Avis Budget Group, Inc.
NASDAQAvis Budget Group heads into the back half of May with short sellers still committed but the mechanics of that bet becoming steadily cheaper to maintain. Short interest remains elevated at 14.4% of the float — a genuine bearish anchor — but the direction of travel is clear. Shares short have fallen roughly 42% from their late-April peak of nearly 9.6 million shares, continuing a…
CAR short interest plunges 22% in one week to 15.5% of float, marking sharpest decline since April as cost to borrow collapses 43%.
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Avis Budget Group heads into the back half of May with short sellers still committed but the mechanics of that bet becoming steadily cheaper to maintain. Short interest remains elevated at 14.4% of the float — a…
Avis Budget Group reported Q1 results on May 20 and the short-interest picture heading into the print has barely shifted — bears remain dug in at 14.6% of the float, even as the borrow market continues to loosen from…
Snapshot as of 22 Jun 2026
Avis Budget Group enters its May 20 earnings with one of the most dramatic short-interest unwinds of the year — yet the stock has still halved in a month, leaving shorts and bulls both nursing losses. Short interest…
CAR enters its May 20 earnings window in a very different posture than it held three weeks ago — and the speed of the reversal is the story. Short interest has collapsed. From a peak of roughly 27% of the free float in…
Short sellers are retreating from CAR at speed. Short interest has fallen 36% in a single week to 17.3% of free float. That unwind is the dominant story — but the analyst community is moving in the opposite…
Pentwater Capital dumped over $120 million of CAR stock in a single day. That's the story behind a dramatic unwinding in short interest — even as the lending market stays completely tapped out. On April 23, Pentwater…
CAR heads into Tuesday's Q1 print with every available share to borrow already lent out and options traders piling on protection at an unusually high rate — a combination that makes the short-side setup as charged as…
Why this matters — Three distinct ORTEX data types have aligned bearishly on CAR within days. Utilisation at 100%, a record-high put/call ratio, and a cost-to-borrow that nearly doubled in a week all point in the same…
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