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Options markets are pricing in a big week. GOOGL reports alongside a wave of financials, banks, and industrials. Traders are loading up on both sides. UNH stands out. The healthcare giant carries just 2% SI % FF. Yet…
GOOGL kicks off a pivotal week on Tuesday. Alphabet reports Q2 2026 results after the close. Investors want clarity on AI spending and search revenue trends. IBM also reports Tuesday. The legacy tech giant has been…
Wall Street shifted bullish on financials this week. Morgan Stanley received an upgrade. The consensus moved from Hold to Buy territory. Its average analyst target price now stands at $231.86. State Street also drew…
A wave of insider selling dominated recent filings, but one battered avocado stock is attracting serious buying interest. ASTS founder and CEO Abel Avellan filed on June 23, disclosing he sold 2.5 million shares worth…
Short sellers dramatically increased bets against HTZ this week. Hertz short interest hit 70.1% of free float as of July 16, up from 60.3% just seven days earlier — a near 10-percentage-point jump. Shares available to…
Q2 earnings season moves into high gear this week. Alphabet reports Tuesday after the close — the $2 trillion search and cloud giant carries just 1.5% short interest, and options put flow is running hot ahead of the…
Q2 earnings season hits full stride this week. Three closely watched names report results, and short sellers are paying close attention to at least one of them. Tomorrow — Tuesday, July 22 GOOGL reports Q2 after the…
Iovance Biotherapeutics enters the week of July 18 carrying one of the more interesting tensions in small-cap biotech: a stock up 31% in a month, yet still carrying 26% of its free float sold short — and shorts have…
Financials dominated analyst activity on Friday. Morgan Stanley picked up an upgrade, with the consensus average target rising to $231.85 from $226.48. The $339 billion bank has just 1.5% of its free float shorted — a…
CCJ enters its most important earnings print in months as a stock that has lost a third of its value since January — the question now is whether the fundamentals can arrest a slide that the lending market says shorts…
WBTN enters the week of July 18 under visible pressure — down 10% over the past five trading days and 16% over the past month — yet the short-selling community is quietly unwinding, even as the borrow market tells a…
A pattern of sustained insider selling has emerged at TTAN. Bessemer Venture Partners — a 10% owner with a board seat — has now filed to sell over $112 million worth of shares across multiple transactions this month.…
S&P Global enters its July 28 earnings release on the front foot — up 5% on the week and 9% over the past month — yet with a weakening technical picture beneath the surface that gives the setup an interesting edge. The…
Charter Communications heads into its July 24 earnings with a striking divergence: analysts are slashing targets at an accelerating pace while options traders are positioned more bullishly than at any point in the past…
Alkermes trades at $52.72 heading into its July 27 print, with short sellers retreating and analysts sharply split — the most interesting tension this week is not positioning but the widening gap between bullish…
Allison Transmission heads into its July 24 earnings report with short interest having jumped sharply over the past month, even as the borrow market stays loose and options traders lean bullish — a setup that puts the…
SQQQ enters the weekend with two forces pulling in opposite directions: the borrow market has become one of the tightest it has been all year, yet options traders are leaning bullish on the ETF — itself a bet on Nasdaq…
SMR heads into its August earnings with a sharp but isolated short-interest build this week, set against a stock that just posted its best weekly gain in months. The tension is straightforward. SMR rallied 14.5% over…
TLT is no longer retreating — the short rebuild flagged in this week's earlier note has consolidated, and the question now is whether bears add further or pause after snapping back 9.4% in a single week. The…
W. R. Berkley Corporation recovered 2.4% on Thursday to close at $71.61 — but the stock is still down on the week, and it walks into Monday's Q2 earnings call with the analyst community more negatively positioned than…
