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CVLG reports Q3 earnings on October 30 against a backdrop of a stock that has lost nearly 12% over the past month and short sellers who have quietly added to their positions. Short interest has climbed meaningfully…
CUZ heads into its Q3 earnings report today with short sellers adding positions at a measured but accelerating pace, even as the stock continues to grind higher. Short interest has climbed 16% over the past month to…
Short sellers have built their largest position in CDP in over a year, adding roughly 1.9 million shares in a single week to push short interest to just under 9% of the free float. That weekly increase of nearly 23%…
AptarGroup reports Q3 results this morning with the stock sitting at $130.64, its firmest level in over a month, and the broader positioning picture largely unchanged from the October 27 preview. Options traders are…
Alliant Energy, a regulated Midwest electric utility, reports Q3 results this morning with short sellers holding one of the more elevated positions in the sector. Short interest is a genuine story here. Bears have…
PS reports Q3 2026 results on Monday after a bruising month. The stock fell 17% in October before recovering 9% over the past week to close at $49.15, a rebound that still leaves it well below where it was trading when…
RDDT has lost 13.7% over the past week to $129.60, a move that stands out sharply against a median decline of just 2.3% across its closest peers. PINS fell 8.8% over the same period, SNAP dropped 6.1%, and YELP lost…
VLTO reports this morning with the options market sending an unusually bullish signal, even as short sellers have quietly rebuilt positions over the past week. The clearest positioning story is in options. The put/call…
Corebridge Financial reports Q3 results on November 2, and the setup around the retirement-and-life insurer is unusually split: its largest shareholder is buying stock every single day under a formal plan, while short…
LTH is the most shorted name among its closest leisure peers heading into Thursday's print, with short interest at 6.8% of free float, a level not seen in at least the past year. Correlated names including TXRH and TNL…
Short interest in RBLX has pulled back from its October peak, falling 5.7% over the past week to 4.0% of the free float, roughly 26.4 million shares. That reverses a build that pushed positions to 4.4% of float as…
ARES reports Q3 results on October 30 after a week in which the stock added 3% to close at $127.47, erasing some of a year-to-date decline that had reached nearly 28%. The recovery brings the stock within 14% of the…
ASE Technology Holding, the Taiwan-based semiconductor packaging and testing giant, reports third-quarter results Thursday after a week that saw the stock surge 18% to $44.55, a sharp reversal from the 14% decline that…
Ingersoll Rand reports third-quarter results today against a backdrop that has shifted sharply since the previous earnings preview published four days ago: the stock is up 8% over the past week to $80.01, while its…
Short sellers have pulled back sharply from Twilio in the days before Thursday's earnings release, reversing a build-up that ran through most of October. Short interest dropped 21% over the past week to 5.37 million…
Penumbra reports Q3 results on November 2 against a backdrop that has shifted fundamentally since its last print. A agreed acquisition by Boston Scientific means the earnings call is now as much about deal confidence…
Arista Networks has seen short sellers reduce their positions meaningfully ahead of Monday's Q3 report, even as the stock gave back ground over the past month. Short interest has dropped 18% over the past month to…
ABBV goes into its Q3 earnings release today carrying the lightest short position in at least a year, a product of a six-week unwind that has cut the bet against the stock nearly in half. Short sellers held more than…
BWX Technologies gained 8.4% over the past week to close at $137.93, outpacing the median 4.7% gain among its closest peers. Curtiss-Wright added 4.7%, Astronics rose 6.2%, and Woodward gained 3.3%. The week's standout…
An NVIDIA director filed to offload more than $410 million in stock in early September. Mark A. Stevens, an independent board member, sold over 1.8 million shares across four days, at prices around $220 to $226. The…
