LNAI shorts have moved fast. Short interest jumped 211% in one week to 18.9% of float. Cost to borrow hit 290%. Earnings land in two days.
Short shares outstanding stood at roughly 1.4 million on May 1. By May 8, that figure had climbed to 4.4 million. The move is the sharpest seven-day build in the past 30 days.
Cost to borrow tracked the same trajectory. It rose from 125.8% on May 1 to 290.4% by May 8 — a 131% jump in a single week. Borrowing LNAI now costs nearly three times the stock's annual value in annualised financing terms.
The borrow pool is nearly exhausted. Availability has tightened to near-zero — the lending market is running at 97.4% of its maximum 52-week draw, leaving fewer than 3 shares available for every 100 already borrowed. That is close to the tightest the market has been all year.
The ORTEX short score sits at 80.4. One week ago it was 67.9. The score has risen every session since May 1 without interruption. It now ranks in the 3rd percentile for short score across the market — meaning very few stocks carry a heavier short signal.
Days-to-cover ranks in the 81st percentile. That combination of high SI, tight availability, elevated CTB, and rising short score is rare.
The next scheduled earnings event is May 14. That context matters. The two prior earnings reports both produced large negative moves: -18.5% and -20.3% on day one, followed by five-day declines of 33% and 41% respectively.
The stock trades at $0.32. It is down 12.7% over the past month and down 1.8% on Monday alone.
Options positioning leans heavily bullish. The put/call ratio is 0.07 — near its 52-week low of 0.00. That puts options sentiment in sharp contrast to the lending market, which is betting the other way.
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