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Silver Lake Group filed this week to reveal it sold over $213 million worth of DELL shares. The private equity firm, which holds a board seat, offloaded nearly 500,000 shares on July 9 at around $452 each. The filings…
Equity LifeStyle Properties heads into Monday's Q2 earnings with a fresh analyst downgrade adding edge to an already cautious Street setup. Barclays cut its rating to Equal-Weight from Overweight on July 14 — just…
Webster Financial heads into its July 20 Q2 earnings report with short sellers quietly building pressure while the broader market debate over credit quality and margin trajectory remains unresolved. The most notable…
TT heads into its July 20 earnings release with options traders maintaining a bullish lean — though less aggressively than the call-buying surge flagged ten days ago. The put/call ratio has edged up slightly from the…
Halliburton arrives at Sunday's Q2 earnings print trading nearly 20% below the Street's consensus target — a gap that frames the entire debate around whether the macro backdrop for oil services activity can justify a…
Crown Holdings heads into its July 20 earnings report having outrun its packaging peers by a wide margin, with a wave of upward analyst revisions confirming the Street is taking the rally seriously. The analyst…
Brown & Brown arrives at Monday's Q2 earnings report having rallied 17% in a month — yet with short sellers building positions at the fastest pace in weeks, creating a genuine standoff heading into the print. Short…
Short sellers made big moves this week. SPCX — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX's listed entity) — saw the sharpest SI jump among large caps. Short Interest as a % of Free Float leapt from 3.7% to 26.6% in just…
WRB heads into its July 20 earnings print with the analyst picture moving decisively more cautious — even as the stock itself has pulled back from the levels that prompted last week's coverage. The single biggest…
Two names are dominating short interest talk. HTZ Hertz now has 70.8% of its free float sold short — up from 59.7% just one week ago. Zero shares are available to borrow. That's a textbook squeeze setup if sentiment…
Short interest signals are flashing red across several high-profile names this week. Earnings season and Middle East tensions are shaping where traders are placing hedges. SPCX saw the sharpest short interest jump of…
Today kicks off a busy week for earnings. TFC Truist Financial is first out of the gate, releasing Q2 results this morning at 8am ET. The biggest event of the week lands Tuesday, July 22. GOOGL Alphabet reports Q2…
Analyst activity on Thursday leaned bullish. Target price upgrades dominated, with financials and industrials seeing the most action. PGR earned the day's only outright upgrade. Progressive's rating moved higher as…
Filings this week reveal a wave of C-suite selling across US stocks, while one Chinese CEO made a blockbuster bet on his own company. RH CEO Leads the Sellers Gary Friedman, Chairman and CEO of RH, filed disclosures…
Short interest data as of July 15 reveals sharp moves in several names over the past week. HTZ is the week's biggest mover. Hertz short interest jumped from 59.7% to 70.8% of free float in just seven days. That's a…
Options traders have turned sharply bearish on REPL just as short sellers begin covering. The divergence is the standout story on Replimune Group right now. The put-call ratio hit 0.71 on July 15. That is 2.47 standard…
ISRG reported a Q2 beat but stock fell after hours. Management flagged China as a growing headache. Domestic robotic competition is rising. Policy-driven pricing pressure is squeezing margins. The stock had already run…
Barclays made the boldest call of the day. Analyst Ramsey El-Assal upgraded PYPL from Sell to Hold. The new target price is $55. That is a 31% jump from the old $42 target. The upgrade reflects shifting sentiment on…
Silver Lake Group filed this week disclosing it sold $266 million worth of DELL shares. The sales ran from June 12 through July 9, offloading over 626,000 shares at around $451–$453 each. Silver Lake holds a board seat…
Short sellers got busy this week. SPCX (Space Exploration Technologies) saw the most dramatic move — SI % of free float rocketed from 3.65% to 26.63% in just seven days. That's a +23 percentage point jump. Bears are…
