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These stocks have some of Wall Street’s lowest short interest

[short sale] abluecup Stocks including Apple, Alphabet, Exxon Mobil, and JPMorgan are among the companies with relatively low short interest, according to a screen of stocks with market capitalizations above $2B. The screen includes stocks with short interest between 1% and 2% of shares outstanding, highlighting companies with relatively limited bearish positioning. Apple (AAPL [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AAPL]) has the lowest short interest in the screen at 1.00%, followed by Alphabet (GOOG [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/GOOG]) and InnIO (INIO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/INIO]) at 1.01% each. Delek Logistics (DKL [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/DKL]), Exxon Mobil (XOM [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/XOM]), Chevron (CVX [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/CVX]), and Mastercard (MA [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/MA]) have short interest of around 1.02%-1.04%. The list also features several major financial companies, including Morgan Stanley (MS [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/MS]), Bank of New York Mellon (BK), and JPMorgan Chase (JPM [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/JPM]), while other sectors represented include energy, industrials, consumer goods, healthcare, and technology. HERE’S THE FULL LIST: * Apple (AAPL [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AAPL]) — 1.00% * Alphabet (GOOG [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/GOOG]) — 1.01% * InnIO (INIO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/INIO]) — 1.01% * Delek Logistics (DKL [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/DKL]) — 1.02% * Exxon Mobil (XOM [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/XOM]) — 1.04% * Chevron (CVX [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/CVX]) — 1.04% * Mastercard (MA [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/MA]) — 1.04% * Bausch + Lomb (BLCO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/BLCO]) — 1.06% * General Dynamics (GD [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/GD]) — 1.07% * Chubb (CB [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/CB]) — 1.08% * Vipshop Holdings (VIPS [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/VIPS]) — 1.08% * Leonardo DRS (DRS [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/DRS]) — 1.08% * Global Business Travel Group (GBTG [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/GBTG]) — 1.09% * Morgan Stanley (MS [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/MS]) — 1.10% * AngloGold Ashanti (AU [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/AU]) — 1.10% * Bank of New York Mellon (BK) — 1.10% * McGraw Hill (MHH [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/MHH]) — 1.11% * JPMorgan Chase (JPM [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/JPM]) — 1.11% * Coca-Cola (KO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/KO]) — 1.11% * Lincoln National (LNC [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/LNC]) — 1.12% * Philip Morris International (PM [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/PM]) — 1.12% * Neutron (LIME [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/LIME]) — 1.13% * Johnson & Johnson (JNJ [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/JNJ]) — 1.14% * Republic Services (RSG [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/RSG]) — 1.14% * Melco Resorts & Entertainment (MLCO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/MLCO]) — 1.15% * Parker-Hannifin (PH [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/PH]) — 1.15% * Eli Lilly (LLY [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/LLY]) — 1.15% * Hagerty (HGTY [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/HGTY]) — 1.16% * CNA Financial (CNA [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/CNA]) — 1.17% * Rush Enterprises (RUSHB [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/RUSHB]) — 1.18% Broad-market ETFs with exposure to several stocks on the list include VTI, ITOT, SCHB, SPTM, SPY, IVV and VOO. MORE ON SEEKING ALPHA * Timing The AI Boom To Bust [https://seekingalpha.com/article/4934626-timing-ai-boom-to-bust] * Diverging Fortunes For Older And Younger Teens In U.S. Summer Job Market [https://seekingalpha.com/article/4934611-diverging-fortunes-older-younger-teens-us-summer-job-market] * Hyperscalers Are 'All In' On Singularity, And OpenAI's Astra Gives Hope [https://seekingalpha.com/article/4934566-hyperscalers-are-all-in-on-singularity-and-openais-astra-gives-hope] * Markets pricing in 'near-perfect landing' with no room for error - Deutsche Bank [https://seekingalpha.com/news/4630678-markets-pricing-in-near-per

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Universal Corp (UVV) Stock Is Falling Today: What’s Behind the Drop, and Are Other Tobacco Stocks Plummeting Today?

