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Short sellers stepped up bets across several US names this week. The biggest mover was GRND. Grindr's SI % of free float jumped to 21.7%, up from 13.7% just seven days ago, an 8 percentage point rise. CBRS, Cerebras…
China ETFs pulled in $23.9B in the past week. That is the single biggest geographic inflow on the board. The buying is sharp, with a flow imbalance of 82.8, meaning outflows were a small fraction of gross activity. The…
Bears are building positions in Venture Global even as the stock outpaces nearly every close peer. Short interest has climbed to 9.5% of free float, up 10.7% in a week, while Wikipedia views and ORTEX page traffic hit…
Chemed's pre-earnings short build has started to unwind. Jefferies upgraded CHE to Buy on Wednesday, raising its target 19% to $620 and pointing to a VITAS hospice rebound in 2026 and improving margins as the key…
Short sellers have been cutting exposure to OKTA at an unusual pace. Among its closest peers, NET and MDB carry heavier short positioning. OKTA's own short interest has fallen to 3.86% of free float, the lowest in two…
Three signals converged on Tesla this week, each pointing in a different direction. Barclays upgraded to Overweight. The borrow market loosened further. Yet the options market is the most cautious it has been in…
Today is one of the heaviest single days of earnings season. Amazon and Intel both report Q3 results after the US close. Amazon is expected to show continued strength in cloud. Intel faces harder questions about its…
PT Bank of India Indonesia Tbk (BSWD) reports tomorrow against one of the more unusual price backdrops in the Indonesian banking sector: the stock has climbed 438% over the past month, with a 124% gain in the past week…
Earnings season is driving a stark split in the options market. Bulls and bears are staking opposite positions ahead of key prints, with the clearest divergence in insurance and homebuilding. The Hanover Insurance…
ARXS heads into its first post-IPO earnings release with options markets pricing in far more caution than the recent price strength would suggest. The put/call ratio hit 1.77 on October 28, a 52-week high and well…
Wolfspeed arrives at today's earnings release carrying what may be the most extreme short positioning in the semiconductor sector, and the data has grown more acute since the October 21 note. Short interest has climbed…
MCHB reports its latest quarterly results today against a backdrop of modest stock weakness and a notable shift in options positioning over the past two weeks. The most distinctive change heading into the print is in…
Amrize AG reports third-quarter results today, and the most striking pre-earnings signal came not from options desks or short sellers but from the company's own chairman and chief executive. Jan Philipp Jenisch spent…
Nextpower heads into its October 30 earnings release with the short position still elevated but showing early signs of retreat, while options traders have swung unusually bullish, creating a split in the positioning…
Franklin BSP Realty Trust reports Q3 2026 results on October 29 against a backdrop where the stock's market cap has drifted far enough below index thresholds to put it at real risk of mechanical selling before…
HIPO heads into its October 29 earnings release with the stock up 23% over the past month, options positioning tilted bullish, and a notable change in the activist register that has yet to fully play out in the…
ASTL heads into its October 29 earnings report on a 16% surge over the past month, with options traders shifting decisively to the bullish side even as short sellers quietly add to their positions. The options signal…
Porch Group enters its October 29 earnings report with short sellers adding positions at a pace well above their own historical norm, while insiders have been consistently reducing holdings at the same time. Short…
Kymera Therapeutics reports third-quarter results on October 29 with short sellers pulling back sharply even as the stock reaches its highest price in more than a year, a divergence that sharpens the question of…
GFL Environmental Inc. arrives at its Q3 earnings call having given back some ground, with the stock down 3.7% on the session before the report and closing at CAD 60.91, a notable step back from the CAD 64 level cited…
