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Retail squeeze · 54 dossiers

Dossiers classified as Retail squeeze — 54 names, each with its thesis, invalidation trigger and catalyst calendar.

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ASTS AST SpaceMobile, Inc. fresh LOW Deployment-cadence leg goes dead: the 2026-08-24 close of $62.35 (-9.2%, per GuruFocus) erased the 08-21 reclaim and broke below the 08-20 intraday low of $62.89, with BlueBirds 14/15/16 still undated 15 days after "ready to ship shortly."… Retail squeeze · Space economy catalyst · IONQ IonQ, Inc. fresh LOW Broken gov-capital quantum leg, now publicly capitulated: seven-plus down weeks, an inverse-ETF complex up to +108%, and Cramer warning it off air on 2026-07-23. Washed out but not based, heading into a binary Q2 print (est. 2026-08-05 to… Retail squeeze · Quantum computing catalyst · MSTR Strategy Inc fresh LOW Eighth straight week with no bitcoin bought: the 2026-08-24 8-K shows ~$2.01B of common sold at an average near $109.88 into the rally, with 100% routed to STRC buybacks, a $5.1B USD Reserve and a new $1.59B "USD Cash" pool. Credit… Retail squeeze · Crypto exchanges & financials catalyst · QBTS D-Wave Quantum Inc. fresh LOW Coverage supply keeps producing one-day rallies that do not hold: BMO's 2026-08-21 initiation at $35 closed shares $20.39 (+8.46%) on no company release, and 2026-08-24 gave it all back at $18.68 (-8.39%), also on no release. Three named… Retail squeeze · Quantum computing catalyst · QUBT Quantum Computing Inc. fresh LOW The 2026-08-21 group bounce round-tripped in one session — the 2026-08-24 close of $8.24 gave back the move to $8.92, with IonQ, Rigetti and D-Wave all off ~8.5% the same day. Price sits two cents above the $8.22 shelf, under a 50-day at… Retail squeeze · Quantum computing catalyst · RGTI Rigetti Computing, Inc. fresh LOW Quantum pure-play basket is in outright hype-cycle deflation: RGTI ~$14.19 (2026-07-17), -27% MoM, and the $14 shelf that held the May CHIPS-stake gap and the June executive-order pop has broken. Inverse quantum ETFs printing +108% and the… Retail squeeze · Quantum computing catalyst · PURR Hyperliquid Strategies Inc fresh LOW The gamma-squeeze/index leg is over: PURR is -42% from its 6/1 high of $11.62 to $6.68 (7/17), through the $7.70 shelf, and now trades at roughly 0.78x the value of its 17.6M HYPE stack — a treasury premium that has flipped to a discount,… Retail squeeze · Crypto exchanges & financials catalyst · BULL Webull Corporation MEDIUM June dormant-to-leader flip is confirming: the ~$7.52 breakout resolved up on the 2026-07-21 surge, Rosenblatt lifted its target to $13 (2026-07-16), and June ops printed 28.2M users / $800M net deposits. Theme accelerating; read is a… Retail squeeze · Crypto exchanges & financials · Fintech & consumer credit catalyst · CLOV Clover Health Investments, Corp. MEDIUM Q2 (2026-08-05) resolved the binary upward — revenue $743.2M +56%, adj EBITDA $41M, FY guide lifted on every line to $2.92–3.00B revenue and $20–35M GAAP net income — but the 52-week high of $5.41 was sold to a $4.60 close on 2026-08-14… Retail squeeze · Managed care & health services · Binary-catalyst biotech analysed · HTZ Hertz Global Holdings, Inc MEDIUM The 2026-08-06 Q2 beat re-lit a squeeze the index deletion had just flushed: adjusted corporate EBITDA $81M cleared the top of a $50–80M guide, GAAP swung to +$64M, and the stock ran roughly 50% in two sessions amid 73.85%-of-float short… Retail squeeze · Squeeze & momentum setups · EV & autonomous mobility catalyst · JRSH Jerash Holdings (US), Inc. MEDIUM Sourcing-migration story now two-for-two on guidance: Q1 FY2027 revenue $50.23M (+26.7% YoY) beat