Quick Read UVV cratered 6%, breaking below its 52-week low after Q1 EPS missed by $0.45 and Tobacco Operations operating income collapsed 90%. While MO and PM slipped modestly on strong recent earnings, TPB surged 16% after Modern Oral pouch revenue jumped 149%. UVV's 56-year dividend streak yields 6%, anchoring the bull case as management expects tobacco shipments to rebound in H2 FY27. Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Universal didn't make the cut. Grab the names FREE today. Shares of Universal (NYSE:UVV) are trading at $47.75, down 6.08% in the current session and off 3.51% over the past week. The slide follows a badly missed fiscal Q1 earnings report and pushes the leaf-tobacco merchant below its 52-week low of $47.66, breaking a support level that had held for months.Summit Art Creations / Shutterstock.com Earnings Miss Sparks a Fresh Leg Lower Universal reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 results after the close on August 5, 2026, and the numbers were ugly. Adjusted EPS came in at -$0.20, missing the $0.25 consensus. Revenue of $523.78 million came in short of the $587.00 million estimate, a decline of 11.79% year over year. The damage was concentrated in the core Tobacco Operations segment, where revenue fell 13% year over year to $437.13 million and operating income collapsed 90% to $3.47 million. Tobacco volumes were down 9% and prices down 6%, reflecting oversupply in flue-cured and burley markets. The Ingredients segment fared no better, with revenue of $86.65 million and a segment operating loss driven by weak CPG demand and elevated fixed costs at the expanded Lancaster facility. Gross margin compressed 330 basis points to 15.9%, and operating income fell 93.23% to $2.30 million. CEO Preston Wigner acknowledged the environment, saying "Purchasing activity was slower as we and our customers evaluated green tobacco price trends amid oversupply conditions in flue-cured and burley markets." This is the fourth consecutive quarterly disappointment, following a -142.59% EPS miss in Q4 FY26 that included a $41.06 million goodwill impairment. Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Universal didn't make the cut. Grab the names FREE today. The Drop Is a Universal-Specific Story Peer action confirms this is a Universal-specific problem. The table below shows today's move alongside the past week for the group. Ticker Company Today Past Week Market Cap / Yield UVV Universal -6.08% -3.51% $1.27B / 6.43% MO Altria -1.75% +0.03% $114B / 6.26% PM Philip Morris -0.69% -0.66% $295B / 3.13% TPB Turning Point Brands +2.74% +16.42% $1.68B / 0.36% Story Continues Altria and Philip Morris are trading only modestly lower, and both reported clean beats in their most recent quarters, with Philip Morris raising its FY26 EPS guide to $8.26 to $8.41 on IQOS and ZYN strength. Turning Point Brands is the outlier in the other direction, up 16.42% on the week after its Q2 2026 earnings report on August 4 showed Modern Oral pouch revenue up 149%. The S&P 500 rose 3.51% over the same week, underscoring that UVV's slide is a single-name story tied to leaf-tobacco oversupply and Universal's ingredients drag. What to Watch Next The bull case still rests on the dividend and shipment timing. Universal declared its next $0.83 quarterly payout with a November 2, 2026 payment date, extending the streak to 56 consecutive years and pushing the yield to 6.43%. Management expects tobacco shipments to weight to the second half of FY27. Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Universal didn't make the cut. Grab the names FREE today. Contact editorial@247wallst.com for any questions or corrections. View Comments

Can Altria's Smoke-Free Push Finally Drive Long-Term Growth?

