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Executives and major shareholders filed a flurry of notable trades this week, spanning luxury retail, energy, and tech. RH CEO Sells $11.7M. RH Chairman and CEO Gary Friedman filed two sales totalling $11.7M on July 8.…
Short sellers are busy this earnings season. Wolfspeed now sits at an extraordinary 103% SI % FF — shorts exceed the entire free float. That's up from 98.6% a week ago. Availability has hit zero. Borrowing costs stand…
The week's biggest story is already building. Q2 earnings season kicks off in earnest, with major banks up first. Bank of America and BNY Mellon report Monday and Tuesday respectively. UnitedHealth Group steps up…
Q2 earnings season hits full stride this week. Banks dominate Monday and Tuesday before the spotlight swings to streaming on Thursday. Bank of America kicks off Monday, July 14, releasing Q2 2026 results pre-market.…
Analysts upgraded IFF to a consensus buy on Friday. International Flavors & Fragrances now has 15 buy ratings. The consensus target price stands at $91.21. Short interest runs at 7.2% of free float — modest, suggesting…
Fresh filings show a split picture on Wall Street. On one side, a 10% shareholder at AVO spent over $24M buying Mission Produce shares across three days this week. The purchases — filed July 8 and 9 — came in at prices…
Short sellers are piling into CoreWeave fast. The AI cloud stock's short interest hit 33.1% of free float on July 9. That's up from 28.3% just one week earlier — a 4.76 percentage point jump in seven days. Wolfspeed…
Q2 earnings season accelerates this week with a heavy slate of financial names. BAC, JNJ, and BNY report Tuesday. WFC enters its print with peers already rising and options volatility near multi-month lows — a calm…
Monday kicks off a heavy week for Q2 results. BAC reports Tuesday morning. JNJ and BNY also drop numbers on Tuesday. Wednesday brings one of the week's biggest moments. NFLX releases Q2 results after the close.…
Wells Fargo heads into its July 14 Q2 earnings report with options hedging at its lightest in months, peers lifting alongside it, and short sellers offering essentially no signal either way. The options picture has…
UnitedHealth Group enters its July 14 Q2 print having given back a fraction of June's recovery — the stock closed Thursday at $424.62, down 1.6% on the day but still up nearly 3% on the month and roughly 42% above…
Wall Street made a string of target price adjustments on Friday. Energy names led the upgrades while airlines and pharma faced cuts. Targa Resources drew the most bullish shift. The consensus target rose to $288, up…
STT heads into its July 14 Q2 print carried by the broadest pre-earnings analyst upgrade wave the stock has seen in recent memory. The analyst consensus has shifted decisively more constructive. Every major firm that…
PGR heads into Tuesday's July 15 earnings release with options traders turning measurably more defensive, even as the stock has pulled back slightly from the highs that triggered last week's analyst scramble. The…
OMC heads into its July 14 Q2 print with one of the more contradictory positioning setups in the advertising sector: short sellers have been aggressively covering, while the company's own executives were selling into…
NGG heads into its July 14 results with the most notable pre-earnings signal coming not from short sellers — who remain largely absent — but from the options market, which has turned sharply more defensive in the past…
Three fresh filings stand out in this week's insider trading data, with two CEOs selling and one major holder quietly accumulating. Applied Materials CEO dumps $55.5M. AMAT CEO Gary Dickerson filed sales totalling…
Johnson & Johnson heads into Tuesday's Q2 print having given back a chunk of its recent rally, with the stock now trading below even the updated analyst consensus mean. The price reversal is the sharpest development…
JPMorgan Chase reports Q2 earnings on July 14 with the stock at $336.47 — up 7.6% over the past month — and the analyst community visibly scrambling to keep pace. The most notable pre-earnings development is the…
Goldman Sachs arrives at Monday's Q2 earnings report having reclaimed most of the ground lost in June's selloff, with the stock up 3.3% on the week to $1,055 — and the positioning picture consistent with what prior…
