WHAT THE OWNERSHIP CHART HIDES鈦夛笍
$IREN -
$CIFR
Institutional ownership charts lie a little actually...
When a fund lends shares to a short seller, both the lender and the new buyer report them. Same share, counted twice.
$IREN: real buying happening here. Shorts at record highs do inflate the chart a bit, but the accumulation underneath is genuine. And with the open ATM this does offset it as well actually.
$CIFR: the jump looks impressive until you check what's behind it. Net shares flat, the founding shareholder sold a third of its position, shorts almost doubled. Not the buying wave the chart suggests.
So you see big increases, but net ownership increases didn't move that much, but short interest has for
$IREN -
$CIFR. And that is something you need to consider as well.
$CLSK reached +100% institutional ownership earlier this year, why? Because shorts kept doubling down...