consensus and the company's own guide on 2026-08-10, Q2 guided $49–51M vs $47.85M, DA Davidson to $6 on 2026-08-11. Since then the… Retail squeeze · Consumer discretionary rotation · Small-cap value rotation catalyst · PNRG PrimeEnergy Resources Corporation MEDIUM Geopolitical crude bid re-fired after the 2026-07-08 US strikes and Hormuz blockade — WTI back to ~$80 from $68.86, PNRG +8.9% MTD to $186.51 and above the 200-day. Structurally better than June: GCX in-service flipped Waha gas positive,… Retail squeeze · Oil, energy & geopolitical · Small-cap value rotation catalyst · ASST Strive, Inc. LOW Treasury-premium narrative still inverted: the 2026-08-10 Q2 print booked a $257.6M loss, 94.1% mark-to-market, against a $94,761 average cost versus the $64,812 Strive itself paid in early August. Buying restarted (147 BTC, 08-03 to… Retail squeeze · Crypto exchanges & financials catalyst · BAND Bandwidth Inc. LOW Late-stage small-cap CPaaS squeeze: +360% YoY into the mid-$70s, ~5% below the $79.08 high, with Citizens ($86, 2026-07-20). Riley ($85) both lifting targets in July. A confirmed Q2 print on 2026-07-29 is a binary two trading days out —… Retail squeeze · GPU cloud & neoclouds · AI datacenter infrastructure catalyst · BB BlackBerry Limited LOW Q1 FY27 gave the pivot real numbers (QNX $72.3M vs the $60-64M guide, FY27 raised to $594-621M), but the parabola broke: after a $13.59 high the stock fell ~37% to ~$8.54 on a meme unwind plus insider selling. Narrative maturing, price… Retail squeeze · AI enterprise software · Cybersecurity analysed · CLFD Clearfield, Inc. LOW The May earnings-miss squeeze has fully round-tripped to a dead tape in the mid-$30s, below the ~$36 gap base, with the retail-sentiment narrative spent. The sole live driver is the 2026-08-05 fiscal-Q3 print — guided to a sharp sequential… Retail squeeze · Networking & optical · AI datacenter infrastructure analysed · CTRN Citi Trends, Inc. LOW Sales were pre-released on 2026-08-10 ($211.6M, comps +10.5%), so the 2026-08-25 print is now a pure margin-and-guidance binary. Price faded from $73.91 (08-14) to $71.71 (08-21) with RSI back to 55.6 and no new high above $76.18 — the… Retail squeeze · Consumer discretionary rotation · Biofuels & low-carbon fuels catalyst · DNUT Krispy Kreme, Inc. LOW Attention returned before the fundamentals changed: BofA lifted its target to $4.90 on 2026-08-10 and the Pokémon collection hit shops 2026-08-18, carrying the close from $3.33 (08-14) to $3.59 (08-21) with RSI(14) at 69.9. The… Retail squeeze · Consumer discretionary rotation · M&A & special situations catalyst · DXYZ Destiny Tech100 Inc. LOW Scarcity premium re-underwritten on Anthropic, not SpaceX: DXYZ ran $22.51 (2026-07-28) to $34.43 (2026-08-21), back above the last reported $24.56 NAV (2026-03-31), on Anthropic's June S-1 and $65B July run rate. RSI 89.6, the $1B ATM is… Retail squeeze · AI datacenter infrastructure · Space economy catalyst · FCEL FuelCell Energy, Inc. LOW Street targets re-rated up to the price rather than the reverse: average PT $22.83 across 8 analysts vs the 2026-08-07 close of $20.43, after B. Riley $13→$32 (6/29) and UBS $22→$27 (7/14). The AI-power bid still works (7/30 Microsoft… Retail squeeze · AI datacenter infrastructure · Industrial power & grid catalyst · GRPN Groupon, Inc. LOW The prior $20 break condition registered on the 2026-08-21 weekly close of $19.59, the second shelf lost in eight sessions after $22 went on 2026-08-14. RSI(14) at 4.6 with the reported short base UP to 13.73M shares — it built into the… Retail squeeze · Squeeze & momentum setups · Consumer discretionary rotation catalyst · HELP Cybin Inc. fresh LOW Post-dilution CNS microcap re-firing