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Regeneron Pharmaceuticals enters its October 30 Q3 earnings report with short sellers cutting positions, options traders leaning bullish, and a run of analyst target increases that has pushed the consensus well above…
Applied Digital spent the past week absorbing a 14% decline to $19.33, even as two of its most senior executives used the weakness to add shares in the open market. The insider activity is the sharpest signal this…
RLI Corp. has delivered a sharp post-earnings move, and the question now is whether the analyst community, which mostly sat below the stock going into the print, will follow the price higher. The stock closed at $62.71…
Quanta Services builds and maintains the power grid infrastructure that underpins the AI and electrification boom, a business that had driven the stock up more than 50% in the first half of 2026. This week, that trade…
QCOM edged down 0.7% over the past week, a narrower decline than the median of roughly 1.5% across its closest semiconductor peers, yet options positioning tells a more cautious story than that relative resilience…
Public Service Enterprise Group carries the lightest short interest among its closest regulated-utility peers, yet that figure is now at its highest point in at least a year, a combination worth unpacking with Q3…
PRU short sellers have added positions steadily over the past month, pushing borrowed shares to their highest level in at least a year. Short interest now stands at 4.3% of free float, up roughly 10% over the past 30…
Procter & Gamble reports Wednesday with the put/call ratio having fallen sharply on the day, dropping to 0.679 from 0.760 the prior session, unwinding the defensive positioning that dominated the pre-print…
Power Integrations has had an unusual week in the semiconductor space. The stock gained 0.6% over the past five days while its closest correlated peers fell sharply, with FormFactor down 15.9%, Lattice Semiconductor…
Plexus Corp. has had a rough week, but not as rough as the company it keeps. Among its closest peers, the sector-wide selling has been severe. TTMI dropped 17.7% over the past five sessions. AEIS and JBL each fell more…
ConocoPhillips has extended its rally to close at $145.95, up another 3.6% on the week, as a wave of analyst target upgrades reshapes the case for the stock two weeks before its November 5 results. The analyst story is…
PNR reported Q3 results yesterday, October 20, and the stock closed fractionally higher at $52.88, a gain of less than 0.25%, while its closest peers added a median 2.1% on the week. The disconnect between the stock's…
Pegasystems reported Q3 results after market close on October 21, with short sellers quietly rebuilding positions into the print even as the stock posted a solid week. Short interest climbed 11% over the past week to…
Packaging Corporation of America reported its October 21 quarterly results on the same day this note was filed, closing a week in which the stock added 3.1% to $238.92 while the borrow market stayed almost entirely…
PPL Corporation enters its November 6 earnings with the most defensive options positioning it has seen all year, even as the stock lags peers by a notable margin over the past week. The sharpest signal is in options.…
PG&E Corporation carries one of the least-shorted profiles in the electric utility peer group heading into Thursday's third-quarter earnings release, yet its shares have moved in the wrong direction relative to almost…
Orrstown Financial Services heads into its Q3 2026 earnings release, scheduled for October 22, with positioning that is remarkably calm, leaving the fundamental question of whether post-merger profitability is durable…
OFG Bancorp delivered its latest earnings on October 21, with the stock up 4.1% on the week heading into the release and shorts quietly trimming positions, creating an unusually uncontested setup for a regional bank…
ORCL closed Tuesday at $131.14, up 1.2% on the day but still down 8.4% on the week, extending a slide that has now erased 11% over the past month and left the stock roughly 19% below its September peak as the fiscal Q2…
ONEOK reports Q3 earnings on October 27, and the week's most notable change is a modest short rebuild combined with a small but measurable drift toward more defensive options positioning. Short interest edged up 2% on…
