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AON heads into its July 29 earnings release with options traders turning notably bullish — the standout signal in an otherwise calm positioning picture. The clearest read comes from options flow. Call-side positioning…
Amphenol heads into its July 29 Q2 print with options traders notably less defensive than usual — a shift worth examining given the stock's recent wobble. The clearest change since last week's article is in options…
Allstate reports second-quarter results on July 29 with short sellers pulling back and the stock trading near multi-month highs — setting up a debate about whether the recent re-rating has run ahead of the…
Short sellers are piling into a cluster of beaten-down names this week. Three stocks stand out as the most active targets, and one regional bank saw a dramatic jump in bearish bets. CHWY (Chewy) has 72% of its free…
ATI Inc. reports Q2 results on July 29 with the stock up 74% year-to-date — and its own CEO selling into the strength. The most striking signal heading into Tuesday's print is the insider activity. CEO Kimberly Fields…
Air Products and Chemicals reports fiscal Q3 results on July 29 with options positioning and analyst direction both tilting positive — a notably calmer setup than most pre-earnings prints. The clearest signal into…
Agnico Eagle Mines heads into its July 29 earnings release with the stock trailing its closest peers even as the broader gold mining group rallies. Gold miners had a strong week. Close correlates Kinross, Wheaton…
The week's biggest event risk is a concentrated burst of mega-cap earnings. MSFT Microsoft reports fiscal Q4 results on Wednesday after the close. The $2.8 trillion company carries outsized weight for AI sentiment…
Analysts raised targets across cybersecurity and industrial names on Saturday while cutting across the utility sector in a broad repricing move. Comfort Systems USA saw the largest single target jump. The average…
The biggest insider filing this week came from Japan. Tadashi Yanai, Founder and CEO of Fast Retailing — the parent of Uniqlo — disclosed on July 22 that he sold 415,800 shares between July 10 and 14. The total value…
Short sellers sharpened their bets this week. Hertz Global Holdings saw its SI % of Free Float climb to 75% — up nearly 5 points in just seven days. Shares have gained 24% over three months, giving shorts little…
The headline story this week: US-focused ETFs shed a net $4.0B in just seven days. That reverses a three-month trend where US funds led all geographies with $470B in net inflows. Money is rotating fast, and Asia is the…
Markets are bracing for the heaviest earnings week of the summer. MSFT Microsoft leads the charge on Wednesday, with its fiscal Q4 2026 results carrying enormous weight for AI sentiment across the sector. TSLA and META…
ALAB heads into its August 4 earnings report with a sharp, awkward gap between where the stock is trading and where analysts think it should be — and with options traders growing visibly more cautious after a brutal…
Phillips Edison & Company delivered its Q2 print on July 23 with a quiet 0.39% next-day gain — a non-event on the surface, but the detail underneath is more interesting: analysts have spent the past two weeks racing to…
Analysts swept target prices lower across the US utilities sector on Friday, hitting at least eight major names in a single session. DUK, SO, XEL, DTE, ETR, PEG, FE, and AEE all saw consensus target prices trimmed. The…
Sweden's Lundberg empire is buying everything in sight. In filings this week, Lundbergföretagen snapped up 1 million shares in SAND (Sandvik AB) for $35 million. The same investment house then piled into SHB A (Svenska…
Netskope enters the final days of July with its internal contradiction deepening — the short side is expanding aggressively while the Street just turned more constructive, a divergence that points straight at the…
Falcon's Beyond Global enters the final stretch before its August 13 earnings with two stories pulling in opposite directions: a borrow market that remains structurally tight despite some easing, and a dominant…
DRVN drops into its July 28 earnings report with a curious split: the stock fell 11% on the week to $13.61, yet short sellers have been quietly covering rather than pressing their bets, leaving the setup more ambiguous…
