Short sellers are busy heading into a packed earnings week. The biggest movers in ORTEX data tell a clear story: bears are piling into stocks with upcoming results.
CHWY tops the list with 52.3% of its free float shorted — up 4.6 percentage points in just seven days. The pet retailer's shares have rallied 14.6% over three months, but short sellers clearly don't believe the move.
WIX saw the sharpest weekly jump among US names. Short interest climbed 6.2 percentage points to 17.8% of free float. Wix reports earnings this week and bears have moved fast.
WOLF remains deeply shorted at 75.3% of free float. The semiconductor firm's stock has collapsed 48.5% over three months. Availability has hit zero, meaning new shorts face serious borrow constraints.
EVCM carries the highest short score in ORTEX data at 94. Cost to borrow sits at 40%, signalling intense bearish conviction. Availability of only 8.6% makes new positions very expensive to establish.
HTZ holds 61.7% short interest with no shares available to borrow. The rental car group has lost 54.8% in three months.
Meanwhile, quantum computing name XNDU added 3.9 percentage points of short interest this week to reach 77.4% — the second-highest float short in ORTEX's universe among stocks above $500M market cap.
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