interest exploded 273% over seven days, reaching 2.42% of free float. Utilisation jumped from near-zero to 67% as lending costs rose 43% week-over-week. DSS closed at…
Meta closed at $675.03, up 2.4% Friday but down 2% for the week. Short interest sits at 1.21% of float – a 30-day high. Options traders tilt heavily bullish (PCR at 52-week low) ahead of Tuesday's Q1 print. Analysts…
