🇺🇸 Short selling in United States, Q1 2020

From 15 Jan 2020 to 31 Mar 2020, 3,539 United States companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was GameStop Corp. Class A at 98.85% on 15 Jan 2020. 41 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 43 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official FINRA data.

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Short position data for Short selling in United States, Q1 2020: FINRA, compiled by howshorted.com, settlement date 31 Mar 2020. https://howshorted.com/us/review/2020-q1/

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  title        = {Short selling in United States, Q1 2020 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
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  note         = {Data: FINRA, settlement date 31 Mar 2020; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2020}
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Biggest rises of the quarter

Change Healthcare Inc.+30.45pp to 40.28%
Whiting Petroleum Corporation+22.09pp to 56.34%
McKesson Corporation+18.43pp to 20.62%
OpGen, Inc.+17.44pp to 18.89%
VIVUS, Inc.+14.96pp to 21.21%

Biggest falls of the quarter

GreenSky, Inc.−24.49pp to 7.52%
USA TODAY Co., Inc.−24.48pp to 17.27%
Callon Petroleum Company−17.86pp to 16.63%
DMC Global Inc.−16.47pp to 21.08%
Teladoc Health, Inc.−15.37pp to 14.48%

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.