AXT, Inc.
NASDAQAXTI short interest falls 34% in one week to 17.6% of float, as bearish positions unwind despite stock weakness.
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Read on ORTEX →Sign up for premiumAXTI enters the week of September 15 with a striking contradiction at its core: short sellers are abandoning positions at the fastest pace in months, yet the stock has shed 17% in a week and nearly 30% over the past…
Snapshot as of 20 Sept 2026
AXT, Inc. delivered one of the most dramatic earnings beats of the small-cap semiconductor cycle on July 30 — and the market spent the following week testing whether the new price level is defensible. The stock gained…
AXT, Inc. has now delivered its Q2 result — and the market's reaction has been brutal, with the stock falling another 10.7% on July 28 to close at $42.76, extending the week's loss to 24% and the month's to 39%. The…
AXT, Inc. heads into Wednesday's Q2 earnings with competing signals sharper than almost any other small-cap print this quarter — a heavily shorted stock, a conspicuously bullish options market, and a mean analyst…
AXT, Inc. enters its July 30 earnings week with the most interesting development being not what shorts are doing, but what they are stopping doing. Bears have started trimming. Short interest peaked at 11.75 million…
AXT, Inc. arrives at its July 30 earnings print with the internal contradiction that defined the past two weeks finally resolving — in one direction at least. The short position has started to unwind. Bears held 25.2%…
AXT, Inc. registered a 14% single-day gain on July 14, yet the week as a whole closed essentially flat — a volatile holding pattern that captures the fundamental tension heading into July 30 earnings: a heavy short…
AXT, Inc. heads into its July 30 earnings report with one of the starkest internal contradictions in the semiconductor materials space: short interest at a multi-week high, yet options traders running the most bullish…
AXT, Inc. has lost another fifth of its value this week, deepening a collapse that began when insiders cashed out $21 million near the top — and the market is now asking a sharper question: with shorts rebuilding and…
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