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GameStop now has two forces moving in opposite directions at the same time: a CEO who spent $22.8 million buying his own stock in a single session, and a short book that has grown 51% in one week. The insider story is…
EXPE comes into the week with a sharply higher short position, a stock up 5% on the week, and the November 4 earnings date now just three weeks out. The most notable development since last week's note is a step-change…
VGK is a week into the bullish options repositioning flagged in last week's note, and while call dominance persists, the put/call ratio has crept back up from its floor, adding a note of ambiguity to what had looked…
SWRD is one of the more unusual small-cap setups on the market right now: a stock that costs over 300% a year to borrow, carries four fresh Schedule 13D activist filings, and sits on the edge of Russell 2000 inclusion,…
GFI enters mid-October carrying a sharp divergence between its one-month price performance and the conditions in its lending market, and that gap tells most of this week's story. The stock has fallen 17% over the past…
Tenaris heads into its November 4 earnings with the stock quietly regaining ground, up nearly 3% on the week to €26.01, but the more telling story is how little conviction either bulls or bears are showing in the…
4502 heads into its October 29 earnings release with short sellers in full retreat, borrowing costs near a monthly low, and the stock up 4.3% on the week. The clearest shift in positioning is in the lending market.…
HAR enters its October 23 earnings date with the borrow market telling a sharply different story from last week, as a brief spike in borrowing costs has reversed hard and lending availability has exploded wider. The…
ASML reported Q3 2026 results on October 14 and the stock's reaction tells a different story from the calm that preceded the print: the shares dropped 4.2% on the day and are now down 7.7% on the week to EUR 1,509.60,…
Elbit Systems heads into its November 17 results with borrowing costs spiking sharply and the stock down nearly 10% over the past month, creating an unusual tension between a loose lending market overall and a very…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company heads into its Q3 results on October 15 with the local shares down 3.7% on the week to TWD 2,490, a reversal from last week's rally to TWD 2,585, and the earnings reaction…
Toyota Motor is two weeks from its October 30 earnings report, and the lending market has continued moving in exactly the direction last week's note described: looser, cheaper, and further from any sign of short-side…
HBM heads into its October 29 earnings release with the stock down nearly 5% on the week, trading at CAD 36.55, even as the borrow market remains extremely loose and short interest stays well below any level that would…
Las Vegas Sands heads into its October 21 earnings report with Goldman Sachs cutting its price target again, short sellers adding quietly to positions, and the stock still sitting more than 50% below where most…
Equity LifeStyle Properties enters its October 19 earnings release with short interest rising sharply, analysts cutting targets in unison, and the stock down nearly 2% over the past month. The tension is real: shorts…
Texas Roadhouse heads into its October 29 earnings report with two forces pulling in opposite directions: analysts upgrading into the weakness, and short sellers adding positions at the fastest pace in months. The…
GOOGL arrives at its October 20 earnings print with the short book at a six-week low, options tilting call-heavy, and analysts lifting targets across the board, a setup that reads constructive rather than…
Domino's Pizza posted third-quarter results on October 12 and the market's verdict was swift: the stock fell 4.8% on October 13 to $296.10, down 5% over the past month, with analysts cutting targets across the board…
Salesforce enters the week with a split picture: the stock is up 5.8% over the past five days to $238.01, yet short interest has quietly started climbing again after last week's sharp unwind, creating a tension worth…
ALNY heads into its October 29 earnings with a 10% monthly decline, a steady stream of target-price cuts, and a low-probability but non-trivial index deletion risk all competing for investors' attention. The analyst…
