Five companies that feed the AI power buildout report inside a twelve-day window, and they do not resemble one another once the numbers are laid side by side. First Solar and Monolithic Power Systems print on October 29, Eaton follows on November 3, Vistra on November 6, and Constellation Energy closes the window on November 9.

The scanner's scores for that group run from 69 to 94, which is a wider spread than any other cluster in the table of 100 names. Two of these companies print on the same day and sit at opposite ends of it. Here is how the AI power stocks pre-earnings setups rank, and why the group deserves to be split rather than treated as one trade.

Same print date, opposite ends of the table

First Solar reports on October 29 and carries a score of 94, seventh in the table. Monolithic Power Systems reports on the same date and carries a score of 69, 88th. A twenty-five point gap between two names printing the same morning is not a rounding difference; it comes from different factors arriving at different places.

The conviction factor does most of the separating. First Solar is covered by 36 analysts, with 10 strong buys, 17 buys, 8 holds and 1 sell, so 27 of 36 are on the buy side. Monolithic Power is covered by 17 analysts with 3 strong buys, 13 buys, 1 hold and no sells, so 16 of 17 are positive. On raw sentiment MPWR is the more uniformly liked of the two, and it still scores twenty-five points lower, because coverage breadth and the upside factor are carrying FSLR further.

That upside gap is the largest on the board. The analyst target for Monolithic Power is $1,315.92 against a close of $1,140.12, a 15.4% gap and the widest in the entire table. First Solar's target of $188.19 is 9.4% above its $171.99 close. MPWR also came into the print 2.38% lower on the day, the worst single-session move among the five, while First Solar was up 0.43%.

The volatility spread

Implied volatility is where these five separate most violently. First Solar reads 112.8, which is the kind of number that belongs to a name where the options market has stopped pretending it knows the range. Monolithic Power is at 73.8. Vistra sits at 66.8, Eaton at 61.0 and Constellation Energy at 55.9.

For context on that spread, Apple carries 36.2% implied volatility into its November 2 print and NVIDIA 46.2% into a November 17 report. Every name in this power cluster is priced for a bigger reaction than either of them, even though three of the five have analyst targets only 5.9% above their current price.

That combination is the defining feature of the group: a market paying up for movement while the sell side models a modest re-rating. When implied volatility is high and the target gap is narrow, the print itself is not the trade. The reaction to the print is the trade, and the direction of that reaction is where the risk sits.

Three names with the same target

Constellation Energy, Eaton and Vistra have something unusual in common: each carries an analyst price target exactly 5.9% above its current price. Constellation at $268.31 against $253.45. Eaton at $387.59 against $366.11. Vistra at $148.41 against $140.16. The desk is modelling the same percentage move on a nuclear generator, an electrical-equipment manufacturer and an independent power producer.

The rest of their profiles are not the same at all. Constellation has 25 analysts with 6 strong buys, 15 buys and 4 holds, and a score of 80. Eaton has 28 analysts with 5 strong buys, 18 buys, 4 holds and 1 sell, scoring 78. Vistra has 23 analysts with 4 strong buys, 18 buys, no holds at all and 1 sell, and it scores 70 while carrying the only Negative sentiment reading in the group.

That last point is the one worth pausing on. Vistra is the only one of the five names in the table marked Negative on earnings sentiment, and it is also the only one of the three with a zero-hold analyst distribution, which means its 23 analysts have picked sides. A name where nobody is neutral going into a print tends to produce a wider reaction than its 66.8 implied volatility suggests.

Where the short interest sits

Short interest is the cleanest separator in the group. First Solar carries 13.5% of float, the highest of the five and more than three times Constellation's 3.7%. Monolithic Power is at 5.1%, Vistra at 3.6% and Eaton at 2.1%.

A 13.5% short interest against 112.8 implied volatility is a specific structure. If the quarter beats, the short side has to cover into a market that is already priced for a large reaction, and the two forces point the same way. If it misses, there is no meaningful short left to fuel the move in the other direction, which is why those setups tend to resolve in one direction rather than wobbling.

Eaton, by contrast, is the quietest name in the cluster on every positioning measure: 2.1% short interest, 61.0 implied volatility and a 5.9% target gap. Its score of 78 comes from coverage breadth and a 23 of 28 buy-side split rather than from anything a trader would call a setup.

The five setups in one place

How the ranking is built

The score is a sum of five measurable factors rather than a judgement call. Coverage is worth 25 points on a linear scale, the buy percentage another 25, strong buys add 2 points each up to a cap of 20, the upside component is worth up to 15, and sentiment carries the final 15. Entries are taken between one and thirty-five days ahead of the print, and the exit window runs one to five days after a beat.

Read that way, the dispersion in this group is easy to explain. First Solar scores 94 because it has the broadest coverage in the cluster, the most strong buys, the highest upside reading and a Positive sentiment mark, with 13.5% short interest adding pressure to any move. Monolithic Power scores 69 despite 16 of 17 analysts being positive because it has the thinnest coverage, the weakest upside reading relative to its 15.4% target gap, and a negative 2.38% day into the print.

Constellation, with 14 days to go, sits at 80 and is the furthest from its event. A score built this way moves as the inputs move, so the two names that print first on October 29 are also the two whose scores will change fastest as their dates arrive.

What to do with the window

The practical case for the group is the calendar, not the theme. Five reports in twelve days means the sector's own read-through arrives in stages: solar and power semiconductors on the 29th, electrical equipment on the 3rd, independent generation on the 6th, nuclear generation on the 9th. Each print sets the tone for the next, and the name that prints last inherits four other sets of expectations.

The dispersion is what makes that sequencing worth watching rather than averaging. A sector trade across all five treats a 112.8 implied volatility name and a 55.9 implied volatility name as one position, which they are not. The scores here range across 25 points, the analyst targets from 5.9% to 15.4%, and sentiment from Negative to Positive.

The full table of 100 names updates before every session with the days remaining, the analyst counts, the price target, the implied volatility and the sentiment mark for each one. For the setups that score highest, the paid tier reads out the entry price, the targets and the stop level - which in a group priced for this kind of implied movement is the part that decides the outcome.