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BNT reports Thursday after the close with short sellers having spent the past six weeks unwinding positions — a backdrop that removes one obvious source of downside pressure heading into the number. The retreat in…
Citizens Financial Group heads into its July 16 Q2 earnings report with the Street's conviction building — yet the stock still trades at a discount to where analysts think it belongs. The analyst signal is the clearest…
WMS heads into its July 16 earnings release with options traders running notably more defensive than usual — even as the borrow market tells a far calmer story. The put/call ratio has climbed to 1.98, near its 52-week…
Three major US insider stories crossed the wire this week, covering nearly $200 million in combined activity. DELL saw its largest shareholder move first. Silver Lake Group filed on July 8, disclosing it sold $78.5…
PLD enters its July 16 Q2 earnings release with positioning firmly in neutral territory — options are balanced, short sellers are retreating, and borrow conditions are essentially unlimited. The lending market tells…
U.S. Bancorp heads into its July 16 Q2 earnings report with the options market sending its clearest bullish signal of the past year, even as the analyst community remains split on how much of the recovery is already…
Marsh & McLennan enters its July 16 earnings print with one signal that has shifted materially since the prior note: options positioning has turned notably more defensive, even as the analyst debate and borrow market…
GE Aerospace heads into Wednesday's Q2 report with options positioning shifting toward caution — a notable change from the neutral setup flagged just days ago. The clearest development heading into the July 16 print is…
Short sellers turned up the heat on CRWV this week. CoreWeave's short interest hit 33.1% of free float — up 4.76 percentage points in just seven days. The AI cloud stock, valued at nearly $40bn, is drawing heavy…
Bank earnings dominate the agenda this week. JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley are all set to report. Markets expect strong profits driven by trading revenues and deal activity.…
Short sellers and options traders are circling two names hard this week. Wolfspeed stands out as the most extreme situation in the market right now. Short interest on WOLF has blown past 103% of free float.…
Analyst activity this week shows a notable split: upgrades in beaten-down sectors and quiet target trims on heavyweights. The standout move is an upgrade on IFF. International Flavors & Fragrances climbed to a higher…
Three notable clusters of insider selling hit US markets in recent weeks, with the biggest action centered on semiconductor equipment giant AMAT. Applied Materials CEO Gary Dickerson filed sales of over $80M worth of…
Short sellers are targeting AI infrastructure and beaten-down chips. CoreWeave saw its short interest climb to 33.1% of free float as of July 9. That's up from 28.3% just one week earlier — a 4.8 percentage point jump…
The biggest earnings week of the summer kicks off now. BAC and PGR report Tuesday. BNY follows Wednesday. Thursday is the heavyweight round: NFLX, UNH, and ISRG all report the same day. Options markets are already…
Options markets are flashing caution signals this week. Several major names report earnings, and short interest data from ORTEX highlights where traders are positioning most aggressively. UNH heads into its earnings…
A packed earnings week kicks off Monday. US financials dominate the early days. Tuesday brings results from BAC (Bank of America), reporting Q2 2026. PGR (Progressive) also drops June numbers on Tuesday. AEHR (Aehr…
Wall Street analysts have been busy lifting price targets, with upgrades and upward target revisions dominating this week's activity. META leads in volume. The consensus target rose to $828 from $828, with 56 analysts…
A flurry of insider filings this week revealed sharp contrasts — aggressive buying at one small-cap food company and heavy selling at a recently IPO'd software firm. The boldest buy came at AVO. GlobalHarvest Holdings,…
Short sellers are piling into CRWV fast. CoreWeave's SI % of FF jumped to 33.1%, up 4.8 percentage points in just seven days. The AI cloud infrastructure firm has become one of the most actively shorted large-cap…
