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Johnson & Johnson is doing something unusual post-earnings: options traders have abandoned their defensive posture at a pace that has driven the put/call ratio to its lowest reading in a full year. The options signal…
Jacobs Solutions heads into its August 4 earnings date with the most notable shift this week coming not from short sellers but from the options market, where put demand has spiked to a level that stands well apart from…
JPMorgan Chase is back above $345 after a brief post-earnings consolidation, and the most interesting tension right now is not in the short book — it is in the gap between where the stock is trading and where a freshly…
IBM reports Q2 earnings after the close today, and the defining tension is a disconnect between an analyst community that spent the past week aggressively cutting targets and a short-seller base that has barely stirred…
Intel has answered the binary question the market spent two weeks debating: the Q2 print landed, the stock jumped 8.6% on July 21, and at $105.45 it has now clawed back above the pre-report close of $95.04 — yet the…
IDACORP heads into its July 30 earnings with a fresh analyst upgrade on one hand and an options market signalling the most defensive posture in months on the other. The most striking development this week came from the…
IDT Corporation enters the back half of July with a striking split personality: options traders have rarely been more bullish on the stock, while virtually every insider who has touched the register recently has been a…
HSY enters its July 30 earnings print with Wall Street steadily walking down estimates and the Milton Hershey School Trust quietly trimming its enormous stake — a combination that keeps the stock pinned near multi-year…
WELL heads into its July 27 earnings release having gained nearly 20% over the past month, with options positioning flipping sharply bullish and analysts racing to lift targets. The clearest signal this week is in the…
Healthcare Services Group heads into the second half with an unusual combination: options traders positioned more aggressively on the upside than at any point in recent memory, while short sellers remain a modest and…
HAS delivered its Q2 print on July 23, and the Street's reaction lands into a setup that was already clearly nervous: options traders had stacked on downside protection ahead of the report, and analysts had spent the…
Hancock Whitney Corporation delivered its Q2 results on July 21, and the Street wasted no time marking up its views — with analysts on both sides of the bull/bear divide nudging targets higher even as the stock gave…
Halliburton dropped 5.5% on Tuesday following its Q2 release, widening the week's loss to 6.3% and closing at $33.19 — a stark reversal from the pre-earnings recovery that had briefly lifted the stock to $35.42. The…
Greene County Bancorp reports tomorrow — July 23 — and the stock has quietly become one of the more interesting setups in community banking this week, with short interest tripling over the past month even as the price…
Goldman Sachs heads into the back half of July with the post-earnings dust settling — the stock has recovered to $1,085.56, the analyst consensus target has converged to $1,134, and the key question now is whether the…
Genuine Parts Company arrives at its July 23 earnings event with analysts turning more constructive and options traders remaining tilted bullish — even as the stock slipped 2.7% Tuesday to $119.12 on what appears to be…
GE Aerospace enters the week after its Q2 print in a familiar post-earnings pattern — a modest sell-off absorbed, analysts raising targets into the weakness, and options positioning holding more cautious than the…
General Dynamics heads into its July 29 Q2 earnings print with options positioning flashing the most bullish signal seen in twelve months — a sharp contrast to the cautious tone that has defined the defense sector this…
Ford heads into its July 27 earnings report with a notable shift: the options market has swung sharply more defensive since last week's note, even as the stock itself has recovered. The clearest change from the July 15…
Fiserv walks into its Q2 earnings release on July 24 with short interest climbing on the day before the print and the Street uniformly trimming targets — but with a borrow market that remains far too loose to read as a…
