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Universal Insurance Holdings has seen a sharp reversal in short positioning in the six days since Q3 results. The borrow market has moved decisively in the same direction, and retail attention has jumped to its highest…
Analyst pressure hit LII hard on Wednesday. Wells Fargo's Stephen Tusa cut his target on Lennox International from $424 to $355, keeping a Hold rating. The broader analyst consensus also moved lower, with the average…
Filings reported on 1 to 3 September show Bill Gates accumulated more than $220 million worth of RSG shares across a cluster of open-market purchases. Gates, listed as a main shareholder, bought at prices between $220…
Short interest jumped sharply in several mid-cap names in the five days to 28 October, with bears picking new targets across pharma, energy, and social media. LQDA saw the biggest move among names with meaningful…
SQN heads into its November 5 earnings release with short positioning at historically low levels and a lending market that has flipped from tight to loose in the span of a month. The most striking shift in the data…
Zebra Technologies heads into its November 3 earnings report with short sellers continuing to exit and the borrow market among the loosest on record for the name, leaving the pre-earnings setup defined almost entirely…
Fine Organic Industries reports its next earnings on November 2, and the stock arrives at that event carrying a stretched premium multiple, flat short-term price action, and an ownership structure where founders still…
RIGD heads into Thursday's earnings print down 6% on the week and 5% on the month, but the short-selling community is showing no particular urgency to press that weakness. The positioning picture is one of striking…
LANXESS enters its November 5 earnings release with bears gaining ground and the stock at multi-year lows, a setup that makes the next print one of the more closely watched in the European chemicals calendar. The most…
RLI Corp. has extended its post-earnings gains, but the week's data shows short sellers quietly adding pressure even as the stock climbs to new highs. The stock closed at $63.76 on Wednesday, up 14.5% on the month and…
Howmet Aerospace is the standout US mover today. The company beat earnings estimates, raised guidance, and announced a buyback. The stock rose on the news. Microsoft got fresh analyst support after its Q1 results, with…
Chip stocks and autos dominate the heaviest negative options bets of the past week, according to ORTEX screening data. Micron Technology and Meta Platforms top the list of names absorbing the largest bearish options…
Today brings a wave of major results. BUD Anheuser-Busch InBev reports with a $160B market cap on the line. ING Groep also posts today, alongside COLM Columbia Sportswear in the US. In Europe, Adidas delivers its…
SO Southern Company's reactor output fell 10.0 standard deviations below its own history as of 28 October. The reading, drawn from NRC reactor status data, is an extreme outlier by any measure. A deviation of that size…
Wells Fargo dominated analyst activity on Thursday, cutting price targets on at least four stocks in a single session. The moves hit HVAC maker LII, elevator group OTIS, medtech giant BSX, and wealth manager RJF. The…
The freshest filing data available from ORTEX's vendor insider table runs to 8 September 2026, leaving a roughly seven-week gap to today. US EDGAR Form 4 tables were not accessible in this environment. The trades below…
Short sellers sharpened their bets across several names this week. Data from ORTEX as of 28 October shows the clearest moves came in mid-cap growth stocks, not the usual micro-cap suspects. WOLF remains one of the…
China ETFs pulled in $23.9B in a single week. That is the dominant story in fund flows right now. The buying pressure score hit 82.8 out of 100, meaning selling was almost absent. Over three months, China had attracted…
Post-earnings signals on CSTM are pulling in opposite directions. The stock fell 4.5% over the past week, the steepest drop among its closest peers, while put demand and analyst caution both ticked up after the Q3…
BMI stands out as one of the more heavily shorted names in its peer group. Short interest sits at 14.8% of free float, well above ITRI, its closest correlated peer. Among the broader electronic equipment and…
