QUALCOMM Incorporated
NASDAQQCOM 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 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%…
Snapshot as of 23 Jun 2026
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…
QUALCOMM enters the week ahead of its June 24 earnings with options traders the most defensive they have been in months — even as the stock retreats modestly from last week's highs. Options positioning tells the…
QUALCOMM has staged one of its sharpest weekly recoveries on record, up 27% to close at $248.82 — yet the analyst community, with most targets clustered between $150 and $200, is still pointing at a stock trading well…
QUALCOMM enters the week of May 18 in retreat — down 7% on the week and nearly 4% on Tuesday alone — yet the short-seller community that scrambled to cover after April's blowout earnings shows little sign of rebuilding…
QUALCOMM heads into mid-May having delivered one of its most explosive earnings reactions in years — and the data now shows short sellers scrambling to reduce exposure into a stock up more than 60% over the past…
QCOM enters the first week of May having just posted one of its biggest weekly gains in years — a 24% surge to $186.55 that has left short sellers nursing losses and options traders scrambling to reprice risk. The…
Why this matters — Three distinct ORTEX data streams have aligned on QCOM within five days. Short interest, cost to borrow, and options sentiment are all moving simultaneously — in competing directions — ahead of…
QCOM heads into its April 29 earnings report with the options market unusually bullish — yet short sellers have been quietly rebuilding positions against a stock that has just staged an 18% recovery. The options…
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