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Why this matters: Zillow Group has dropped 17% in a month. Major brokers are slashing price targets. Options traders just pushed the put-call ratio to its most bearish reading in weeks. Three signals. All pointing the…
The first big test of the Q2 earnings season arrives Monday June 30. NKE reports Q4 2026 results after the close, with traders focused on tariff exposure and China demand. STZ follows the same evening with Q1 2027…
Earnings season opens this week. Options markets are already pricing in volatility across several key names. NKE and STZ headline the reporting calendar Thursday. NKE carries a short interest of just 4.1% of free…
The week's marquee event arrives Monday June 30: NKE reports Q4 2026 results after the close. The sneaker giant carries a $50.8bn market cap. Short interest sits at 4.1% of free float — modest, but traders will be…
Citigroup analyst Patrick Cunningham made a sweeping set of moves across the chemicals sector on Wednesday. The calls covered five stocks and sent several consensus targets higher. Sherwin-Williams was the standout…
A wave of insider selling hit AMAT this week. CEO Gary Dickerson filed trades totalling over $35M in share sales across June 15–18. The company's Independent Chairman Thomas Iannotti filed an additional $5.5M sale.…
Short sellers made bold new moves this week. WaterBridge Infrastructure saw the sharpest jump — SI % of Free Float leapt from 30% to 83% in just seven days. That is a 53-point surge. Availability has also tightened to…
ALOY's lending pool has essentially run dry. Availability collapsed to 0.03% on June 23 — down from 55% just four days earlier. Every share in the borrow market is now lent out. That is the steepest single-week…
A bombshell AI dispute is rattling markets this morning. Anthropic wrote to US senators Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott, accusing BABA of stealing 28.8 million Claude conversations to train its own models. The letter…
Today brings a flurry of earnings action. MKC kicks off Wednesday morning with its Q2 2026 call. CMC and MEI both report at 11am ET. DRI posts Q4 results before the open. WGO releases Q3 figures at 9:30am ET. CGEH…
Citigroup analyst Patrick Cunningham made a sweeping round of target price changes in the chemicals sector on Wednesday, producing clear winners and one notable loser. Sherwin-Williams got the biggest boost. Citi…
Citigroup analyst Patrick Cunningham made a series of moves across the specialty chemicals sector Wednesday, lifting targets on SHW and LIN while slashing IFF. Cunningham raised his target on Sherwin-Williams to $380,…
Top insiders filed major stock sales this week. The biggest names: NVDA, WMT, and ASTS. An NVDA director, Mark Stevens, filed $186M in sales on June 23. He sold 885,000 shares at around $210 each. The trades occurred…
NAVN reports this afternoon with options traders leaning more bullish than at any point in the recent past — a striking contrast to the insider distribution documented in yesterday's note. Options positioning has…
Worthington Steel reports its fiscal Q4 results today with the options-driven caution flagged yesterday still intact — and the sector backdrop has darkened overnight. The defensive tilt in options has not unwound into…
H.B. Fuller reports its fiscal Q2 results today with short sellers at their least committed in months and the options market no longer signalling the defensiveness it showed two days ago. The options tone has shifted…
Short sellers made bold moves this week. WaterBridge Infrastructure saw the biggest jump. Its SI % of FF leapt from 30% to 83% in just seven days — a 53-point surge that stands out across all US mid-caps. Wolfspeed…
BB steps into its June 25 earnings print at CAD 12.54, down 2.3% on the week but 15% higher over the past month — a stock that has run hard, pulled back, and now sits at exactly the kind of inflection where the result…
NKE Nike headlines the week's corporate calendar, reporting Q4 2026 results on Tuesday after the close. Options markets are already defensive. Heavy put open interest sits at the $35 strike for July 17. Bears dominate…
Options markets are buzzing ahead of a busy earnings week. NKE, STZ, and CRM all report this week. Traders are pricing in big moves. NKE shows heavy put open interest at the $35 strike for the July 17 expiry. Over…
