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Three major US consumer brands report this week as Q2 earnings season closes out. Markets will be watching closely. Today brings earnings calls from CGEH Capstone Energy+ and QMCO Quantum Corporation, both reporting…
QUALCOMM is the standout in today's analyst activity. The chipmaker scored a consensus upgrade and saw UBS lift its target price sharply to $235 from $170 — a 38% jump in the target alone. The upgrade pushed QUALCOMM's…
AST SpaceMobile founder and CEO Abel Avellan filed on June 23 to disclose he sold $146.7 million worth of shares. The trade, executed on June 22, covered 2.5 million shares at $58.68 each. His CFO and President also…
Short sellers are piling into a handful of US names this week. Here are the standout moves from ORTEX data. WOLF — Wolfspeed — sits at 117% SI % FF, up from 101% just seven days ago. That 16-point jump is the biggest…
Micron Technology is the standout analyst story of the day. DA Davidson raised its price target to $2,000 and Wells Fargo lifted to $1,525. Wedbush added to the chorus, pushing to $1,400. All three kept Buy ratings.…
Three names stand out in the options market as the week closes: NKE, STZ, and DELL. NIKE reports earnings next week. Options expiries cluster through July, with the July 17 contract drawing the most open interest.…
Today marks the start of a packed earnings stretch. CGEH Capstone Energy+ and QMCO Quantum Corporation both report Q4 2026 results this afternoon after the bell. Tomorrow, APOG Apogee Enterprises holds its Q1 2027…
Micron Technology attracted the most aggressive price target moves on Wednesday. DA Davidson's Gil Luria raised his target to $2,000 from $1,500. That is a $500 jump in a single call. Wells Fargo's Aaron Rakers also…
Short sellers are making bold moves this week. Wolfspeed now carries a staggering 117.4% SI % of FF — up 16.5 percentage points in just seven days. Zero availability remains. The troubled SiC semiconductor maker has…
Micron delivered a strong earnings outlook overnight and sent AI-linked stocks higher. Futures for the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all gained on the back of the news. QUALCOMM and AMD rallied in sympathy. Memory stocks…
Defensive options positioning is building in semiconductor-linked ETFs as chip shorts spike and borrow markets tighten. MUU, the Direxion Daily MU Bull 2X ETF, is flashing the clearest signal. Options traders turned…
SOXL shorts are back. One day after availability appeared to stabilise, short interest jumped 49% in a single session. The borrow market is tightening again — and cost to borrow has tripled since the start of…
The put/call ratio on MUU jumped to 0.79 on June 24 — a z-score of 2.39 against the 20-day mean. That is the most defensive options positioning in two weeks. It arrives as the borrow market snaps back to its tightest…
Today brings a cluster of confirmed reports. MKC — McCormick & Company — releases Q2 2026 results this morning. DRI — Darden Restaurants — also reports today before the open. WGO — Winnebago Industries — posts Q3…
Intel attracted fresh analyst attention today. A new recommendation was issued as the consensus target rose to $96.07, up from $94.75. Intel has a $664bn market cap. Short interest sits at just 2.6% of free float —…
Insider selling dominated filings this week, with three major US names seeing significant executive disposals. At DELL, private equity firm Silver Lake Group unloaded over $869M worth of shares across multiple tranches…
Nebius Group pulled back 5.7% on Wednesday to $259.66. Even so, the stock is still up 21% over the past month. Three lending-market and options signals are now pointing the same way — and none of them are bullish for…
Options traders are piling into calls on CB at an unprecedented rate. The put-call ratio has dropped to 0.58 — 3.06 standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 0.68. That's the lowest PCR reading in 52 weeks. The…
Options traders are betting against the selloff in RING. The put-call ratio hit 0.163 on June 24. That is a 2.5-sigma low versus the 20-day mean of 0.238. Call buyers are dominating even as the ETF drops 13.7% over the…
Why this matters: Options traders are making one of the most extreme bullish bets of the year on the OUNZ VanEck Merk Gold ETF — even as short sellers rapidly build opposing positions. The two camps are diverging…