with the psychedelic cohort (ATAI, CMPS all moving 2026-07-16) after a June social-velocity blowoff and a 10.3M-share secondary at $4.85. Both covering shops cut targets in July while holding Buy. No… Retail squeeze · Precision biotech & therapeutics analysed · HIMS Hims & Hers Health, Inc. LOW GLP-1 reaccel gets marked to market on 2026-08-10: guide $680-700M (+25-28%) vs Q1's +4%, street at $698.9M. Since the last note the FTC/CA/UT sued (2026-07-29, N.D. Cal.), BofA cut $37 to $30, and Amazon ($50/mo Medicare GLP-1,… Retail squeeze · Managed care & health services · Precision biotech & therapeutics analysed · INHD Inno Holdings Inc. LOW The frozen tape resolved against the story: T12 lifted 2026-07-31 at noon ET and the reopen has been one-way — $8.46 on 2026-08-14 (-21.96% that session, RSI 13.8) versus the $39.49 halt print. The June AI-agent narrative is broken, a $60M… Retail squeeze · Squeeze & momentum setups · AI datacenter infrastructure catalyst · JACK Jack In The Box Inc. LOW June's move was a float mechanic — Russell Microcap inclusion (effective 2026-06-30) into a 40%-short float drove $8.92 to $18.13, and it is unwinding ($14.98 on 2026-07-17, -7.76%). SSS is genuinely inflecting (-6.7% → -3.8%), but price… Retail squeeze · Squeeze & momentum setups · Consumer discretionary rotation catalyst · JWEL Jowell Global Ltd. LOW Low-float China e-commerce microcap that repriced +106% intraday on 2026-08-10 with no filing behind it; the leg being bought is float scarcity (2.38M shares out, $7.3M market cap) plus a 0.04x sales optic. Nothing on the calendar resolves… Retail squeeze · Consumer discretionary rotation · Semi foundry & equipment analysed · KSS Kohls Corporation LOW Squeeze leg has stalled: Morgan Stanley's 2026-07-06 Underweight/$15 reinit broke the one-way upgrade cluster and knocked the stock -5.9% on 07-08. Price ~$17.18 still holds above the 50- and 200-day, but with the sell-side now two-sided… Retail squeeze · Consumer discretionary rotation · Squeeze & momentum setups catalyst · LUNR Intuitive Machines, Inc. fresh LOW The June 30 NASA Moon BASE award ($148.3M Nova-C) bought exactly one green session before the stock broke: seven straight down days into 2026-07-13 for -24.5%, -36.5% on the month, $13.80 on 2026-07-18 versus a $38.55 May high. A live… Retail squeeze · Space economy catalyst · MAN ManpowerGroup LOW Post-squeeze leg extended rather than filled: the $46 gap-fill break flagged in July never printed and MAN closed 2026-08-14 at $58.30, 1.3% off a 52-week high, +129.7% in 3 months. Cyclical staffing inflection confirmed by the 2026-08-07… Retail squeeze · Cyclical industrials · Managed care & health services catalyst · MNPR Monopar Therapeutics Inc. LOW New 52-week high at $123.84 printed and sold — the 2026-08-21 close was $107.72, 13.0% under it, RSI 46.0, on no company news. The rolling NDA clock started 2026-07-22 is live but still undated, and the sell-side finished repricing in… Retail squeeze · Rare disease & gene therapy · Squeeze & momentum setups analysed · MRAM Everspin Technologies, Inc. LOW Sympathy bid off the Micron-led memory supercycle and Russell 2000 inclusion floored the post-parabola markdown in the low-$20s, but the ~2026-07-28 Q2 print is now the binary: Everspin must show a non-casino datacenter/AI design win or… Retail squeeze · AI chips & memory · Squeeze & momentum setups analysed · NUTX Nutex Health Inc. LOW Re-rating leg has stalled: NUTX closed $162.98 on 2026-07-17 after five straight down days, ~20% off the $204.00 high, giving back the June breakout that B. Riley's 2026-06-26 Buy/$290 initiation topped out. A $55.0M true-up of 18,950… Retail squeeze · Managed care & health services · Squeeze & momentum setups catalyst · ONDS Ondas Inc. LOW Q2 (2026-08-13) beat on revenue — $83.772M vs $67.973M — and missed on EPS at $(0.19) vs $(0.05); stock fell 7%. Section 232 drone tariffs signed the same day (effective 2026-09-03) rallied the whole basket, and ONDS still closed… Retail squeeze · Defense & aerospace catalyst · OPEN Opendoor Technologies Inc fresh LOW Early-July retail squeeze is broken: OPEN lost the $4.88 insider shelf and $4.50 base, fell ~12% to $3.88 on 2026-07-24 on a technical breakdown plus fresh housing weakness, into an Aug 4 Q2 print. A rolled-over meme trading into an… Retail squeeze · Housing, homebuilders & proptech analysed · OPI Office Properties Income Trust Common shares of beneficial interest LOW First post-reorg print landed 2026-08-05: 77.9% leased, $1.707B debt, the book equity, no dividend. The binary passed without breaking the tape — The narrative has matured from deleveraging re-rate into asset-sale arithmetic with insider… Retail squeeze · M&A & special situations · Housing, homebuilders & proptech analysed · OUST Ouster, Inc. LOW Squeeze leg broke: +43% in four sessions to a $63.79 high, then management priced 3.62M shares at $55.22 (~8% discount) and closed ~$191.9M net on 2026-07-06. Price round-tripped to $37.04, under the 20- and 50-day and under the $49… Retail squeeze · Physical AI & robotics · Defense & aerospace analysed · PCT PureCycle Technologies, Inc. LOW Post-dilution repair story: the June 10–15 raise (~$145M equity + $287.5M 4.75% converts, ~$11.08 conv) roughly halved the stock to ~$8 while the commercial ramp (Q1 record 8.4M-lb output, +161% revenue) held. The 2026-07-15 Mitsui/RM… Retail squeeze · Squeeze & momentum setups · Critical materials & rare earths catalyst · PLUG Plug Power, Inc. LOW The +475% hydrogen-comeback squeeze has broken: the $3.12 Q1 gap and the 50-day both failed, price is ~$2.17 (-20% in 30d), and Susquehanna cut its target $3.75 → $2.50 on 2026-07-10. The June 30 NY Gateway close resolved as a restructure… Retail squeeze · Solar & clean energy · Industrial power & grid analysed · QUIK QuickLogic Corporation LOW The eFPGA/defense royalty squeeze has fully unwound: QUIK is ~$13, roughly 47% below the $24.33 June high, and the $18 shelf broke exactly as the Russell inclusion passed. July's post-quantum IP announcement drew no bid — good news into no… Retail squeeze · AI chips & memory · Quantum computing catalyst · RDW Redwire Corporation LOW Post-SpaceX-IPO deflation broke RDW to a 2026-07-18 low near $8.51 (~67% off the 5/28 record). A relief bounce on Huntsville/Indiana facility news and $41.5M of H1 Stalker drone orders keeps running into a ~$850M dilution ceiling: the… Retail squeeze · Space economy catalyst · RFAI RF Acquisition Corp II fresh LOW Near-total redemption — 3,956,323 of 3,998,108 public shares, 98.95% — left almost no tradable float into the 2026-08-19 Nanyang Biologics approval, and RFAI ran +524.3% on the week to close $58.00. The leg being bought is a mechanical… Retail squeeze · M&A & special situations analysed · RH LOW Squeeze leg now ratified by the sell side — TD Cowen $220 (2026-08-08) and Wells Fargo $225 (2026-08-11) against B of A's reinstated Underperform $156 (2026-08-03) — and it resolves into the 2026-09-10 Q2 print with ~56.7% of float still… Retail squeeze · Consumer discretionary rotation · Squeeze & momentum setups catalyst · SATL Satellogic Inc. LOW The mania leg broke in July — the $6.33 shelf and the $4.97 range low both went — and the 2026-08-05 Q2 print handed the name a different story: revenue $15.9M (+259% YoY) vs $9.6M consensus, plus the first positive operating income and… Retail squeeze · Space economy catalyst · SG