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Two analysts moved on AFYA on Monday. The signals point in opposite directions, and that tension is the story heading into a November 12 earnings print. Citigroup's Leandro Bastos upgraded Afya to Buy from Neutral. The…
Goldman Sachs upgraded Sirius XM Holdings to Buy on Monday, raising its price target to $37 from $33. The stock closed at $29.57 on November 2, up 7.9% on the week, against a median peer gain of 1.6%. The Goldman move…
Seven days before earnings, EchoStar is attracting an unusual combination of signals: short interest at 15.4% of free float, down 11.3% week-on-week, retail attention running 2.97 standard deviations above its 90-day…
Broadstone Net Lease short sellers have not covered. Short interest stands at 10.9% of the free float as of November 2, up 22.6% over the past week and sitting at the same elevated level that built ahead of the October…
MRVL has lost 26.7% in a week, a decline roughly five times steeper than the median of its closest peers. The earnings fallout is spreading across Wall Street desks, with nine separate analyst actions arriving on…
IDXX jumped 21.8% on November 3, its biggest single-day gain in recent memory, after reporting results that landed well ahead of expectations. The stock closed November 2 at $671.64, up 29.6% over the past month. The…
Zebra Technologies reports earnings today. The options market has shifted sharply in the final hours before the print. The put/call ratio reached 1.81 on November 2, against a 20-day mean of 1.44. That puts it 3.1…
IDACORP sits well below the crowded end of the regulated utility pack. Short interest at 8.6% of free float compares with higher conviction shorts among mid-size peers; closest correlate LNT has moved 5.1% over the…
JMKE is a New Jersey-based sandwich chain that went public earlier this year. It now faces a compressing borrow market, a stock up 11% in a week, and an index announcement expected within days. The cost to borrow JMKE…
Why this matters now: ORCL dropped another 8.8% on Monday to $119.22, extending a brutal slide that has now erased 16% over the past month. Three separate signals converged on the same day: an analyst upgrade, a sharp…
Viking Holdings short sellers have maintained their elevated position through the first days of November. Shares short stand at 10.3 million, equal to 3.3% of free float, up 15.9% over the past week and 30.6% over the…
Marsh & McLennan rose 5.5% last week, outpacing the median 2.9% gain for its closest insurance brokerage peers. BMO Capital's upgrade to Outperform, with a new $230 target, lands as short interest climbs to its highest…
Three distinct data streams on Consolidated Edison are pointing the same direction with two days to go before the November 5 earnings report. Short interest has fallen 11.8% over the past week to 3.19% of the free…
RDDT shed 29% in a single session after its Q3 earnings print. The stock is now down 38% over the past month and 34% in just one week, a collapse that makes every comparable peer look stationary: PINS fell 4.3% on the…
Aon plc, the global insurance broker navigating a $13 billion USI acquisition that divided the Street for most of 2026, just posted its strongest weekly gain in months. The stock rose 10.4% over the past week to…
NiSource has risen 3.3% over the past week, in line with its closest utility peers, yet options traders are pricing in more downside protection than at any point since May 2026. The put/call ratio jumped to 0.703 on…
Rosenblatt's Barton Crockett downgraded ROKU to Neutral from Buy on Monday, keeping his $160 price target intact while the stock trades at $155.52. The move adds to a pattern: Wells Fargo, Guggenheim, and Seaport…
Cloudflare has dropped 24% over the past month to $265.17. JP Morgan chose today to upgrade it. Why this matters: Three distinct data types are converging ahead of Wednesday's earnings report. An analyst upgrade is…
Itau BBA downgraded KOF to Market Perform this morning, setting a $116 price target on Coca-Cola FEMSA just as short interest has climbed 40% over the past month. The stock trades at $117.05, already above that…
