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DAL enters its July 10 Q2 earnings print with the stock trading above the consensus price target — a position that reflects just how aggressively analysts have been forced to chase a rally that has now added 14% over…
UNG enters July with short sellers pressing harder than at any point in the past month — and the borrow market confirming the conviction. The short position has accelerated sharply. Short interest climbed 51% over the…
Super Micro Computer enters July with the short trade fully rebuilt and options markets flashing their most defensive reading in at least a year — a sharp reversal from the brief retreat flagged just ten days ago. The…
Carter Bankshares heads into a holiday-shortened week carrying two uncomfortable signals at once: short interest has nearly doubled in a month, and the only analyst to move on the stock in the past 24 hours just cut…
BMW ends June carrying a 23% monthly loss — one of the sharpest sell-offs among European premium automakers this year — even as a cluster of board-level insiders bought stock at higher prices just weeks ago. The price…
RHM has dropped 23% in a month and 15% in a week alone, yet the company's own CEO has spent roughly $14 million buying shares in the past six weeks. That divergence — a stock in freefall, insiders loading up — is the…
AeroVironment posted a stunning 19% single-day gain on June 30 after its earnings print, yet the surrounding data suggests the bounce has done more to relieve pain than to reset the thesis. The earnings reaction is the…
ALGT is caught in an unusual tug-of-war: the stock has rallied 28% in a month and 14% in a single week, yet short sellers are building positions at the same time a wave of analyst upgrades lands — leaving the market…
LDOS enters July with analysts cutting targets in unison, the stock down nearly 20% over the past month, and a Q1 earnings print still fresh in investors' minds — the question now is whether the selling is finished or…
CAR enters July with a striking internal contradiction: short sellers pulled back sharply over the week, yet options traders are the most defensive they have been in months. The stock dropped 22% on the week to…
SAIA enters the second half of the year with a fresh analyst upgrade pulling against a stock that has shed 11% over the past month — a tension that frames much of what's worth watching heading into July earnings…
XPO enters July with a fresh upgrade in hand, a week of short covering behind it, and Q2 earnings on the calendar — a setup that puts the bull case squarely back in focus. The most significant move this week came from…
SLV enters July with the lending market telling a very different story from last week — shorts are rebuilding, borrow is tightening, and the ETF has given back another 4% on the week even as it clawed back 1.5% on…
USO has dropped another 4.3% on the week to $106.44 — extending a brutal 17.5% one-month slide — and the short unwind that began mid-June is accelerating, even as the lending market refuses to fully relax. The most…
Himax Technologies enters July with a striking divergence: short sellers are rebuilding positions at the fastest pace in months, yet the stock bounced 5.3% on Tuesday even as the week ended down 9%. The most notable…
United Airlines Holdings enters the final stretch before its July 14 Q2 earnings report with the Street in full target-raising mode, the stock up 12% on the week, and short sellers showing no sign of conviction. The…
ABCB enters the final stretch before its July 30 earnings with a fresh analyst downgrade landing just as short interest hits a one-month high — a combination that gives the stock's recent 7% run a more complicated…
Brookfield Corporation heads into its July 16 earnings with a cluster of insider selling and a stock that has quietly slipped 3.1% on the week — a more interesting setup than the near-dormant short data suggests. The…
NG. enters its July 14 results with one of the most benign short-selling setups in the UK utility sector — the real story this week is not what bears are doing, but how little they are doing at all. The borrow market…
Western Alliance Bancorporation enters its July 17 Q2 earnings date with short interest climbing sharply, options positioning tilting more defensive, and analysts quietly nudging targets higher — a setup that carries…
