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Altria Group posted a clean Q3 beat on October 29 and the stock responded, rising 6.9% on the day and adding 5% across the week to close at $78.03, with analysts moving quickly to revise targets upward. The…
Peoples Financial Services Corp. enters its November 6 earnings report with short interest at a six-week high and the FDIC's own data confirming five straight quarters of balance sheet expansion. The most striking…
PNC Financial Services Group closed Friday at $227.86, up 1.5% for the week, but short sellers have been quietly rebuilding positions to their highest level in at least twelve months. Short interest reached 2.0% of the…
ORLY closed out the week at $88.12, down 2% on the week, as the short base that had been unwinding ahead of Wednesday's Q3 results continued to shrink in the days that followed. Short sellers have reduced their…
Northern Trust closed Friday at $169.16, down 2.2% on the day but up 0.7% for the week, a resilient showing against a peer group that mostly retreated. Closest custodial rivals STT and BNY gained a similar 1.2% on the…
Minerals Technologies Inc. delivered its Q3 print on October 29 and the market's verdict was polite but far from enthusiastic: the stock added 1.3% on the day and another 1.5% on Friday, leaving it at $62.74,…
Merit Medical Systems delivered its Q3 results on October 29 and the market's verdict was swift: the stock fell 6.5% on the day and extended losses to close the week down 7.6% at $86.24, even as analysts responded by…
Marriott International reports third-quarter results on November 2, with its shares at $399.30, up 10% over the past month and now sitting above the Street's mean price target of $387.77. The gap between where the…
Mondelez International closed out October with its most interesting week in months, as a strong quarterly result lifted the stock nearly 5% on earnings day and triggered an immediate round of target price increases…
KeyCorp closed Friday at $21.12, up a fraction for the week while most of its closest peers retreated. Zions fell 1.3% on the week and Citizens Financial dropped 2%, making KEY's flat performance look relatively firm…
Intuitive Surgical heads into the final stretch of October nursing a 4.5% weekly loss, even as the analyst community emerged from Q3 results mostly constructive on the robotic surgery franchise. The Street's reaction…
Illumina reported Q3 results on October 29 and the market's verdict was swift: the stock fell 18.3% the following day, closing at $235.99, down 12.4% for the week. That move came against a median gain of roughly 5%…
IDXX enters its Monday earnings report with short sellers adding to positions at the margin, while options positioning has turned more defensive than at any point in the past six months. Short interest has edged up…
HSY closed Friday at $165.61, up 3.3% on the day after reporting Q3 results on October 29. That single-session recovery, however, still leaves the stock down 2.4% on the week, underperforming most of its closest peers.…
Harley-Davidson enters November with one of its more interesting short-side stories in months. A 26% one-month rally has collided with a short position that was still being built as recently as mid-October, creating an…
W.W. Grainger reports Q3 results on 4 November, and the run-up has been unusually calm for a stock carrying a 28x earnings multiple in a softening industrial cycle. Shares closed at $1,359.17 on Friday, up 0.7% for the…
Global Payments delivered the week's most striking reversal in the payments sector: a 17% gain that left the pre-earnings defensive hedges looking badly wrong, with the stock closing at $96.84 on Friday and shorts…
Gilead Sciences closed Thursday at $170.68, up 9.4% on the week, after a third-quarter earnings beat prompted one of the most unified rounds of analyst target upgrades the stock has seen in recent memory. The catalyst…
FITB gained 1.7% over the past week to close at $53.87, outperforming a median peer return of essentially zero, even as short sellers added to positions at the fastest pace in months and JP Morgan raised its target…
FTI Consulting delivered one of its sharpest weekly moves in recent memory, rallying 16.3% to close at $182.84 after reporting quarterly results on October 29 that drove a single-day gain of 15.3%. The tension worth…
