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eBay has climbed 4.1% this week to $121.19, outrunning the near-flat median of its closest peers at a moment when two unrelated storylines, an activist filing and an index candidacy, are converging just days before Q3…
East West Bancorp reported Q3 results on October 20 and the stock followed through, climbing 2.2% on the day to $128.27 and adding 2.6% on the week, with the options call skew from the pre-earnings note now vindicated…
Deckers Outdoor enters its October 22 earnings report with short sellers sitting on an elevated position built rapidly over the past month. Short interest has reached 8.1% of the free float, up 33% over the past 30…
Danaher reported Q3 earnings this morning, and the question shifts from what the print would say to what the Street makes of it against a stock that has already retraced from its pre-results high. The price tells that…
DTE Energy heads into its Q3 results with short sellers adding positions at their fastest monthly pace in recent memory, even as the stock holds ground against a broader utility rally. Short interest has climbed 15%…
Costco has climbed to $994.61, up 4.2% on the week and 11% over the past month, but options traders are now the most defensively positioned they have been in months, and a new initiating coverage note from CICC adds…
GLW fell 11% over the past week to $132.26, a sharper move than most of its electronic components peers, though not an outlier in a week that punished the whole group. Options positioning is the most charged signal…
Community Trust Bancorp reports Q3 results on October 23 with short sellers pulling back, borrow conditions extremely loose, and the bank's own balance sheet showing nine straight quarters of loan growth. Short…
CBSH gained 2.4% over the past week, a decent move in isolation but trailing the median of its closest regional bank peers, which averaged closer to 3.0%. Among the names most closely correlated to CBSH, UCB led with a…
Comfort Systems USA dropped 14.1% over the past week to close at $1,397.09, a steeper fall than most of its sector but one that has drawn almost no response from the short-selling community. The sell-off landed at the…
Short sellers held their ground in KO after Tuesday's Q3 earnings report, keeping the short book near its highest level in at least a year. Short interest ended the week at 1.31% of the free float, 56.2 million shares,…
CLH enters its October 28 earnings release with a fresh upgrade from UBS and rising analyst targets, while the stock itself has slipped a fraction over the past week against peers that are broadly climbing. The analyst…
Cirrus Logic closed Tuesday at $110.81, up 2.6% on the week, but the analyst moves landing this morning tell a more cautious story than the price action alone suggests. The sharpest signal came from Barclays, where…
Churchill Downs Incorporated, the Louisville-based operator of the Kentucky Derby and a growing network of historical racing machine venues, goes into its October 28 earnings release with short sellers more active than…
Short sellers in CHH have trimmed positions even as the stock posted one of its stronger weeks in recent memory, a combination that puts the lending market and price action briefly on the same side of the ledger. Short…
CVX gained 3.7% over the past week, fractionally ahead of the median 3.3% move across its closest energy peers, and the stock now trades at $225.71, a dollar above the mean analyst price target. Among the peer group,…
CAKE closed at $116.43 on Tuesday, up 3.6% on the week, yet with 20.3% of the free float still sold short and Q3 results due October 27, the stock is carrying more bearish positioning than almost any other casual…
Caterpillar has dropped another 6.2% this week to $725.24, extending a selloff that has now erased nearly $140 per share from the August peak, and every metric in the setup is being read through the lens of the October…
Casella Waste Systems heads into its October 29 earnings report with a sharp price spike, a fresh analyst downgrade, and short sellers sitting on 8.3% of the free float. The story this week is a collision between a…
Capital One Financial reported Q3 earnings on October 22 against the most defensive options positioning in nearly a year, and the immediate analyst response has been a wave of upward target revisions across the…
