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TORO CEO Buys $14.3M as Shorts Rush In

Toro Corp. finds itself at a rare crossroads. Its CEO is aggressively buying shares. Short sellers are piling in at the same pace. The borrow market has gone from quiet to tight in under two weeks. Between April 21 and…

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AXTI: Analysts Chase a 68% Rally — Short Sellers Dig In

AXTI has moved fast. AXT, Inc. shares are up 68% in a month and surged 21% on May 1 alone. Now three distinct data streams are pulling in opposite directions — and the options market just flashed a clear warning…

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SGOV Shorts Rise as Put Demand Ticks Up

Three converging signals are drawing attention to SGOV, the iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF. Short shares have climbed steadily for three weeks. The put-call ratio just broke above two standard deviations. Yet the…

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HTCO Borrow Market Fully Seized as Cost to Borrow Tops 118%

Short sellers pushed HTCO (High-Trend International Group) into a full lending-market lockout. Every share in the borrow pool is effectively lent out. Cost to borrow has exploded 3,429% in a month. Availability has…

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Avis Budget Shorts Unwind as Analysts Turn Bearish

Short sellers are retreating from CAR at speed. Short interest has fallen 36% in a single week to 17.3% of free float. That unwind is the dominant story — but the analyst community is moving in the opposite…

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SNDK: Wall Street Raises Targets as Short Sellers Add to Bets

Eight analysts lifted price targets on SNDK in a single day. The stock has surged 87% in a month. Yet short sellers keep adding — and options traders are hedging hard. That contradiction is the SNDK story right now. On…

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LCID Borrow Market Hits Maximum Pressure

LCID shares are priced at $6.54 — down 31% over the past month. The lending market behind those shares has reached a breaking point. Availability has collapsed to 0%. Every share in the lending pool is currently lent…

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POET Borrow Market Tightens as Four Signals Align

Short sellers piled into POET Technologies last week. Four distinct ORTEX signals fired in the same window — and they all point in the same direction. Cost to borrow is the standout. CTB hit 8.33% as of April 30. A…

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HOOD Analysts Trim Targets Ahead of Q1 Print

Robinhood Markets heads into its May 6 Q1 earnings release with a wall of analyst target cuts behind it and a stock already down 13% on the week. The past two weeks produced a wave of downgrades in ambition if not…

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AUR Heads Into Earnings With Shorts Exposed to a 49% Rally

Aurora Innovation enters its May 6 Q1 2026 earnings report after a punishing month for anyone positioned against it. The stock has surged 49% over the past month to $6.13, compressing the shorts. Short interest remains…

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Lucid Heads Into Earnings with Bears Fully Committed

LCID reports Q1 results on May 5 with one of the most aggressively short lending markets in the US equity universe — and a borrow cost that just doubled in a week. The lending picture tells the most charged part of the…

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LYFT's Heavy Short Load Heads Into a Bruising Print

LYFT reports Q1 results on May 5 carrying one of the heavier short positions in the ride-share space — but the bears have been quietly pulling back, and options traders are leaning bullish rather than defensive. Short…

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INSG: Options Flip Bulls While Short Sellers Hold Ground

Inseego Corp. heads into its May 6 Q1 2026 earnings report with options traders turning sharply more optimistic — even as a meaningful short position stays dug in. The options story is the clearest signal into this…

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Short Sellers Loaded Up Before Atlassian's Q3 Print

Atlassian heads into its Q3 fiscal 2026 earnings on May 6 with short sellers having quietly built one of the more meaningful bearish positions in the application software space — even as the stock just posted a…

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Infineon's 53% Rally Puts the Earnings Bar Sky-High

Infineon Technologies heads into its May 6 Q2 results carrying the weight of a 53% price surge in a single month — the kind of move that leaves little margin for disappointment. The price action is the dominant story.…

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Kenvue Bears Ease Off Ahead of Q1 Print

Kenvue heads into its May 7 Q1 2026 earnings release with shorts retreating and borrow conditions that offer little drama — but analysts have spent the past month quietly lowering the bar. Short sellers have been…

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DINO Leads Refiners Into Earnings on a 15% Weekly Rally

HF Sinclair Corporation heads into its May 7 Q1 print as the week's standout performer in the refining complex — but the rally has outrun analyst targets, and the fundamental cloud hanging over the company has not…

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Shell Shorts Build Into Q1 Print

Shell plc heads into its May 7 Q1 results with a notable and accelerating build in short positions — a rare burst of bearish activity on a stock that normally attracts little short-selling attention. The shorted share…

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MP Materials: Shorts at 14% of Float Ahead of Q1 Print

MP Materials heads into its May 7 Q1 results carrying one of the most charged short positioning profiles in the mining universe — and a 38% price rally over the past month that has left bears under significant…

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Unity's Short Sellers Retreat Into Earnings

Unity Software enters its May 7 earnings report in a notably different position than it faced just weeks ago — a stock that has rallied 24% in a month while short sellers quietly pare back positions. Short interest has…

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