Cerebras Short Sellers Capped Rally for 2026's Biggest IPO $Cerebras Systems(CBRS)$ short sellers piled in as the stock of $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ 's newest rival more than doubled during its trading debut, capping gains for the semiconductor company that logged this year's biggest initial public offering. The stock initially jumped as much as 200% Thursday during its trading debut. Short sellers immediately moved to bet against the rally by selling borrowed shares they did not own. This activity totaled 6.95 million shares on the first day, accounting for about 21% of all trading volume according to market data published on May 14. Bearish investors pointed to a ma
Targeting $279: Can NVIDIA's Q1 Earnings Justify Wall Street's High Expectations? As $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ prepares to report its fiscal first-quarter 2027 results on May 20, 2026, Wall Street analysts maintain a nearly universal bullish stance. Driven by sustained demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure, major banks have aggressively raised their price targets in recent weeks. This robust optimism is clearly reflected in the stock's recent performance. NVIDIA shares recently extended a 20% rally over a seven-day period, climbing to as high as $236.47. The surge was primarily fueled by investors pouring capital into chipmakers that are profiting from massive investments in artificial intelligence. Cons
Nebius' 550% Rally Prompts Short Seller Exodus After Blowout Results $NEBIUS(NBIS)$ short sellers abandoned their bearish wagers after a blowout earnings results pushed the stock to a new all-time high, taking gains over the past year above 550% and raising the risk of a squeeze. Before noon Thursday, the daily share price gain stood at 10% after the company's financial results released a day earlier showed an explosive demand for AI-centric cloud services that sent its first quarter revenue climbing more than seven-fold to $399 million in the three months ended March 31. That exceeded the $391.6 million average estimate by analysts, according to Bloomberg consensus. Short volume, or the number of borrowed shares that were sold short m
Nvidia's Record-Breaking Rally Sends Options Dealers Scrambling to Hedge $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ jumped 3.8% Thursday morning, extending its record-breaking rally and sending options dealers scrambling to hedge amid what traders call a gamma squeeze. The AI chip behemoth's latest rally took gains over the past year to 74%. In Asia, its server assembly partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. delivered another blowout financial results, adding to evidence of relentless spending on AI hardware. Nvidia also announced a partnership with Ineffable Intelligence to co-design the infrastructure for large-scale reinforcement learning. That collaboration will be among the first to explore the upcoming NVIDIA Vera Rubin
Qualcomm Short Sellers Retreat as Squeeze Risk Mounts After 65% $Qualcomm(QCOM)$ short sellers took advantage of the stock's pullback Tuesday to buy back the shares they sold and close their positions after the chipmaker's 65% surge over the past two months raised the risk of a short squeeze. The short volume fell by almost half to 4.1 million shares Tuesday, exchange data tracked. That's about 10.6% of the shares that changed hands that day when the stock tumbled by more than 11%, its steepest slump in more than six years. Despite the share slump that day, Qualcomm still attracted a net fund inflow of $92.35 million on Tuesday, as block buy orders from institutional investors more than offset
Nvidia's Defining Moment: Which Supply Chain Players Will Get Swept Up in the Earnings Whirlwind? $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ is set to report its quarterly earnings after the market close on May 20. The market consensus anticipates revenue to reach approximately $78.7 billion, representing a 79% year-over-year increase and a 16% sequential growth, slightly surpassing the company's prior guidance of around $78 billion. Beyond its own fundamentals, these results will serve as a critical barometer for the entire AI supply chain, influencing market sentiment across the ecosystem. Here is a comprehensive breakdown of the key players powering the AI infrastructure behind Nvidia: Chip Manufacturing Chip manufacturing forms
Cisco's AI Networking Boom Is a Signal for Nvidia $Cisco(CSCO)$ 's latest earnings were more than a solid networking quarter. They showed that AI infrastructure spending is moving beyond GPUs into switches, optics, and scale-across networking. This matters for $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ because its networking business is now a core part of the AI factory stack. It also matters because Cisco is not only a competitor. Some Cisco AI networking products are powered by NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet switch silicon, including the Cisco N9100 Series, so part of Cisco's AI networking momentum is also a signal for Nvidia's ecosystem. Cisco
NBIS 26Q1 Earnings Review: Explosive AI Growth Fuels 16% Rally. Is This Just the Beginning? Against the backdrop of surging demand for AI infrastructure, $NEBIUS(NBIS)$ delivered a Q1 earnings report that clearly exceeded market expectations, with shares jumping as much as 16% intraday. The results not only confirmed that demand for AI neocloud services remains in a rapid expansion phase, but also eased prior market concerns around data center deployment, power expansion, and financing capacity. More importantly, Nebius is evolving from a GPU rental platform into a full-stack AI-native cloud infrastructure company spanning training, inference, agentic AI, and AI factories. With AI demand continuing to outpace supply, the company's reve
ARM Bulls Double Down as Smart Money Buys $30M Calls Amid the ongoing surge in AI infrastructure demand and continued expansion in ASIC and AI inference workloads, shares of $Arm Holdings(ARM)$ continued to rally on Wednesday, rising more than 6% intraday. Near the stock’s recent highs, the options market also saw a massive long-term bullish trade worth more than $30 million, signaling that institutional investors are continuing to bet on ARM's long-term AI story. The trade involved 5,000 contracts of the August 21, 2026 $170 Call, with total premium reaching approximately $30.95 million. The transaction was marked as a Cross trade, typically associated with institutional block activity. More importantly,