Altria Group, Inc.'s MO smoke-free strategy is increasingly centered on nicotine pouches, with on! PLUS emerging as a key part of that effort. In the second quarter of 2026, Helix expanded on! PLUS to about 120,000 stores, covering roughly 90% of nicotine product volume. The rollout is being supported by a broader retail program and additional line extensions. The underlying category is also expanding. In the second quarter, the nicotine pouch category grew 8.1 share points and represented nearly 60% of the total oral tobacco category. For on!, reported shipment volume was 49.9 million cans, down 4.2% year over year, although first-half shipment volume rose 5.1%. The company attributed the second-quarter comparison partly to trade inventory movements and promotional activity in the prior-year period. Retail performance offered another measure of the rollout. On! retail share reached 8.6% in the second quarter, up 0.8 percentage points sequentially and 0.3 percentage points from a year earlier, with the gain driven by on! PLUS. The next phase involves expanding product choice. 12-milligram on! PLUS shipments resumed in three states during the quarter, with national expansion planned for the third quarter. Additional flavors across 6-milligram, 9-milligram and 12-milligram strengths, starting with Blueberry Mint and Mango Pineapple, are planned for the fourth quarter. Together, these developments show a smoke-free strategy built around wider distribution, a growing nicotine pouch category and a broader on! PLUS offering. MO's Nicotine Pouch Strategy Evolves Alongside PM and TPB Philip Morris International Inc. PM is also expanding its smoke-free portfolio through nicotine pouches, with ZYN now available in 60 markets. In the second quarter of 2026, Philip Morris reported ZYN shipments rose 1.8% to 2.9 billion pouches, while new 9mg and 11mg ZYN ULTRA variants began shipping. Philip Morris plans additional 1.5mg and 8mg dry variants in the third quarter. Turning Point Brands, Inc. TPB is also expanding its smoke-free portfolio through nicotine pouches, with Modern Oral net sales up 128% year over year to $68.4 million in the second quarter of 2026. While Modern Oral accounted for 48% of total revenues, up from 26% a year earlier, Turning Point Brands expanded retail distribution for FRE and ALP. Turning Point Brands expects chain-store count to increase 70% year over year by year-end. Altria's Price Performance, Valuation & Estimates Shares of Altria have fallen 0.4% in the past three months against the industry's growth of 5.1%. Story Continues Zacks Investment Research Image Source: Zacks Investment Research From a valuation standpoint, MO trades at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 11.81X, down from the industry's average of 15.55X.Zacks Investment Research Image Source: Zacks Investment Research The Zacks Consensus Estimate for MO's 2026 and 2027 earnings implies year-over-year growth of 4.8% and 3.2%, respectively.Zacks Investment Research Image Source: Zacks Investment Research Altria currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Altria Group, Inc. (MO) : Free Stock Analysis Report Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) : Free Stock Analysis Report Turning Point Brands, Inc. (TPB) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research (zacks.com). Zacks Investment Research View Comments

Can Turning Point Brands Defend a "Dr. Pepper"‑Size Share After the FDA's Nicotine Pouch Decision?

Key Points Turning Point Brands now gets over 40% of its sales from fast-growing nicotine pouches. Upcoming earnings will show if TPB can defend a niche share as big tobacco crowds into pouches. 10 stocks we like better than Turning Point Brands › Nicotine pouches are reshaping the tobacco alternative landscape, with Turning Point Brands (NYSE: TPB) leaning heavily on its Fre and ALP lines for growth. Watch the video below to see what upcoming earnings could reveal about its competitive future. *This video was published on Aug. 6, 2026. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again.In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue » Should you buy stock in Turning Point Brands right now? Before you buy stock in Turning Point Brands, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Turning Point Brands wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $399,832!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $1,374,595!* Now, it’s worth noting Stock Advisor’s total average return is 968% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 215% for the S&P 500. Don't miss the latest top 10 list, available with Stock Advisor, and join an investing community built by individual investors for individual investors. See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of August 9, 2026. Jim Gillies has positions in Turning Point Brands. Lou Whiteman has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Nicholas Sciple has positions in Philip Morris International and Turning Point Brands. The Motley Fool recommends Philip Morris International and Turning Point Brands. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

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