Walmart Inc.
NASDAQWalmart climbs back toward $110 this week with the short book continuing to unwind and analysts holding constructive despite trimmed targets from the August earnings drop. The short position has now erased most of what built during the early-September spike. As flagged in last week's note, shorts piled in aggressively around September 9-10, briefly pushing estimated SI toward the…
WMT short interest surges 27% week-on-week to 1.06% of free float, highest since early July, as cost to borrow remains negligible at 0.48%.
Walmart climbs back toward $110 this week with the short book continuing to unwind and analysts holding constructive despite trimmed targets from the August earnings drop. The short position has now erased most of what…
Walmart enters the back half of September with its short rebuild stalling and options traders quietly rotating away from the defensive posture that dominated post-earnings trading. The short interest story has changed…
Snapshot as of 24 Sept 2026
Walmart is sending conflicting signals post-earnings. Options traders are the most bullish in a year. Short sellers and the borrow market are heading in the same direction — down. The gap between those two reads is the…
Walmart is finding its footing after last week's 9.3% post-earnings collapse, with the most striking development this week coming not from short sellers but from options traders, who have swung from maximum…
Walmart heads into its August 20 Q2 earnings print at $115.20 with the post-breakout gains intact — and options traders registering their most defensive posture of the past month. The options signal is the sharpest…
Walmart arrives at its August 20 Q2 print with the stock finally above the range that defined the past two months — but hedging demand hasn't relented. The price action is the clearest development since last week's…
Walmart has broken modestly above the $109–$112 band that defined the past two months, but options traders are signalling the most defensive positioning of the recent period — and earnings are eight days away. The…
Walmart clawed back 1.6% this week to close at $111.21, recovering from the multi-month low documented in last week's note — but the recovery's character matters as much as its size. The prior article established that…
Walmart has given back its recent gains, closing Tuesday at $110.39 — down 2.9% on the week and now sitting almost exactly where the July 1 trough was. The recovery arc that looked like it was building through mid-July…
Walmart has added a fraction more ground since last week's recovery note, but the pace of repair has slowed, and the gap back to pre-earnings levels remains wide enough to keep the August 20 print as the dominant…
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