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Charles River Laboratories attracted the most analyst action today. Barclays raised its target to $330 from $300 and kept a Buy rating. Mizuho followed, lifting its target to $295 from $264. Both moves came after CRL's…
An NVIDIA board director filed a flurry of sell transactions in early September, offloading shares worth over $400 million in total. Mark A. Stevens, an Independent Director, reported sales of roughly 1.75 million…
Short sellers are on the move. Data as of September 24 shows some sharp shifts in the past seven days — and a few names are flashing real squeeze risk. MRNA is the standout cover story. Short interest dropped nearly 2…
This week's calendar is packed. Micron Technology is the headline act, reporting Q4 2026 results on Wednesday. The stock is up 279% year-to-date. Short interest sits at just 2.4% of free float — but options traders are…
Options markets are buzzing ahead of a packed earnings calendar. Micron Technology, NIKE, and Carnival Corporation are all due to report imminently. Bears and buyers are converging on all three names. MU is the most…
Wells Fargo's Stephen Tusa kicked off a wave of coverage initiations on Friday, taking aim at key industrials and data centre names with sharply divided views. VRT was the standout Buy call. Tusa set a $340 target on…
An NVDA board member filed a massive stock sale in early September. Mark Stevens, an independent director at NVIDIA, sold $411 million worth of shares between August 31 and September 2. The filing was reported on…
Short sellers are busy ahead of a key earnings wave. MU reports this week and bears are watching. SI sits at just 2.4% of free float. But the real action is elsewhere. SPCX — Space Exploration Technologies — saw SI…
Fixed income absorbed $14.4B last week as investors pulled a net $46.4B from US equity ETFs — the single biggest redemption story in current flow data. That reversal is stark against the three-month backdrop, where…
Micron Technology is the single stock drawing fire from every angle right now. Short sellers are building positions ahead of Wednesday's Q4 2026 earnings call. Options traders rank MU as the top negative-bet name of…
Options flow is flashing caution ahead of a packed earnings week. Micron Technology topped the ORTEX negative options bets screen for the week. The chip stock has surged 279% year-to-date. Traders are paying up to…
A packed week of earnings kicks off Monday. IDT reports Q4 2026 results on Monday. Vail Resorts and Jefferies Financial Group also release numbers the same day. Tuesday brings the biggest name of the week. Carnival…
Wells Fargo analyst Stephen Tusa made a bold move Friday. He initiated coverage on five industrial names in a single sweep. Vertiv Holdings was the standout. Tusa gave the data centre power giant a Buy rating with a…
An NVDA director filed disclosures today showing the sale of $411 million worth of shares. The filing landed as NVIDIA's stock sits near record highs, with a market cap of $5.4 trillion. The scale of the transaction is…
Short sellers are making bold moves this week. MiniMed Group saw the biggest SI jump among mid-caps. Its short interest rocketed from 38.5% to 68.3% of free float in just seven days. Cost to borrow sits at 18.2%.…
Micron Technology is everywhere today. Short sellers piled in ahead of the chipmaker's earnings print. Options bears lean hard on the name too. Analysts have been trimming targets across tech. All roads point to…
Analysts cut their consensus target price for PAYX by nearly 3% this week. The payroll services giant now has a consensus target of $113.93, down from $117.29. The stock has lost 9.4% year-to-date. Its RSI sits at a…
NVIDIA board director Mark Stevens filed disclosures on September 2 revealing he sold approximately $411 million in stock over three days. The trades spanned August 31 through September 2. Stevens offloaded roughly…
Short sellers made big moves this week. MMED (MiniMed Group) saw its SI % of FF jump from 38.5% to 68.3% in just seven days — a near-30 percentage point spike. The stock has gained 40% over three months. Bears appear…
US-focused ETFs shed $46B in a single week. That is the biggest geography outflow by a wide margin. Meanwhile, global ex-US funds pulled in $8.2B — a sharp contrast to the three-month picture where the US attracted…
