🇺🇸 Short selling in United States, Q4 2019

From 15 Oct 2019 to 31 Dec 2019, 3,590 United States companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was GameStop Corp. Class A at 95.08% on 31 Dec 2019. 815 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 63 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official FINRA data.

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Short position data for Short selling in United States, Q4 2019: FINRA, compiled by howshorted.com, settlement date 31 Dec 2019. https://howshorted.com/us/review/2019-q4/

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@misc{howshorted-short-selling-in-united-states-q4-2019-2019-12-31,
  title        = {Short selling in United States, Q4 2019 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/us/review/2019-q4/}},
  note         = {Data: FINRA, settlement date 31 Dec 2019; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2019}
}

Biggest rises of the quarter

GameStop Corp. Class A+23.41pp to 95.08%
NORTECH SYSTEMS INC+16.67pp to 16.71%
FITBIT, INC.+15.63pp to 26.96%
iRobot Corporation+13.71pp to 45.49%
Nuwellis, Inc.+13.34pp to 14.21%

Biggest falls of the quarter

Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.−14.96pp to 24.61%
KEMET Corporation−11.28pp to 10.59%
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.−10.29pp to 41.21%
Cerenome, Inc.−9.65pp to 1.76%
Frontier Communications Parent, Inc.−9.47pp to 41.86%

Changes compare each company's last figure of the quarter with its first; companies with a single report in the quarter are counted but not ranked. Where disclosure thresholds apply the figures are floors, not a census. Nothing here is investment advice.