Index Rebalance and Special Situations Coverage, Quiddity Advisors

Anjana Amarasuriya

Index Rebalance and Special Situations Coverage

Quiddity Advisors

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Index Rebalance

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<li>The Nasdaq 100 index tracks the 100 largest names listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.</li>
<li>In this insight, we have presented our expectations for ADDs/DELs for the upcoming annual reconstitution in December 2026.</li>
<li>We expect threes changes at the December index rebal event and no intra-review changes before then.</li>
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The Nasdaq 100 index tracks the 100 largest names listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
In this insight, we have presented our expectations for ADDs/DELs for the upcoming annual reconstitution in December 2026.
We expect threes changes at the December index rebal event and no intra-review changes before then.


Quiddity Leaderboard Nasdaq100 Dec26 Rebal: 3 ADDs/DELs; US$42bn One-Way Flow

High Quality Stock Setups, Weekly Stock Bull Finder

Weekly Stock Bull Finder

High Quality Stock Setups

Finding high potential stock setups on quality companies

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>According to BeSpoke investment firm research, the top 10% of the most heavily shorted stocks are up an average of 36.3% so far this year.</li><li>This includes troubled retailer Bed Bath &amp; Beyond (BBBY) whose shares surged by more than 18% Thursday, a day after they missed a Feb. 1 interest payment and warned that it might file for bankruptcy within weeks.</li><li>Other stocks like online car dealer Carvana and any company which has anything remotely associated with artificial intelligence (AI) have seen similar spikes.</li></ul>

According to BeSpoke investment firm research, the top 10% of the most heavily shorted stocks are up an average of 36.3% so far this year.This includes troubled retailer Bed Bath &amp; Beyond (BBBY) whose shares surged by more than 18% Thursday, a day after they missed a Feb. 1 interest payment and warned that it might file for bankruptcy within weeks.Other stocks like online car dealer Carvana and any company which has anything remotely associated with artificial intelligence (AI) have seen similar spikes.

Market Intelligence, ORTEX

ORTEX Market Intel

Market Intelligence

Global Financial Data and Analytics Platform

ORTEX

ORTEX is a global financial data and analytics platform providing real-time securities lending and short interest data, index rebalance data, holdings and insider transactions, trading signals, corporate actions and news,  stock machine learning and factor scores and other analytics. The majority of the data are downloadable and accessible through APIs.

Equity Derivatives

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc / Equity Derivatives

<ul><li>Options markets sent conflicting signals this week.</li><li>Defensive put-buying dominated earnings plays, yet a handful of names saw call positioning hit 52-week extremes.</li><li>The week of July 27 produced more than 60 high-severity options pulses, with earnings catalysts driving the bulk of the volatility in PCR readings.</li></ul>

Options markets sent conflicting signals this week.Defensive put-buying dominated earnings plays, yet a handful of names saw call positioning hit 52-week extremes.The week of July 27 produced more than 60 high-severity options pulses, with earnings catalysts driving the bulk of the volatility in PCR readings.

Options Weekly: Put Walls and Bull Bets: Options Markets Split on Earnings Week

New Zealand Professional Investment Services Firm, Forsyth Barr

Forsyth Barr

New Zealand Professional Investment Services Firm

We are proud to be a New Zealand owned firm, with 21 offices throughout the country and over 300 employees. We assist personal, institutional and corporate clients providing a full range of investment services.

Forsyth Barr is a foundation New Zealand Exchange firm (NZX) and accredited market participant. We have been confirmed by the Financial Markets Authority as a Qualifying Financial Entity (QFE).

Research is the cornerstone of our advice. We have one of New Zealand's leading teams of analysts. Our global affiliations ensure comprehensive research coverage of all major investment markets.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Mainfreight’s (MFT) Annual Shareholders Meeting (ASM) trading update heralds the dramatic return to synchronised growth.</li><li>PBT for the first 16 weeks was up +78% on the prior year, driven by synchronised growth across all geographies and all products.</li><li>That said, with the earnings cycle now positively back in upgrade territory, and valuation levels by no means stretched, we reiterate an OUTPERFORM rating.</li></ul>

Mainfreight’s (MFT) Annual Shareholders Meeting (ASM) trading update heralds the dramatic return to synchronised growth.PBT for the first 16 weeks was up +78% on the prior year, driven by synchronised growth across all geographies and all products.That said, with the earnings cycle now positively back in upgrade territory, and valuation levels by no means stretched, we reiterate an OUTPERFORM rating.

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

Select Medical Holdings / Technical Analysis

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<li>We are starting to see some positive signals that suggest the lows for this bear market may have already been established, or that additional downside is limited from here.</li>
<li>We need to see downtrend reversals (get above 4030-4040 on SPX, $189 on IWM, and $115 on IWC) and for the NDX(QQQ) to break above $315, to get more constructive.</li>
<li>Positive signals include, among other things: the Financial Sector (XLF) and Broker-Dealers/Exchanges ETF (IAI) are reversing topside their 4-5-month downtrends.</li>
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We are starting to see some positive signals that suggest the lows for this bear market may have already been established, or that additional downside is limited from here.
We need to see downtrend reversals (get above 4030-4040 on SPX, $189 on IWM, and $115 on IWC) and for the NDX(QQQ) to break above $315, to get more constructive.
Positive signals include, among other things: the Financial Sector (XLF) and Broker-Dealers/Exchanges ETF (IAI) are reversing topside their 4-5-month downtrends.


Downgrading Utilities & Staples to Market Weight; Buy Ideas in Health Care & Trucking

United States

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. is an inter-regional and multi-regional motor carrier.  The Company primarily transports less-than-truckload shipments of general commodities, such as consumer goods, textiles, and capital goods.  Old Dominion serves regional markets throughout the United States.

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Quiddity Leaderboard Nasdaq100 Dec26 Rebal: 3 ADDs/DELs; US$42bn One-Way Flow

Moderna replacing WBD is the last expected intra-review change before December. The annual reconstitution should bring three more Nasdaq-100...

Anjana Amarasuriya

Weekly Stock Bullfinder - Week of 2/6

According to BeSpoke investment firm research, the top 10% of the most heavily shorted stocks are up an average of 36.3% so far this year.

Weekly Stock Bull Finder

Options Weekly: Put Walls and Bull Bets: Options Markets Split on Earnings Week

Options markets sent conflicting signals this week. Defensive put-buying dominated earnings plays, yet a handful of names saw call positioning hit...

ORTEX Market Intel

Mainfreight Boom

Mainfreight’s (MFT) Annual Shareholders Meeting (ASM) trading update heralds the dramatic return to synchronised growth. PBT for the first 16...

Forsyth Barr

Downgrading Utilities & Staples to Market Weight; Buy Ideas in Health Care & Trucking

Positive developments are popping up, such as bullish reversals of 4-5-month downtrends for Financials $XLF and Broker-Dealers/Exchanges $IAI ....

Vermilion Research

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