Sweetgreen, Inc. LOW The turnaround narrative was retracted by management on 2026-08-06 and repriced by eight desks into a $5.00–$8.50 target band. What has run since — $6.28 on 2026-08-14 to $6.99 on 2026-08-21 — is a ~24.5%-shorted float drifting up in a… Retail squeeze · Consumer discretionary rotation · Squeeze & momentum setups catalyst · SIDU Sidus Space, Inc. LOW Q2 (2026-08-14) cleared the calendar: revenue $583,096, -54% YoY, against $166.5M cash and no term debt. The SpaceX-proxy leg died when SPCX listed 2026-06-12 and the 2026-06-26 Russell add faded; what remains is a cash-heavy micro-cap… Retail squeeze · Space economy catalyst · SLS SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc. LOW Cancer-vaccine sector re-rate after Merck/Moderna's 2026-08-19 Phase 3 win carried SLS to a 52-week closing high of $15.46 on 2026-08-21 (+15.4% on the session, RSI 78.7) with no SELLAS data of its own; REGAL's last published count is… Retail squeeze · Oncology & immunology · Binary-catalyst biotech catalyst · SMCI Super Micro Computer, Inc. LOW Dilution leg has broken the story: the $7B raise cleared at $27.50 on June 11 and spot is $24.18, with a live $2B ATM as forward supply. DDR contract prices +32% QoQ crush a business guiding 8.2–8.4% gross margin. Falling knife under all… Retail squeeze · AI datacenter infrastructure · AI chips & memory catalyst · TDUP ThredUp Inc. LOW Tariff/de-minimis "secondhand wins" narrative broke on the 2026-08-05 Q2 print: revenue beat at $90.8M but FY2026 guidance was cut to $344.4–348.4M and Q3/Q4 guided below consensus. Price round-tripped to $3.07 on 2026-08-14, -74.6% from… Retail squeeze · Consumer discretionary rotation · Cyclical industrials analysed · TORO Toro Corp. LOW Panagiotidis shipping shell (NOT lawnmower TTC) ran 1.93→8.50 on a sub-NAV/special-dividend story that is now fully paid out and closed. Six weeks of dead tape since the 2026-06-05 payout ($3.8M cash + 5,707,246 NEW shares); on a true… Retail squeeze · Freight & logistics · M&A & special situations catalyst · VERU Veru Inc. LOW The Novo squeeze is fully round-tripped and the funding answer arrived on 2026-07-02: a $21.8M at-the-market program via Oppenheimer/Canaccord. At $2.42 (07-15) that is ~9M shares against ~16M outstanding — the company will now sell stock… Retail squeeze · Precision biotech & therapeutics · Small-cap value rotation analysed · XHG XChange TEC.INC LOW Sub-$1 China insurance ADS re-rated ~4x in two sessions on a 2026-08-13 non-binding LOI to acquire HK AI insurtech First Cycle — terms undisclosed, subject to definitive agreements. The leg being bought is an AI-insurance pivot; the FY2025… Retail squeeze · M&A & special situations analysed · XOS Xos, Inc. LOW First-ever U.S. Air Force award (prototype OTA for the Xos Hub mobile BESS, announced 2026-08-17, terms not disclosed) took the stock ~100% on 2026-08-18 and put a defense-pivot narrative on a going-concern EV maker that just missed Q2… Retail squeeze · Defense & aerospace · EV & autonomous mobility analysed · YAAS Youxin Technology Ltd LOW July's re-ignition failed: the 2026-07-14 RiverBit term sheet and 2026-07-15 Guangzhou AI agreement produced no higher low, and the response was a second reverse split (1-for-5, effective 2026-07-30). Two splits inside ten months now… Retail squeeze · Semi foundry & equipment · Crypto exchanges & financials analysed · ZENA ZenaTech, Inc. LOW Section 232 drone tariffs signed 2026-08-13 and effective 2026-09-03 re-rated the UAS cohort; ZENA is the sub-$3, issuance-funded expression, closing 2026-08-14 at $2.14 with RSI(14) 84.7 and still 68.0% under the $6.69 52-week high.… Retail squeeze · Defense & aerospace · Cyclical industrials catalyst ·