Betting against AI paid this week.
Data by ORTEX, article by The Times.
Shorts in 40 US AI stocks: about $32.8bn up on the week by Friday midday, after $35bn on Thursday.
FTSE shorts: about £378m on Friday.
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$IREN is a crowded AI short: 100.6m shares, 26% of the float, double January's level.
It had worked: shorts made about $2.1bn as the stock fell 58% this year.
This morning it is up 19% after AI cloud revenue rose 182% in a quarter, costing them $341m.
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Intel's outlook, then midterm data center fears: a rough four sessions for AI stocks.
Short sellers have not: about $16.2bn of estimated paper gains across nine names.
$NVDA $4.1bn
$MU $3.2bn
$AMD $3.0bn
$LITE $2.3bn, down 32% and reporting today
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$APP closed at $228.50 on Friday. It is $320 pre-market today, up 40% in four sessions, after revenue grew 55% and Q4 guidance came in well above forecasts.
Shorts have given back about $1bn of paper gains in that run, and 11m shares are still short.
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$WOLF closed more than 4% lower today as Wolfspeed's fiscal Q1 earnings take center stage.
ORTEX data shows estimated short interest near 88% of free float, highlighting elevated short positioning around the earnings event.
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$HTZ heads into Thursday's Q3 earnings with short interest above 73% of free float and borrowing costs climbing sharply in recent weeks.
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$AMD heads into Tuesday's Q3 earnings after shares fell nearly 11% on Friday amid a broader semiconductor selloff.
With AI demand and data center growth in focus, investors now await AMD's results.
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$GOOGL is down more than 11% following its Q3 earnings miss, as slowing search growth and heavy AI spending weigh on shares.
Citizens also downgraded Alphabet to Market Perform, citing concerns over search monetization.
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$IBKR has recorded eight consecutive weekly declines, its longest losing streak since going public in 2007.
Despite strong Q3 results, the stock has continued to decline while short positioning has increased.
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$SOFI beat and raised, and the shorts are getting caught.
220m shares are sold short, 17.3% of the float. In January it was 120m.
At $16.04 pre-market, up 11%, that is a $347m paper loss for the bears in one morning.
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$AMD is among the chipmakers expressing interest in Meta's planned $95B equity fundraising to support its AI expansion.
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$ENVX is up more than 10% today as short positioning remains elevated and shares available to borrow remain limited.
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The $TSLA earnings call in one minute, from our summary:
Highest car backlog in four years
75% of N. America buyers paid for FSD
Robotaxi miles up 8x in a quarter
Energy margin 33.1%, from 20.4%
Optimus a year+ from 20k a week
A new $30bn credit line
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$TSLA can't pick a direction after earnings.
Bulls: 48c EPS vs 43c expected, $1.5bn free cash flow, capex cut to $20bn.
Bears: operating income down 56%, car sales revenue down 3%.
Shorts edged up to 2.61% of float. Calls still lead puts 623k to 443k.
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17% of its float is short, more than $GME
A month ago it was 14%
Calls outtrade puts 4 to 1
It started out refinancing student loans
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