Pre-earnings analysis published 2–3 days before each company reports. Positioning, expectations, short interest setup, and options-implied moves.
Lucid Group reports Q3 results on Thursday with short sellers holding their largest position in at least a year and the borrow market near its tightest. Short interest has climbed to 31.5% of the free float, up 12%…
Hertz Global Holdings reports Thursday with 40% of its free float sold short, borrow costs at 162% APR, zero availability in the lending pool, and a stock that has clawed back 11% over the past month to $1.95. The…
EVCM arrives at its November 5 earnings print with the borrow market almost entirely locked up, a dynamic that makes the stock unusually sensitive to whatever the numbers deliver. The lending side of the story is the…
Harmony Biosciences heads into its November 4 Q3 earnings print with shorts at their most aggressive in months and options traders paying heavily for downside protection. The short interest story is genuinely…
MACOM Technology Solutions has fallen harder than its semiconductor peers over the past week, down 8.8% against a median decline of 4.3% for its closest correlated group, which includes Semtech, SiTime, and…
Galaxy Entertainment Group reports third-quarter results on Thursday, November 6, at a moment when short sellers have been building positions at their fastest pace in at least a year. Short interest has climbed 36%…
JAN reports its first quarterly results as a public company today against a backdrop of broad analyst optimism, a wave of fresh coverage initiations, and a modest softening in price targets ahead of the print. The…
LIFE enters its November 3 earnings report with short interest that has nearly doubled over the past month and its CEO reducing his stake on a pre-arranged plan, a combination that makes the ownership picture the most…
Voyager Technologies is a space and defense technology company that reports earnings today, November 3, after several weeks of mounting short pressure and a sharp single-day decline that left the stock at $24.59. Short…
HNGE enters its November 5 earnings report with short sellers pulling back sharply even as most of its closest peers face a rougher week. Among the correlated group, HIMS dropped 8.5% over the past week, NUTX fell…
Short interest in IBTA has dropped sharply over the past week, even as the stock climbs to its best levels in a month, a combination that tells a pointed story ahead of Tuesday's earnings. The retreat in short…
TBBB reports its first earnings as a listed company today with analyst price targets still trailing the share price, short sellers retreating, and the CEO holding a Schedule 13D activist stake, an unusual combination…
VNOM dropped 4.1% on Monday to $45.72, a sharp divergence from every one of its closest correlated peers, each of which closed higher. FANG gained 2.7% on the day, COP added 2.7%, and the rest of the peer group moved…
AESI dropped 10.7% on November 2, closing at $8.23, while its closest oilfield services peers fell between 4% and 13% on the same session. The stock has lost 31.6% over the past month. The question now is whether the…
VTS heads into its Q3 earnings release with an unusual split: short sellers remain deeply committed, yet options positioning has shifted sharply toward the bullish side. Short interest at 14.1% of the free float is a…
TPG, the San Francisco-based alternative asset manager, reports its next quarterly results on November 4 with short interest at its highest level in at least a year and a wall of analyst target increases arriving in…
GRAB reports third-quarter results today, November 3, with an unusual convergence of signals: a CEO making one of the largest open-market purchases in the company's recent history, short sellers cutting positions at a…
Crescent Energy Company dropped 5.1% on November 2 to $13.47, a day when every close peer posted gains of 1.8% to 2.5%. Chord Energy, Permian Resources, Talos Energy and Northern Oil and Gas all finished higher on the…
ReNew Energy Global reports today, but the most notable recent move in its data has come from short sellers walking away. Short positions have fallen 20% over the past week to roughly 0.84% of the free float. That…
SRAD heads into its Q3 earnings release on November 3 with the borrow market flashing one of its most constrained readings of the past year, even as short sellers trimmed positions over the last week. The lending…
XMTR carries a put/call ratio four standard deviations above its 20-day average into Tuesday's Q3 results, making it one of the most unusual options setups in its recent history. The options market is flashing its most…
An activist investor holding nearly 10% of MDA Space is the most consequential fact heading into Wednesday's earnings release, arriving as the stock trades at its weakest level in months. MARISELLE A.S. filed a…
VAL fell 10% on Monday to $94.69, a sharper single-day move than any of its closest peers. RIG dropped 10.2% on the same session, while NE fell 7.2% and SDRL lost 9.2%. The week's pattern tells a similar story: VAL is…
Recursion Pharmaceuticals enters today's earnings with a short position that dwarfs most of its closest peers. Short interest runs at 31.5% of free float, roughly 162 million shares, while correlated names like CRSP…
ABNB reports Q3 results on Thursday with options traders staking out the most defensive position seen all year, even as short sellers quietly cover and borrow remains essentially free. The options signal is the…
Among California Resources Corporation's closest energy peers, short positioning looks considerably more aggressive at several names. CRC carries 5.2% of its free float sold short, a meaningful but not extreme level…
GoodRx Holdings reports Q3 results on November 4, trading at $3.55 after a quiet month that saw shares gain just over 8% while short sellers retreated sharply from the stock. The retreat in short interest is the…
Kymera Therapeutics goes into its November 5 results with the stock up 11% in a single week, a wave of analyst target increases still landing, and options positioning that has turned noticeably more call-heavy, an…
People Incorporated is better shielded than most of its peer group right now, but that relative calm sits on top of a short book that has rarely been larger. Among its closest correlated names, short pressure is more…
Adeia Inc. heads into its November 5 earnings report with short sellers quietly stepping back even as the stock has shed a fifth of its value over the past month. The short-selling picture has turned notably less…
