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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%…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Short sellers raised their bets on AIRI by 15.6% over the past week, while cost to borrow edged higher. The aerospace manufacturer closed at $3.18 Friday, flat week-over-week but down 0.3% in the past month. Air…
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.…
Interactive Brokers closed at $76.62, up 16% over the past month, though the stock fell 6.2% this week. Short interest dropped 23% from March highs while analysts lifted price targets across the board, creating a mean…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
MOH jumped 18% this week as three major-firm analysts lifted price targets following Q1 results. Short interest rose 2.3% week-on-week, while options flow turned modestly bullish. MOH closed at $175.94 on April 24, up…
The Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF saw short interest jump 11% this week to reach 3.37 million shares, while the fund gained 0.4% and rose 9% over the month. Utilisation spiked to 7.89%, the highest since early April,…
Short interest in the S&P 500 ETF dropped 2% over the past week while cost to borrow jumped 27%. Options sentiment spiked to a 2.67 standard deviation above the 20-day mean. Utilisation fell to 6.45%, down from the…
Semiconductor ETF SOXX hit fresh multi-week highs in short interest and utilisation this week despite a blistering 11% rally. Bears are doubling down at $461.60, even as the fund surged 35% in a month. SOXX closed…
Network-1 Technologies saw cost to borrow surge to 15.8% while short interest fell 33% in a single day. Utilisation dropped to just 0.03% — a 30-day low. Institutional holders remain polarised between long-term…
