10 Most Shorted NYSE Stocks
Here are the top 10 most shorted stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange, as of the November 15 settlement date.
Here are the top 10 most shorted stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange, as of the November 15 settlement date.
- Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S), 152.08 million shares short, down 9.7% from the previous period and 24.0% of the float.
- Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC), 148.77 million shares, up 22.8% and 1.5% of the float.
- Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK), 128.27 million shares, down 7.0% and 16.8% of the float.
- Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F), 120.88 million shares, down 14.2% and 3.1% of the float.
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA), 112.12 million shares, up 0.4% and 4.5% of the float.
- Vale S.A. (NYSE: VALE), 111.40 million shares, down 19.4%.
- Weatherford International PLC (NYSE: WFT), 106.67 million shares, up 32.7% and 12.1% of the float.
- General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), 102.03 million shares, down 6.5% and 1.1% of the float.
- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), 101.28 million shares, up 4.4% and 1.6% of the float.
- Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE: FCX), 94.71 million shares, down 20.5% and 7.2% of the float.
Note that the top nine stocks on the list all had more than 100 million shares short at the end of the most recent settlement period.
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