Stock Tickers: QQQQ, NVDA, MXIM, AMAT, INTC, KLAC, MCHP, SNDK, ISIL, ALTR, ATML, LLTC, NVLS, ONNN, XLNX, IDTI
This pretty much confirms the rise in the June-2007 short interest of NYSE-listed chip stocks that we observed last week. Here is the short interest for June 2007 versus May 2007, and we noted the change on each.
Stock (Ticker) June May&n
bsp; Change
NVIDIA (NVDA) 20.7M 11.7M +76.5%
Maxim Integrated Prod. (MXIM) 11.9M 9.16M +29.8%
Applied Materials (AMAT) 53M 41.59M +27.48%
Intel (INTC) 100.1M 81.2M +23.3%
KLA-Tencor (KLAC) 21.14M 17.1M +23.2%
Microchip Tech. (MCHP) 8.77M 7.64M +14.8%
SanDisk (SNDK) 24.57M 21.58M +13.9%
Intersil Corp. (ISIL) 7.86M 7.76M +1.2%
Altera (ALTR) 22.1M 21.9M +1%
Atmel (ATML) 10.6M 9.70M +9.9%
Linear Tech (LLTC) 18.4M 18.4M flat
Novellus (NVLS) 15.1M 15.3M -1.1%
ON Semiconductor (ONNN) 24.1M 25.5M -5.7%
RAMBUS (RMBS) 7.62M 8.27M -7.9%
Xilinx (XLNX) 21.28M 23.9M -10.9%
Integrated Device Tech. (IDTI) 4.27M 5.56M -23%
The NASDAQ 100 Trust (QQQQ) saw its short interest rise more than 26%, with its short interest carried at 197.6 million shares in June compared to 156.6 million in May.
Jon C. Ogg
June 27, 2007
Jon Ogg can be reached at jonogg@247wallst.com; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.
