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Waste Connections reports Q3 results on October 21, and the week's most striking feature is not the short interest itself but the contrast between a stock slipping quietly lower and a peer group that has spent the week…
Dream Finders Homes heads into its October 30 earnings release carrying 26% of its free float sold short, a level that has climbed almost 20% in a single week, against a stock that has lost a quarter of its value over…
Permian Resources heads into its November 5 earnings date with a striking contradiction at its core: short sellers have sharply rebuilt positions over the past week while analysts are simultaneously lifting targets and…
SPCX is caught in an uncomfortable split: the stock has shed nearly 9% in five sessions to $156.54, yet the bears who should be benefiting keep closing their positions. That disconnect, between a falling stock and a…
TEAM heads into its October 29 earnings with analysts raising targets in unison, short sellers retreating, and an index addition probability hanging over the stock. The analyst bid is the clearest signal this week.…
HPE gave back last week's gains almost as fast as it made them, and a fresh downgrade is the news that changes the story. Barclays analyst Tim Long cut HPE to Equal-Weight from Overweight on Wednesday, trimming his…
The story for XLRE this week is a clear reversal: the short rebuild that dominated the first week of October has unwound almost as quickly as it arrived. Short interest has fallen 15% over the past week to 2.35% of the…
Alamos Gold heads into its October 28 earnings release with the stock down nearly 9% over the past month, short interest quietly rising, and a peer group sending mixed signals. The most notable tension this week is in…
CC heads into its November 5 earnings with a fresh downgrade from a bellwether name, a stock that has shed 12% over the past month, and a short position that has been building steadily since September. The most notable…
Shopify heads into its November 3 earnings report with a striking split: the Street is chasing the stock higher with fresh target upgrades, while short sellers have quietly been rebuilding positions through October at…
SEDG gave back ground this week, falling 4.4% to $32.53, even as the prior note noted an 8% gain to $34.04. The most pointed development was a same-day analyst cut that brought a price target level with the current…
Medtronic has seen one of the most dramatic short-side reconfigurations in the large-cap medical device space this week: a position that was negligible six weeks ago has grown to nearly 9.5% of free float, and the…
Sunrun enters its November 4 earnings with the analyst community still cutting targets, short interest anchored near its highest levels in months, and options traders noticeably more defensive than they were a week…
OKTA has added another 3.6% this week to $226.53, extending a month that has now delivered a 36% gain, and the most interesting development is no longer the short rebuild flagged last week but a convergence of two…
W heads into its October 29 print with short interest at its highest level in over a month, yet the lending market remains far too relaxed for this to read as a squeeze setup. Short interest has moved meaningfully…
Advanced Drainage Systems heads into its November 5 earnings report with short sellers rebuilding positions, analysts trimming targets, and the stock trading nearly 30% below the Street consensus. Short interest has…
argenx SE enters its October 22 quarterly results down 14% on the week and nearly 16% over the past month, a sharp deterioration that makes the insider selling flagged last week look increasingly well-timed. The stock…
JD.com heads into its November 12 earnings with short sellers cutting positions at a notable pace, while options traders have turned more bullish than they have been all year. The clearest development in the lending…
Alibaba enters the week of October 13 with a notable shift from the prior week's narrative: the stock has actually moved higher, and shorts are covering in size, two things that last week's note flagged as missing from…
ATEN enters its November 5 earnings window with short interest at a one-month high, a muted price gain over the past week, and the Street divided between a bullish growth story and a fragile service provider…
