QUALCOMM Incorporated
NASDAQQUALCOMM has spent the past week doing something unusual: rallying hard while short interest climbs. The stock is up 7.9% on the week to $187.80, yet bearish positioning has risen in parallel — a tension that defines where the name sits right now. The short-side story is worth noting, but not overstating. Short interest climbed 10.8% over the past seven days to 3.4% of the free…
QCOM short interest surges 21.3% in one week to 4.6% of float, highest in 30 days, as stock rallies into June 24 earnings.
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Read on ORTEX →Sign up for premiumQUALCOMM has spent the past week doing something unusual: rallying hard while short interest climbs. The stock is up 7.9% on the week to $187.80, yet bearish positioning has risen in parallel — a tension that defines…
Snapshot as of 22 Sept 2026
QUALCOMM heads into the back half of August with a notable split between improving options sentiment and a Street that just finished cutting its targets sharply in the wake of last month's earnings miss. The clearest…
QUALCOMM has reported earnings and the market's verdict is brutal — the stock is down 14% over the past month and fell another 4.2% on Tuesday, with short sellers reversing the retreat that defined the pre-earnings…
QUALCOMM reports on July 29 with the Street's price targets well above where the stock is actually trading — a gap that makes Wednesday's print a direct referendum on whether the analyst community's post-June optimism…
QUALCOMM arrives at its July 29 earnings report in an unusual position: the stock has lost nearly a quarter of its value over the past month, yet short sellers have been cutting positions aggressively and the analyst…
QUALCOMM finds itself in a contradictory position entering July: a wave of analyst upgrades and sharply higher price targets arrived this week even as the stock extended its post-earnings slide, now down 26% over the…
QUALCOMM reported June 24 earnings and the market's verdict was swift: the stock dropped 8% on the day to $204.13, giving back most of the recovery that had been building since mid-June — and the short sellers who…
QUALCOMM heads into its June 24 earnings print with an unusual split: the stock has broken out higher while short sellers are quietly accelerating their bets against it. The stock closed at $226.11 on June 18, up 11.4%…
QUALCOMM has recovered 4.2% on the week to $214.07, reversing part of last week's steep 15% selloff — but the short position that was unwinding has quietly started rebuilding, and options traders remain more defensive…
QUALCOMM has shed 15% in a week to close at $205.42, yet the most striking feature of the selloff is that short sellers are not piling in — they are pulling back. The defensive lean in options is the clearest…
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