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ABBV has added another $1.60 since Sunday's recovery note and now trades at $256.10 — six days from a Q2 earnings print that has become the most anticipated catalyst on the pharma calendar this month. The analyst…
ServiceNow hits its Q2 earnings release tonight with a familiar tension intact: the stock is softer on the day, the sector is broadly lower, yet short sellers are still reducing positions rather than adding pressure…
Schneider National heads into its July 30 earnings report with analysts raising price targets, options positioning at its most bullish in months, and short sellers quietly rebuilding positions after a sharp mid-month…
Diamondback Energy heads into its August 3 results with the Street broadly constructive but quietly recalibrating, even as the stock adds nearly 5% on the week. The most striking dynamic this week is the pattern in…
BEP.UN enters its July 31 earnings print with the lending market looser than it has been all year and short sellers trimming exposure — a backdrop that contrasts with the stock's 8% slide over the past month. The…
Phillips 66 has climbed 27.8% over the past month to $212.27, and the Street is still scrambling to reprice — a dynamic that sets up an interesting test heading into Q2 results on July 30. The analyst story is the…
SMH has bounced 4.5% in a single session to $584.08, yet the stock is still down nearly 3% on the week and more than 11% over the past month — a relief rally inside a deeper drawdown, with shorts trimming but far from…
Enphase Energy enters its Q2 earnings print — due July 28 — with short sellers adding to positions, the stock down sharply on the month, and TD Cowen slashing its target just days before the release. The short interest…
Allison Transmission reports Q2 results on Thursday with shorts having lightened into the print and the Street clustered at neutral — leaving the earnings release itself as the clearest near-term catalyst. The short…
MPC heads into its July 28 earnings report with shorts cutting exposure, analysts lifting targets, and the stock up 32% in a month — the question now is whether the fundamental print can validate a run that has already…
Nebius Group erupted 19% on Tuesday to close at $216.92, driving what is already the most heavily shorted stock in this coverage universe into an acute pain trade — with 28.6% of the free float short and borrow…
HDV, the iShares Core High Dividend ETF, has had an unremarkable week on the surface — up 1.9% to $28.17 — but the lending market tells a more interesting story underneath. Borrow availability has tightened sharply…
Meta Platforms enters its Q2 earnings release tonight with analysts moving targets higher on the day of the print — a rare show of conviction that sets a demanding bar for the result. The analyst moves are the defining…
BankUnited just printed its July 22 earnings, and the setup heading in — shorts building, Citi bearish, the stock trading below consensus — has resolved with the shares up a quarter-percent on the week and sitting at…
Sabra Health Care REIT heads into its August 3 earnings report with a 10% single-day gain and a sharp jump in downside hedging — two signals pulling in opposite directions. The price move tells the bull story clearly.…
URA, the Global X Uranium ETF, enters the back half of July in an unusual spot: the price has fallen sharply while the lending market has simultaneously loosened — a combination that tells a story about where short…
VOOG enters the back half of July with an unusual internal contradiction: short interest has roughly doubled in a month, yet the lending market remains far too loose to suggest any meaningful squeeze pressure is…
VOO has just printed the fourth major put/call ratio collapse in seven weeks, and this one is the most dramatic yet — raising a question the previous three iterations left open: is the pattern finally breaking, or…
Tesla reported Q2 earnings on Tuesday evening, and the stock is trading at $378.93 — down 4.4% on the week but up 2.5% on the day, which tells you the immediate reaction was relief relative to what options traders had…
FN enters the final stretch before its August 17 earnings report with a notable shift in sentiment — the stock surged nearly 9% on the week to $527.35, options traders have rotated sharply from defensive to bullish,…
