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Marathon Petroleum has moved from a stock where the Street was chasing the price to one where a meaningful subset of analysts is now ahead of it, and that shift in dynamic is the most interesting development of the…
EFX has made a sharp reversal this week, jumping 14% on Tuesday alone and 13% over the past five trading days to close at CAD 39.11, erasing a significant portion of the year-to-date losses that had weighed on the…
Huntington Ingalls Industries heads into its October 29 earnings report with short interest rising sharply, analysts cutting targets, and the stock down 8% over the past month. The most striking positioning development…
Meta Platforms heads into its October 21 earnings report with an unusual split: the stock has recovered sharply from its mid-October trough, analysts are mostly raising targets, and yet Goldman Sachs cut its price…
AGNT heads into November earnings with a stock price almost exactly at the threshold that decides whether it stays in the S&P SmallCap 600, short interest running at 9% of free float, and a founder-linked selling event…
Independence Realty Trust heads into its October 28 earnings report with short interest climbing, analysts trimming targets, and a pending acquisition that could mechanically reshape its investor base early next…
Tesla heads into its October 21 Q3 results at $375.23 with a notable reversal in the short-selling picture: the rebuild flagged in Sunday's stock report has now unwound, shorts have trimmed again, and the one dataset…
GM closes the week at $84.00, up 2.4%, with Q3 results six days away on October 20, and the setup remains broadly constructive even as a pair of bellwether firms dialled back their price targets on Monday. The most…
Starwood Property Trust heads into its November 6 earnings date with short sellers pulling back modestly even as the stock drops to fresh lows, creating an unusual split between positioning and price. The most striking…
Matador Resources heads into its November 3 earnings with short sellers adding positions into a rising stock, creating an unusual tension between negative positioning and bullish analyst conviction. Short interest has…
Virtus Investment Partners heads into its October 30 earnings release with the stock down 13% over the past month, two major analysts cutting price targets this week, and short sellers holding a meaningful 7.2% of the…
GLD has now shed roughly a quarter of its short interest in a single week, a sharp acceleration in the covering trend that dominated the previous note, and this time the borrow market is moving with it rather than…
BMNR, the bitcoin immersion-cooling miner, has seen its short thesis unravel sharply this week: short interest has fallen faster than at any point since early September, and the bears who were rebuilding positions just…
NetApp heads into mid-October with a fresh analyst downgrade pulling against a stock that has risen 20% in a month, a short position that lurched higher then sharply reversed, and a growing whisper that the Nasdaq-100…
Visa heads into its October 27 fiscal Q4 print with more momentum, tighter short positioning, and a call-leaning options market than at any point in the past two months. The two-week rally that the prior note flagged…
MSCI reports Q3 results on October 20 with a notable tension: short sellers have been adding positions at an unusual pace while the borrow market and options signals remain far from stressed, a split that sets up an…
CVR Energy has added another 10% this week and sits at $63.12, meaning the stock has now climbed 27% in a month and left every analyst price target on the Street well below the current price. The gap between market and…
InterDigital heads into its October 29 earnings print with short sellers quietly rebuilding positions and a short score that has held stubbornly elevated for weeks. Short interest is the most active signal on IDCC…
QQQ closed Tuesday at $743.57, down 2.1% on the week, and the headline short interest figure is now moving in two directions at once: the weekly build remains meaningful, but the most recent daily reading shows a…
TRV reaches its Q3 earnings release on October 16 with the price up 3.5% on the week to $373.28, a stock now trading materially above where the Street thinks it belongs, and a July quarter that set a very high bar. The…
