Bears Pile Into CoreWeave as Chewy Shorts Retreat

Short sellers added pressure to CRWV last week. CoreWeave's short interest as a percentage of free float rose 3.7 points to 24.8%, the biggest move among US names with market caps above $1 billion. The AI cloud computing firm now carries a cost to borrow of just 0.56%, meaning bears can sit comfortably for now.

The most dramatic reversal belongs to CHWY. Chewy's short interest dropped nearly 5 points to 86.7% of free float, a sharp cover after shorts sat near 91.5% the week before. At 86.7%, it remains one of the most heavily shorted mid-cap consumer names in the US.

WOLF stays deeply entrenched. Wolfspeed held at 83.8% of free float. Its cost to borrow is low at 1.75%, but zero shares are available to borrow. That combination makes any squeeze extremely hard to engineer.

HTZ is the stock shorts cannot escape. Hertz sits at 72.3% short interest with a cost to borrow of 190%, by far the highest among notable names. No availability whatsoever means existing shorts are locked in.

LCID ticked up 1.8 points to 64.7% of free float. US plug-in vehicle registrations hit just 21,482 in July 2026, the smallest July figure in four years, per ORTEX Alt Data. That weak EV demand backdrop gives bears extra cover.

Nuclear names draw attention from the alt data. CEG reactor output fell 10 standard deviations below its own history as of 23 October, per the NRC dataset ingested by ORTEX. Short availability on Constellation is extremely high at nearly 1,980%, suggesting the market is not yet pressing the short case hard.

GME shorts trimmed slightly, down 0.4 points to 10.2% of free float. Social chatter around the name remains active but positions are not building.