The Home Depot, Inc.
NYSEHome Depot is down 13% in a month, trading at $308.74, yet options traders are now the most call-heavy they have been all year — a divergence between price action and positioning that has sharpened further since yesterday's ORTEX note. Options sentiment is the clearest signal this week. The put/call ratio has slipped to 0.80, more than two standard deviations below its 20-day average…
HD cost to borrow surges to 0.56% — up 141% over one week, signaling tightening borrow supply despite low short interest of 1.1% of float.
Home Depot is down 13% in a month, trading at $308.74, yet options traders are now the most call-heavy they have been all year — a divergence between price action and positioning that has sharpened further since…
Why this matters: Home Depot has dropped 12.9% in a month. Yet options traders are now the most bullish they've been in weeks. That divergence — price falling, sentiment shifting — is the signal worth watching. The…
Snapshot as of 20 Sept 2026
Home Depot closes out the week at $319.77, down another 5.4% — the drift that began after the Q2 earnings print has accelerated, and the gap between price and analyst expectations is now wider than at any point this…
Home Depot enters the final week of August down 1.6% on the week and nearly 4% lower over the past month — the Q2 beat has faded into the background, and the stock at $330.19 is now trading further below analyst…
Home Depot reported Q2 results on August 18 and the stock has largely absorbed the print without drama, leaving the post-earnings analyst flurry as the most interesting story this week. The analyst response to the Q2…
Home Depot heads into its August 18 earnings report having given back ground since the previous note — the stock closed Friday at $338.86, down 4.7% on the week and notably below the $354.48 level flagged just three…
Home Depot enters its August 18 earnings report with the stock at $354.48 — up 1.8% on the week and 3.3% over the past month — while options traders have quietly shifted toward the most defensive positioning in nearly…
Home Depot has added another $11 this week, closing at $344.47 on Tuesday — and the story has shifted meaningfully since last week's note, which flagged a bullish options setup against a still-weak price trend. The…
Home Depot slipped 3.7% this week to $324.45, reversing part of last week's breakout — and the options market has flipped sharply, moving from neutral back toward defensive territory in a matter of days. The clearest…
Home Depot enters the first full week of June in a holding pattern — the post-Q1 repricing is largely digested, short sellers are not pressing their case, and options traders remain the most bullish they have been all…
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