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AST SpaceMobile enters the week with a fresh analyst catalyst colliding head-on with a renewed price collapse — and short sellers who appear largely unbothered by either. The covering that began on July 10 has…
Ondas Inc. closed Thursday at $6.65 — down 13% on the week and 30% over the past month — while the short position against it extended its record run for the fourth consecutive week. Short interest has reached 56.8% of…
SIL — the Global X Silver Miners ETF — has shed 17% over the past month, yet the options market is positioned more bullishly than at almost any point in the past year, creating an unusual divergence between price…
The Trade Desk enters the final week before its August 7 results with a modest but meaningful shift in short positioning — bears added to their bets over the past week even as the stock slipped another 3% to…
Earnings season moves into its biggest week yet. Alphabet reports Tuesday after the close. Options traders are piling into calls. Short interest sits at just 1.5% of free float — bears are not in the room. Intel…
This week brings a packed earnings calendar. The biggest name drops Tuesday: GOOGL reports Q2 2026 results after the close on July 22. Investors will watch AI revenue growth and ad spending closely. Also on Tuesday,…
Analysts sent mixed signals Thursday. Two high-profile calls stand out from the latest round of rating changes. ISRG received an upgrade today. The consensus target price jumped sharply — from $547 to $509 on average —…
Insiders at major US tech companies filed significant sell transactions this week, with Dell Technologies grabbing headlines. Silver Lake Group, a board-level 10% owner of DELL, filed on July 13 disclosing it sold over…
Short sellers made bold new bets this week. Three names stand out as the biggest movers in the ORTEX data as of July 16. SPCX — Space Exploration Technologies Corp. — saw the week's most dramatic SI jump. Short…
US index futures slipped Thursday as markets digested a busy week of earnings and noise from Washington. The Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 all pointed lower in early trading. Alphabet reports Q2 results after the close…
The week kicks off with CCK Crown Holdings reporting Q2 results today, Monday. The packaging giant gives early clues on consumer demand trends. Tuesday brings AMSF AMERISAFE after the close. The specialty insurer's…
Netflix took three target price cuts in a single session. TD Cowen trimmed its target to $1,000 from $1,120. Bernstein cut to $950 from $1,000. Barclays went lower still, dropping to $800 from $850. All three analysts…
Venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners filed this week to disclose it sold over $26 million in TTAN shares. The sales ran across four separate transactions between July 10 and July 15. Bessemer holds a board…
Short sellers have been busy this week. Wolfspeed tops the most-shorted list with a staggering 78.5% of free float sold short. The chipmaker's cost to borrow has climbed to nearly 8% APR. Availability of shares to…
The week's biggest corporate event arrives Tuesday. GOOGL (Alphabet) reports Q2 results after the close on July 22. Investors will scrutinise AI-driven ad revenue and cloud growth. Options positioning is call-heavy —…
Today kicks off a busy stretch of corporate earnings. TFC (Truist Financial) reports Q2 results this morning, offering an early read on US regional banking health. The week's marquee event arrives Tuesday. GOOGL…
Analysts trimmed targets on several major names today. NIKE saw the sharpest consensus move, with the average target price falling to $51.12 from $51.36. The stock carries a $51.3B market cap. Short interest sits at 6%…
Short sellers turned aggressively bearish this week on two very different names. HTZ saw its short interest hit 70.8% of free float — up 11 points in just seven days. Availability of shares to borrow has fallen to…
Options traders are pricing in more downside protection for NI. The put-call ratio jumped to 1.09 on July 16 — 45% above its 20-day mean of 0.75. The z-score of 3.6 places this move in rare territory. It is the highest…
Short sellers have piled into MUU at a pace rarely seen in leveraged ETF markets. Short interest jumped from roughly 1 million shares on July 13 to 14.3 million shares on July 15 — a 4,895% surge in one week, pushing…
