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Short sellers made aggressive moves this week. Wolfspeed tops the leaderboard with SI % FF at 129.9% — up nearly 27 points in seven days. Zero shares are available to borrow. Bears clearly see more pain ahead for the…
Chip stocks dominated analyst activity today. Micron saw its consensus price target lifted to $1,410. Applied Materials got a direct Buy reiteration from Wells Fargo, with a new $740 target. Both names carry thin short…
A rare tug-of-war has emerged in SOUN (SoundHound AI) options this week. Short sellers hold 41% of free float short. Yet options flow has tilted bullish — a notable split that rarely goes unnoticed. SOUN's ORTEX…
USA Compression Partners gained 5.1% on the week to close at $26.34 — bucking a broad sell-off across its correlated peers while the short score quietly eased from a mid-week spike. The most striking feature of this…
Three high-profile US names report this week, with NKE headlining on Monday. NIKE, Inc. drops Q4 2026 results today after market close. The sportswear giant carries a market cap near $49 billion. Short interest sits at…
XTB has dropped nearly 5% on the week to PLN 104.12, a soft patch that sits in contrast to a lending market almost entirely indifferent to the move. The most striking feature of XTB's positioning right now is just how…
Micron Technology drew the biggest target price move this week. The consensus average jumped to $1,410 from $1,398. Micron carries a $1.28 trillion market cap. Short interest sits at just 3.7% of free float — bears are…
Rezolve AI has emerged from its June 26 earnings print with short interest rebuilt, borrow costs at their highest level in months, and the stock down 11% on the week — the setup bears had been leaning into has now…
SoundHound AI closes out the week with a striking contradiction: short sellers are pressing their most aggressive position in months, yet options traders are the most bullish they have been all year. The short side of…
LATENTVIEW heads into its July 31 earnings event carrying a month of steady price erosion and a Street that has gone quiet — the question is whether the underlying analytics story still justifies a premium…
Lucid Group is sitting in a rare and uncomfortable place: short interest is rising into a borrow market that has essentially closed, and the stock still just surged 15% in a single session. The borrow picture is about…
Faeth Therapeutics is at the centre of a striking divergence this week: short sellers are rapidly covering a historically extreme position while the company's own CFO is stepping in to buy shares on the open…
Moderna has now re-rated 43% in a single month, yet the short base has not just survived the rally — it has grown through it. Short interest has climbed to 15.4% of the free float, edging up roughly 3% over the past…
MongoDB has snapped back 6.8% on Friday to $314, recovering ground after a brutal week that left it down 5.6% — and the June 30 earnings print is now the only thing that matters. The bounce is real, but the…
ROKU is caught between two opposing forces: short sellers who have rebuilt to a 2026 high and options traders who are the most bullish they have been all year. The short interest story is striking in its speed. Bears…
VOO has now completed its third options sentiment collapse of June, but this one arrived without the safety net that cushioned the previous two. The prior two PCR collapses — on June 9 and June 16 — happened while the…
Capricor Therapeutics fell 13% on Friday to $26.44, erasing the twin weekly gains that had animated two consecutive "bears losing ground" narratives — and the short position that rebuilt so aggressively last week shows…
A011170 heads into the final days of June with the worst week in its peer group, down 18% as shorts maintain elevated borrow costs and the stock trades at a fraction of book value. The price action is the headline.…
BLK has shed more than 10% over the past month to close at $964.71, yet the options market is leaning more constructively than it has in weeks — creating one of the more unusual setups heading into Q2 earnings on July…
Pershing Square USA enters the back end of June in an unusual bind: the stock is down 7% on the week and nearly 9% over the past month, yet insiders committed half a billion dollars at launch — and the borrow market…
