WOLF leads all US mid-caps in short interest. Bears hold 129.9% of its free float short. That figure rose another 26.8 percentage points in the past week alone. Availability has hit zero — no shares left to borrow.
LCID is another EV name drawing heavy fire. Short interest sits at 39.2% of free float. It climbed 7.1 points this week. The cost to borrow has spiked to 77.9% APR — a sign shorts are paying up to stay in.
QSR (Restaurant Brands, owner of Burger King) saw a sharp move. SI jumped from 6.6% to 14.8% in just seven days. That's more than doubled in a week.
ULCC (Frontier Airlines) also drew fresh attention. SI rose 8.6 points to 42.2% of free float.
On the social-media radar, SOUN remains heavily shorted at 41.2%. Bears added another 3.7 points this week. CBRS (Cerebras Systems) sits at 36.5% and keeps climbing.
CHWY bucked the trend. Short interest eased slightly to 67.5%, down 1.8 points. That's still the highest of any large liquid US name.
With quarter-end approaching, short covering pressure could build fast across these names.
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