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FCPT Lending Costs Spike Amid Insider Buying

FCPT traded at $25.43, up 1.1% Friday but down 0.9% for the week. The REIT's short interest sits at 3.45% of float. Cost to borrow jumped sharply mid-week while CEO Bill Lenehan added over 20,000 shares across three…

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Galmed Short Interest Collapses 87% in One Week

Shares on loan in GLMD plunged to 91,586 from over 1.7 million earlier this month. Cost to borrow remains elevated at 168%. No official analyst target price stands. GLMD closed at $0.63 on April 24, up 1.9% on the day.…

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Short Sellers Pile Into Alpha Compute

Alpha Compute faces mounting short pressure as shares collapse 32% in a week. Short interest surged 530% in seven days to 48% of float while cost to borrow spiked above 200%. ALP closed at $0.22 on April 24, down 32%…

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DSS Short Interest Surges 273% as Stock Plummets 42%

DSS shares fell 42% this week to $0.56 while short interest exploded 273% over seven days, reaching 2.42% of free float. Utilisation jumped from near-zero to 67% as lending costs rose 43% week-over-week. DSS closed at…

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Meta Climbs 2.4% Amid Earnings Countdown

Meta closed at $675.03, up 2.4% Friday but down 2% for the week. Short interest sits at 1.21% of float – a 30-day high. Options traders tilt heavily bullish (PCR at 52-week low) ahead of Tuesday's Q1 print. Analysts…

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SemiLEDs Surges 18% Amid Rising Borrow Costs

SemiLEDs Corporation shares jumped 18% Friday to close at $1.63, extending a month-long rally that has seen the micro-cap semiconductor maker gain 28%. The move coincided with cost to borrow spiking to 11.3%, up 654%…

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Visteon Surges 30% in Month on Strong Earnings Beat

Visteon shares jumped 15% this week to $113.69, capping a 30% month as Q1 earnings beat expectations and analysts lifted targets across the board. Short interest fell 9%, utilization sits near multi-month lows, and…

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Short Sellers Pull Back on Cosmos Health

Short interest in COSM plunged 27% overnight. CEO Siokas has bought $1.3M of stock since early January. Utilisation dropped to 38% after hitting a near-term peak of 66% last week. COSM closed at $0.38 on April 24. The…

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ARR Short Interest Slides 14% in One Week

ARMOUR Residential REIT saw short interest drop sharply over the past week even as utilisation climbed back near the 52-week high. Options flow turned historically bullish. Analysts nudged targets higher…

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Kartoon Studios Pins 52-Week Utilisation High

Shares in TOON closed at $0.70 on April 24, up 15.8% over the past month. Utilisation has locked at 100% for the past week, matching the 52-week high, while short interest climbed 7.1% over seven days to 1.84% of the…

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GOAI: Short Interest Tumbles as Shares Slide 16%

Eva Live shares fell 16% this week to $3.57 as short sellers rapidly exited positions. Short interest dropped 14% to just 0.34% of float. Cost to borrow remains elevated at 113% despite a 19% weekly decline. The stock…

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AGNC Short Interest Climbs Amid Bearish Options Shift

Short interest in AGNC rose 16.7% over the past month to 8.7% of float, while options sentiment flipped bearish with put/call ratio plunging to 0.66 — a 52-week low. Cost to borrow fell 16.4% over 30 days to 0.54%, and…

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SATS Short Interest Climbs Past 23%

SATS short interest jumped 21.6% over the past month, reaching 36.9M shares — 23.6% of float. The stock fell 11.8% this week to $117.50 as short sellers increased positions. Cost to borrow rose modestly to 0.72%, while…

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Bridgeline Digital: Insiders Buy the Dip

CEO Roger Kahn and director Michael Ketslakh have accumulated more than 78,000 shares over the past two months, with buying accelerating at prices below $1. Short interest has tripled in 30 days to 0.11% of float.…

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Reed's Short Interest Collapses 58% in Month

Reed's Inc. saw short interest plunge 58% over the past month to just 0.24% of float, while cost to borrow remains elevated at 21% and utilization has fallen to near-record lows. The beverage maker closed Friday at…

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Oil Fund Shorts Surge Past 87% as Crude Rally Accelerates

Short sellers have piled into USO even as the oil tracking fund surged 14% over the past week. Short interest now stands at 87.5% of float — the highest level in a month — while cost to borrow has more than doubled in…

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AGG Short Interest Climbs 14% in a Month

Bond ETF sees short positions expand to 19.6M shares amid subdued utilisation. Cost to borrow ticked up 20% over 30 days. Options sentiment turned bearish this week. AGG closed at $99.59 on April 24, up 0.14% on the…

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Chipotle Shorts Climb as Earnings Loom

Short sellers added to CMG positions ahead of Tuesday's earnings call, pushing short interest to a month high. Options traders turned bullish while three Wall Street firms cut targets. CMG closed at $34.21 on April 24,…

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