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...LVLT), the broadband infrastructure company, has also been at the top of short selling lists for years. It has a float of close to one billion shares which makes taking a short position in the stock fairly easy. Average trading volume per day is 10 million shares. As of April 15, there were 122.9 million shares sold short, down 13% in two weeks. Level 3 has two factors that short sellers love. It has awful financial prospects and a volatile share price. At the end of the last quarter, Level 3 had $6.3 billion in debt and almost no operating...
...Ford (F) had 113 million share sold short as of April, an extraordinary drop of 53% since two weeks before that. The stock was up 47% to $4.04 over that period which wiped out a number of short positions. Since then, the shares have moved even higher on earnings and analyst upgrades and change hands at more than $5. Ford trades a tremendous 121 million shares a day. Any news about the potential bankruptcy of GM (GM) or Chrysler moves Ford's stock due to concerns, among others, that a liquidation of either of those firms could bring down parts...
...Gannett (GCI) is the largest newspaper company in the U.S. which makes it the subject of constant speculation and financial media interest. Its short interest as of April 15 was 63.8 million shares, down 7% from two weeks earlier. The company has a very high 28% of its float sold short, which is equivalent to six trading days of volume based on the current daily average. As concerns about the fate of the newspaper industry mounted, Gannett's shares plunged from over $9 in mid-January to $1.85 in mid-March. Two weeks ago, Ariel Investments announced that...
...debt for the capital. The company's stock began the trading year at $.12 and fell to $.05 in early February on concerns that it might fold. Since then, the shares are up over 8x to $.43. There were almost 167 million shares sold short in Sirius as of April 15, down 8% from two weeks earlier, but it would take six days of trading at average volume to cover that short interest so there is still a lot of money wagering that the stock will drop...
...world. Microsoft's ongoing battle with Google (GOOG) over search and desktop software keeps it in the headlines regularly, and its quest to get control of Yahoo!'s (YHOO) search engine operation has gone on for a year. Microsoft had a short interest of 88.4 million shares as of April 15 down 10%. The company has almost 9 billion shares outstanding and trades 68.7 billion shares a day. Microsoft (MSFT) traded at almost $21 in early January but fell to $14.87 in early March, a remarkable drop for a company with a market cap of $185 billion...