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PayPal was spun off from eBay in 2015 and provides electronic payment solutions to merchants and consumers, with a focus on online transactions. The company had 434 million active accounts at the end of 2024. The company also owns Venmo, a person-to-person payment platform.

FactSet provides financial data and portfolio analytics to the global investment community. The company aggregates data from third-party data suppliers, news sources, exchanges, brokerages, and contributors into its workstations. In addition, it provides essential portfolio analytics that companies use to monitor portfolios and address reporting requirements. Buy-side clients (including wealth and corporate clients) account for over 80% of FactSet's annual subscription value. In 2015, the company acquired Portware, a provider of trade execution software. In 2017, it acquired BISAM, a risk management and performance measurement provider. In 2022, it completed its purchase of CUSIP Global Services.

Market sentiment remains muted, especially when considering how strong the stock market has been since the April bottom. One would might think that market participants, no matter who they are, would be euphoric with the three-year gains that have been posted since the last bear market ended in October 2022. The weekly National Association of Active Investment Managers Exposure Index (NAAIM) has been very steady since the beginning of May, with exposure ranging between 70% and 99% and this week's reading at 86%. During large and lengthy advances in the past, exposure has jumped over 100% and occasionally exceeded 110%. Participants in this survey typically move in sync with prices, but have not pushed all their chips in during this advance. The weekly American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) survey is even more compelling, as survey members have not exhibited extreme bullishness toward the stock market since back in 2024. The current weekly data shows 42% bulls and 39% bears, rather stunning given the market's performance. The participants in this survey have been the smart money at times, and seem to be somewhat sophisticated individual investors who have played this game for many years. Still, in the options market, the 10-day CBOE equity-only put/call ratio has dropped to an extremely low level of 0.51, the second-lowest reading of the year (May 20) and close to the low from July 2023 (right before a three-month correction). The 21-day equity-only P/C is still falling (a bullish sign), but is close to reaching an extreme level. (Mark Arbeter, CMT)

The Vickers Top Buyers & Sellers is a daily report that identifies the five companies the largest insider purchase transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions as well as the five companies the largest insider sales transactions based on the dollar value of the transactions.