Pre-earnings analysis published 2–3 days before each company reports. Positioning, expectations, short interest setup, and options-implied moves.
Wells Fargo heads into its July 14 Q2 earnings report with options hedging at its lightest in months, peers lifting alongside it, and short sellers offering essentially no signal either way. The options picture has…
UnitedHealth Group enters its July 14 Q2 print having given back a fraction of June's recovery — the stock closed Thursday at $424.62, down 1.6% on the day but still up nearly 3% on the month and roughly 42% above…
STT heads into its July 14 Q2 print carried by the broadest pre-earnings analyst upgrade wave the stock has seen in recent memory. The analyst consensus has shifted decisively more constructive. Every major firm that…
PGR heads into Tuesday's July 15 earnings release with options traders turning measurably more defensive, even as the stock has pulled back slightly from the highs that triggered last week's analyst scramble. The…
OMC heads into its July 14 Q2 print with one of the more contradictory positioning setups in the advertising sector: short sellers have been aggressively covering, while the company's own executives were selling into…
NGG heads into its July 14 results with the most notable pre-earnings signal coming not from short sellers — who remain largely absent — but from the options market, which has turned sharply more defensive in the past…
Johnson & Johnson heads into Tuesday's Q2 print having given back a chunk of its recent rally, with the stock now trading below even the updated analyst consensus mean. The price reversal is the sharpest development…
JPMorgan Chase reports Q2 earnings on July 14 with the stock at $336.47 — up 7.6% over the past month — and the analyst community visibly scrambling to keep pace. The most notable pre-earnings development is the…
Goldman Sachs arrives at Monday's Q2 earnings report having reclaimed most of the ground lost in June's selloff, with the stock up 3.3% on the week to $1,055 — and the positioning picture consistent with what prior…
Citigroup heads into its July 14 Q2 print with the analyst community more constructive than it has been in years — but the stock has already outrun several freshly raised targets, leaving the earnings release to…
Bank of America arrives at its July 14 Q2 earnings release with the constructive setup that has defined the past several weeks largely intact, though the stock has given back a few cents from the $59.86 high printed…
América Móvil heads into its July 14 earnings release with a sudden spike in options defensiveness that stands out against an otherwise relaxed lending backdrop. The clearest pre-earnings signal is in options. The…
Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico reports Q2 results on July 13 with the Street's tone shifting meaningfully bullish after a year of mixed signals — the key question is whether the underlying numbers can justify the…
The dominant story heading into WIT's July 13 Q1 FY2027 earnings is not the analyst consensus or even the stock's 15% one-month slide — it is the dramatic unwind of one of the most extreme borrow squeezes seen in the…
Simply Good Foods reports its latest results today against a backdrop where insiders and short sellers are both reducing their downside exposure, even as the Street's analyst community has turned decisively…
WD-40 Company reports after the close today with the stock up 21% in a month, shorts rebuilt into the rally, and options traders the most defensive they've been in weeks. The positioning picture is consistent with…
PSMT reports fiscal Q3 results today with short interest still elevated, insider selling unresolved, and peers trading in the opposite direction. Yesterday's article captured the core short rebuild story accurately,…
AZZ reports fiscal Q1 results today, and the data heading into the print tells a consistent story: bearish positioning has been building for weeks, options traders are more cautious than usual, and the broader building…
CHWY heads into its Q1 2026 earnings report on July 9 with short sellers pressing their bets and options traders tilting toward calls — a split that makes the positioning story genuinely interesting. The bearish…
Albertsons Companies heads into its July 10 earnings report with the Street broadly supportive but visibly lowering its sights, even as short sellers hold a meaningful position heading into the release. The analyst…
AEHR heads into its July 8 earnings report having lost nearly a third of its value in a single week — a collapse that makes the print one of the most consequential in the company's recent history. The stock fell 7.4%…
EPAC heads into its Q3 fiscal 2026 earnings print on July 8 with options traders positioned unusually bullishly — a sharp contrast to a week of broad industrial weakness. The most striking positioning signal is in the…
LEVI reports Q2 2026 results after the close today with the Street turning meaningfully more constructive — yet options traders are refusing to stand down. The analyst picture has shifted sharply in the final week…
Penguin Solutions heads into its July 7 earnings print having just jumped 10% in a single session — while the short base remains stubbornly large and analysts are scrambling to keep up. The stock closed at $67.71 on…
TFI International heads into its July 8 earnings release with a notable insider selling cluster at the top — and a stock that has shed 10% over the past month. The most striking signal ahead of the print is the CEO's…
BMNR heads into its July 10 earnings print with short sellers still accelerating — yet the options market is running the opposite direction. Since the previous ORTEX note on July 1, short interest has pushed further.…
Conagra Brands reports Q4 results on July 9 with the Street's most notable feature being a rare consensus — every analyst who has moved in the past six weeks has cut their target, and none have upgraded. The analyst…
ASX heads into its July 10 earnings print riding a 27% gain over the past month — and options traders are quietly adding more protection as the stock climbs. The clearest pre-earnings signal comes from the put/call…
DAL heads into its July 10 Q2 print with a wall of analyst upgrades at its back — and a stock that has already run past most of those revised targets. The revision wave has accelerated in the final days before the…
Banco de Chile reports on July 10 with the stock up 10% over the past month — yet the cost to borrow shares has quietly tripled since June, flagging a notable shift in how the lending market views the name ahead of the…
