Many outperforming stocks this year could burn short sellers even more
Sentiment is often a key theme of Senior V.P. of Strategy Todd Salamone's Monday Morning Outlook. This also applies to individual equities, where Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White compiles a bi-weekly list of stocks most ripe for a short squeeze. The table features the equity's amount of total available float tied up in short interest, how much short interest has increased in the last month, and how underwater these bearish bettors are.
This screen finds stocks where the shorts might be at a big loss and therefore likely to begin covering. Obviously, there are quite a few assumptions so these would be very rough estimates.
To estimate the return for the shorts, Rocky went back over the past year of short interest reports to find when the shorts were added. Then he used the average price over the prior two weeks and estimated the shorts were added at that average price. Below are stocks where significant shorts have been added and they could be at a big loss.
Bear in mind, this data is from the most recent reporting period (10/1), and came out on Oct. 10. Once the new report is out, we will update the tables.
Highlights on the list include a Top Stock Pick for 2025, Nebius Group NV (NASDAQ:NBIS), and a struggling energy stock nobody is talking about in Solaris Energy Infrastructure Inc (NYSE:SEI).
We also highlighted names from three sectors worth watching; satellite stock Rocket Lab Corp (NASDAQ:RKLB), social media staple Reddit Inc (NYSE:RDDT), and quantum computing maven Rigetti Computing Inc (NYSE:RGTI)
