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This week in stock sentiment

Week of 2026-08-17 · AI sentiment across 100 widely-followed US tickers · Overall sentiment held steady this week.

Bullish sentiment held steady this week at 64% of the 100 stocks tracked, with notable conviction shifts including CRM's sharp recovery from bearish to bullish and several mega-cap reversals (META, WMT, HD, JNJ) moving from bullish to neutral. The biggest sentiment gainers were software and semiconductor names like SNOW, CRM, and QCOM, while database and industrials stocks like MDB and PM saw the steepest declines, though this didn't prevent memory and cloud stocks (MU, DDOG, TEAM) from posting the week's strongest price gains. Looking back, last week's bullish verdicts showed follow-through with about 7 in 10 rising over the next three days, while bearish calls proved more mixed.
64
Bullish
was 63
25
Neutral
was 28
7
Bearish
was 7

Signal Market Sentiment Index

68 bullish zone · -2 vs a week ago
25 50 75 07-1407-2408-0408-1408-2409-01
Daily average of (bull % − bear %) across 85 tracked tickers, rescaled 0–100. 50 = neutral. Reflects the tone of news coverage, not price predictions — read changes, not levels.

🚀 Top price gainers this week

MU $971.66 +10.7% wk
DDOG $255.46 +9.2% wk
TEAM $162.22 +8.8% wk

🔻 Top price losers this week

LCID $6.22 -11.6% wk
AVGO $392.99 -8.1% wk
CSCO $111.68 -8.0% wk

📈 Biggest sentiment risers

SNOW neutral → bullish +60% bull
CRM bearish → bullish +50% bull
ADP neutral → bullish +47% bull
QCOM bearish → bullish +45% bull
TXN neutral → bullish +40% bull

📉 Biggest sentiment fallers

MDB bullish → -75% bull
PM bullish → -65% bull
PLTR bullish → bearish -45% bull
BLK bullish → neutral -40% bull
NET bullish → neutral -40% bull

⚡ Verdict flips

META bullish → neutral -20% bull
WMT bullish → neutral -20% bull
HD bullish → neutral -30% bull
PG neutral → bullish +20% bull
JNJ bullish → neutral -25% bull
CRM bearish → bullish +50% bull

◎ Did last week's verdicts pan out?

Bullish verdicts (61 tickers): 69% rose over the next 3 trading days · average move +0.7%
Bearish verdicts (7 tickers): 57% fell over the next 3 trading days · average move +0%
How this is measured: each ticker's verdict from a week ago is checked against its price move over the first 3 trading days that followed — a deliberately short window, closer to the horizon a sentiment read speaks to before the news cycle can re-rate it. "Rose" / "fell" counts direction only (did it move the way the verdict implied?); the average move shows the magnitude. Neutral verdicts are excluded. This is a backward-looking measure of one snapshot held for three days — it is not a forecast, and past accuracy does not guarantee future results.
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Sentiment reflects AI analysis of published news headlines and can change at any time. Historical verdict performance is no guarantee of future accuracy. For informational purposes only · Not financial advice · signalsentiment.com