Edited by Peter Hillerberg1 min readStories are generated from ORTEX data and reviewed by the ORTEX team. How we publish
Short sellers turned aggressively bearish on CHWY this week. Short interest jumped 21 percentage points in seven days to 89.4% of free float. That is one of the largest weekly moves among stocks with a market cap above $500 million.
WOLF (Wolfspeed) and MMED (MiniMed Group) hold the most extreme readings in the large-cap universe. Wolfspeed sits at 86.1% SI of float with zero shares available to borrow. MiniMed is at 95.4%, also with effectively no shares left to borrow and a cost to borrow of 197% annualised. Both are textbook short-squeeze candidates on paper, though borrowing is nearly impossible.
EVCM (EverCommerce) carries a short score of 96 and a cost to borrow of 243%. Availability is just 2.6% of short interest. Shorts are deeply committed and exits would be painful.
SKYD (Skydance) also saw a sharp rise, with SI climbing nearly 20 points in the past week to 64.8% of float.
On the other side, SSMR (Sunshine Silver Mining) saw shorts cut by 16.6 points. BBNX (Beta Bionics) shed 9.2 points of short interest in a week.
TSLA remains lightly shorted at 2.5% of float. The company reports earnings on 21 October. ORTEX Alt Data tracking German car registrations is running 269% above the same quarter last year, a dataset that leads Tesla revenue by 43 days.
US CPI printed a record September high of 336.94, keeping rate-cut hopes in check and adding pressure to heavily shorted consumer names like Chewy.
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