Short sellers have been busy this week. HTZ now sits at 70% SI % FF — up 25.5 percentage points in just 30 days. Bears are clearly not done with the rental car giant despite it already being one of the most crowded short trades in the US market.
The week's sharpest mover is SPCX, the SpaceX tracking stock, where SI % FF jumped from 3.6% to 27.6% in a single week — a 24 percentage point surge. Fresh short interest is piling in fast.
LCID remains a structural bear target. SI % FF sits at 38.6%, up 4.6 points over 30 days. Its cost to borrow has ballooned to 310% APR — the highest among popular names — signalling extreme difficulty in borrowing shares.
TNGX also caught attention. Tango Therapeutics hit 59.5% SI % FF, rising 12 points in a month.
On the squeeze-watch side, BYND saw its SI drop 4 points over 30 days to . Short covering may be underway.
Familiar meme names are quiet. GME holds at 13.7% with zero change. TSLA stays low at 3%. MSTR is flat at 11.9%.
The big theme heading into earnings week: shorts are concentrating on distressed names — rental cars, EV startups, and biotech — while the meme crowd sits on the sidelines.
Data as of 16 July 2026. This is not financial advice.
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