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This week in stock sentiment

Week of 2026-10-12 · AI sentiment across 100 widely-followed US tickers · Sentiment deteriorated this week.

AI sentiment readings this week showed a notable pullback in bullish conviction, with the proportion of bullish stocks declining to 54 from 62 the previous week, while bearish positions nearly halved from 12 to 9. Major shifts included sentiment reversals on several large-cap stocks—Tesla, Walmart, and AMD moving from bullish to neutral, while Bank of America shifted from neutral to bullish—alongside significant momentum swings in defensive and telecom sectors, with Verizon experiencing the steepest 57-point drop in bullish sentiment. The week's price action was mixed, with biotech (Moderna +18.4%) and e-commerce (Shopify +12.9%) leading gains while semiconductors (Intel -12.3%) and industrials lagged, though historical patterns suggest last week's bullish-rated stocks still managed modest gains in subsequent trading.
54
Bullish
was 62
36
Neutral
was 26
9
Bearish
was 12

Signal Market Sentiment Index

67 bullish zone · +1 vs a week ago
25 50 75 07-1808-0608-2409-1109-2910-16
Daily average of (bull % − bear %) across 100 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

MRNA $225.00 +18.4% wk
SHOP $170.85 +12.9% wk
PLTR $209.05 +10.8% wk

🔻 Top price losers this week

INTC $104.70 -12.3% wk
DE $620.93 -9.6% wk
VZ $41.65 -9.3% wk

📈 Biggest sentiment risers

GM bearish → bullish +55% bull adj +55 · Z +0.96σ
NEE bearish → bullish +50% bull adj +65 · Z +1.37σ
TEAM neutral → bullish +47% bull
CSCO neutral → bullish +40% bull adj +55 · Z +0.77σ
ROKU neutral → bullish +38% bull adj +78 · Z +1.68σ

📉 Biggest sentiment fallers

VZ bullish → bearish -57% bull adj -60 · Z -1.63σ
MCD bullish → bearish -45% bull adj -30 · Z -0.27σ
ZM neutral → -45% bull adj +0 · Z -1.12σ
AXP bullish → neutral -40% bull adj +5 · Z -1.66σ
MRK bullish → neutral -35% bull adj +10 · Z -0.44σ

⚡ Verdict flips

TSLA bullish → neutral -20% bull adj +3 · Z -0.38σ
WMT bullish → neutral -30% bull adj +5 · Z -0.46σ
HD bearish → neutral +30% bull adj +15 · Z +0.66σ
AMD bullish → neutral -30% bull adj -10 · Z -2.41σ
NFLX bearish → neutral +15% bull adj +5 · Z +1σ
BAC neutral → bullish +35% bull adj +55 · Z +0.79σ

◎ Did last week's verdicts pan out?

Bullish verdicts (62 tickers): 66% rose over the next 3 trading days · average move +0.9%
Bearish verdicts (12 tickers): 50% fell over the next 3 trading days · average move -0.9%
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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