Edited by Peter Hillerberg1 min readStories are generated from ORTEX data and reviewed by the ORTEX team. How we publish
Short interest in CHWY jumped 21 percentage points in a single week. The pet retailer now has 89.4% of its free float sold short. That is the biggest seven-day rise among large-caps tracked by ORTEX.
WOLF sits close behind at 86.1% of free float short. The chip maker's short position grew another 4.6 points over the same period. It carries 10.8 days to cover, the longest runway on the most-shorted list.
MMED tops the large-cap table at 95.4% SI of free float. Its ORTEX short score is 91 out of 100. Availability is near zero, which makes new short positions very hard to open.
Two names face index pressure on top of short selling. ORTEX Index Rebalance Radar puts MSCI World deletion odds for ASTS at 95%, implying $674M of forced selling. faces 96% deletion odds and $635M of implied selling. The rank date is four sessions away.
TSLA reports earnings on 21 October with SI at just 2.5% of float. German car registration data tracked by ORTEX runs 269% above the same quarter last year. That is a leading indicator for Tesla revenue and points firmly upward. GM reports a day earlier. Its own German registration data runs 133% above the prior year.
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