FAST is a fastener and industrial supply distributor with a $59 billion market cap, and it is drawing notably more short attention this week: short interest has jumped 16.5% in seven days to 38.6 million shares, the largest weekly increase in at least 12 months, putting the short position at 3.4% of the free float. That move is worth pausing on. A 16.5% week-on-week rise is roughly…
FAST put/call ratio plummets to 0.30, lowest in 52 weeks, as bullish options sentiment surges. PCR z-score sits at -4.26, signaling extreme call dominance versus the 20-day mean of 1.10.
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FAST is a fastener and industrial supply distributor with a $59 billion market cap, and it is drawing notably more short attention this week: short interest has jumped 16.5% in seven days to 38.6 million shares, the…
FAST enters the second half of August with an unusual divergence: options traders just turned their most bullish in months, even as short sellers rebuild positions at the fastest pace in more than a year. The sharpest…
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