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SCI Posts Q2 Beat — What the Next Print Must Sustain

Service Corporation International reports again on July 30, one day after the market absorbed a Q2 beat that broke a two-quarter losing streak — and the question now is whether the fundamental story can support a stock…

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PSA Bears Keep Covering After Q2 Print

Public Storage reports again today, but the positioning story is already well advanced — shorts have been retreating for two weeks straight, and the data since yesterday's trader note shows the unwind continuing. Short…

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PPG Falls 6% on Results as Peers Rally Hard

PPG Industries enters its Q2 results with the stock down 6% on the day — a sharp divergence from the broader specialty chemicals sector that makes the print itself the story. The peer contrast is striking. SHW jumped…

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OHI Reports Today as Analysts Diverge on Medicaid Risk

Omega Healthcare Investors delivers its Q2 earnings today against a backdrop of extreme bullish options positioning and a sharply divided analyst community — the debate now less about momentum and more about whether…

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Nomura Options Defensiveness Deepens as Earnings Arrive

NMR reports its first-quarter results today with options traders now at their most defensive posture on record — and the hedging has intensified sharply since the July 26 preview. The options signal is the dominant…

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Loews Options Sentiment Flips Ahead of August Print

Loews Corporation heads into its August 3 earnings report with a dramatically changed options picture — the one data point that has shifted materially since the prior Q2 preview. The clearest development since the July…

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FICO Extends Rally Into Second Earnings Test

FICO enters its July 31 print riding a 12% weekly surge to $1,373 — momentum that has materially changed the setup from the bearish backdrop described in last week's preview, and now asks whether the rally has staying…

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BSAC Posts Back-to-Back Prints as Short Sellers Exit

Banco Santander-Chile heads into its July 31 earnings report with short sellers retreating and the stock up 6.5% over the past month — a setup defined less by speculative tension than by a quiet repositioning in the…

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APD Setup Holds Bullish Tilt Into Wednesday's Print

Air Products and Chemicals heads into its fiscal Q3 earnings today with positioning remaining constructively skewed — and a few minor shifts since the last preview worth noting. Options are the lead signal, and the…

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AEM Print Arrives After a Month of Target Cuts

Agnico Eagle Mines reports today with a stock down 8% over the past month and an analyst community that has spent three weeks resetting expectations — yet stopped well short of abandoning the bull case. The positioning…

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Mega-Cap Earnings Meet a Chip Meltdown

Markets are navigating two forces at once today. Big Tech earnings season hits its peak — MSFT, AAPL, and AMZN all report within 48 hours. At the same time, a chip sell-off is rattling the Nasdaq. SK Hynix missed…

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Chip Fear Floods the Options Pit

The AI sell-off is driving a sharp shift in options positioning. Chip names top both sides of the flow table — but the bearish bets are winning the volume war. NVDA sits at the centre of the storm. The Nasdaq 100…

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Analysts Lift Targets After Earnings Wave

A busy earnings week drove a wave of target price changes across Wall Street on July 30. IQVIA Holdings saw the biggest boost. The average analyst target jumped to $269 from $253 — a $16 lift. All 18 covering analysts…

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Insiders Buy as Sellers Cash Out

The past two weeks of filings reveal a split market. Buyers are concentrated in insurance and pharma. Sellers are cashing out of financials and refining names. Goosehead Insurance gets the most attention on the buy…

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Bears Bite Chewy and Hertz Hard

Short sellers are piling into consumer names. Chewy saw its SI % of Free Float jump 14 points in seven days to 80.4%. That is a sharp move for a $5.3B stock. Bears are clearly betting the pet retailer faces a rough…

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