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SoundHound AI enters July with its short side more dug in than ever — short interest has now crept above 42% of the free float, the borrow market remains completely sealed, and yet options traders are still leaning…
Lucid Group heads into Q3 with the most extreme short-side setup in its recent history — borrow costs have nearly doubled again in four days, short interest keeps climbing, and the stock is up 29% on the week…
NKE closed out its fiscal year with a Q4 print on June 30 that reset the investment thesis — weak wholesale demand, inventory headwinds, and FY2027 guidance cut to flat-to-low-single-digit growth. The stock has shed…
CRWV enters July with a genuinely different setup than the one that dominated June — short interest has collapsed from the elevated levels flagged in recent notes, insiders have been selling into that weakness, and the…
FuelCell Energy closed Tuesday at $36.01 — up 65% in five days and 21% in a single session — yet the short base is growing faster than at any point in recent memory, creating the sharpest tension yet in a trade that…
Bloom Energy ends June with a notable shift in tone — the defensive options extreme flagged in the previous note has unwound, analysts are racing to raise targets, and the stock is holding near $302 after a 10%…
July 1 marks the first day of Q3 — and bears are starting aggressively. Wolfspeed leads the pain trade. Short interest hit 114.8% of free float, up nearly 15 points in seven days. Shares to borrow have dried up…
The options and short-selling market is sending sharp signals as July begins. Bears are piling into several names with intensity not seen in months. Wolfspeed tops the list. Short interest hit 114.8% of free float, up…
Today marks the first trading day of Q3 2026. A handful of smaller companies kick off the earnings season. Today (July 1) brings results from four companies. BSET — Bassett Furniture Industries — reports Q2 2026…
Citigroup slashed its target on CEG to $297 from $348 — a 15% cut — while keeping a Hold rating on the nuclear energy giant. The move signals growing caution on power stocks after a strong run. CEG carries a market cap…
A hedge fund unloaded nearly $196 million in PRM shares in just five trading days. Windacre Partnership LLC, a 10% owner and board member of Perimeter Solutions, filed Monday showing it sold 5.7 million shares between…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. WOLF (Wolfspeed) saw the biggest jump — SI % of Free Float hit 114.8%, up 14.7 points in seven days. Availability has dropped to zero. That means borrowing shares is nearly…
US stocks just closed their best quarter in six years. July opens with fresh momentum across tech, AI, and insurance names. Meta Platforms is building a cloud business to sell excess AI compute. That is a meaningful…
Options markets lit up this week around chip and cloud names. Macro headlines drove the action. Chip stocks whipsawed on Iran war fallout and AI spend fears. NVDA carries the most active options expiry calendar. It…
General Mills fires the starting gun on the Q3 earnings season today. The food giant reports Q4 2026 results this morning. Analysts will watch margins closely amid stubborn input cost pressures. FactSet Research…
Salesforce picked up an upgrade from analysts today. Consensus moved from Hold to Buy territory. The average target price sits at $246.44. The software giant carries a $129bn market cap. Short interest is modest at…
Insider filings from the past week reveal sharp moves at several companies. The patterns cut both ways — bold buying in Sweden contrasts with heavy selling in the US and Hong Kong. Stefan Persson, close relative of the…
Options traders are betting against the bears at HIG. The put-call ratio has dropped to 0.77 — nearly three standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 0.93. That's the most bullish options positioning in months, even…
Three signals converged on RXRX Tuesday. Availability has hit zero. Short interest sits at a multi-month high. And options traders are piling into calls, not puts. The signals point in different directions — and that…
LEVI reports Q2 2026 earnings on July 8. The short-covering that began last week has continued — but the borrow market is now sending a contradictory signal. Short interest has fallen another 20% this week to 6.9% of…
