Short sellers pushed hard into two stressed names this week. Wolfspeed sits at a staggering 115% SI % FF — up nearly 15 percentage points in seven days. Availability is now zero. Bears see no easy way out. Hertz is another pressure cooker. SI % FF hit 47.5%, jumping 12 points over the same period. Availability there is also zero, raising squeeze risk sharply.
CoreWeave is getting fresh attention. The AI infrastructure play saw its SI % FF climb to 28.8%, up 7.6 points this week. With Q2 earnings season opening, ORTEX flagged CoreWeave among names exposed to short squeeze risk. Shares remain on investors' radars alongside Micron and Reddit.
On the unwind side, Avis Budget saw shorts cut positions hard. SI % FF dropped 6.5 points to 39.4%. also saw meaningful short covering, down 5.4 points to 22.5%.
Social-media darlings Tesla and NVIDIA remain lightly shorted at 3% and 1.3% respectively. Bears have little appetite there. Lucid is the EV short play, sitting at 40.5% SI % FF with no signs of covering.
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