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To: Dale Baker who wrote (31513)	7/16/2008 11:25:46 PM
From: Madharry	Read Replies (1) of 78627

thought this is an interesting table: I thought LEH would be high up on the list too. Largest S&P 500 Short Interest as a Percentage of Float By David Pierson July 11 (Bloomberg) -- The following table ranks companies in the Standard & Poor 500 Index whose short interest was more than 5 percent of the float as of June 30. For a spreadsheet with this data, click here. ======================================================================= Short Int Short Equity as a Pctg Interest Float Ticker Name of Float (mln shs.) (mln shs.) ======================================================================= SHLD Sears Holdings Corp 53.2% 32.8 61.7 BIG Big Lots Inc 45.7% 36.9 80.8 KBH KB Home 37.0% 22.8 61.6 DDS Dillard's Inc 29.4% 16.7 57.0 ZION Zions Bancorporation 28.9% 30.1 104.0 LEN Lennar Corp 27.9% 35.3 126.5 GM General Motors Corp 27.1% 152.9 564.4 WM Washington Mutual Inc 26.3% 276.4 1051.4 ======================================================================= Short Int Short Equity as a Pctg Interest Float Ticker Name of Float (mln shs.) (mln shs.) ======================================================================= MBI MBIA Inc 25.5% 68.6 269.3 ETFC E*Trade Financial Corp 24.9% 127.6 512.0 MYL Mylan Inc/PA 23.8% 70.5 296.5 FHN First Horizon National 22.5% 41.6 184.7 AVB AvalonBay Communities 22.1% 16.6 75.1 NCC National City Corp 21.2% 159.2 751.0 CTX Centex Corp 21.1% 25.2 119.7 LEG Leggett & Platt Inc 20.2% 31.6 156.7 MTG MGIC Investment Corp 19.8% 22.6 113.9 VMC Vulcan Materials Co 19.5% 20.5 105.0 HBAN Huntington Bancshares 19.0% 68.6 361.0 MOLX Molex Inc 17.7% 7.1 40.1 MCO Moody's Corp 17.6% 43.1 244.0 AKAM Akamai Technologies Inc 17.6% 28.6 162.9 DHI DR Horton Inc 17.5% 48.6 277.7 MDP Meredith Corp 17.4% 6.2 35.6 ======================================================================= Short Int Short Equity as a Pctg Interest Float Ticker Name of Float (mln shs.) (mln shs.) ======================================================================= RSH RadioShack Corp 17.2% 21.8 126.4 WFMI Whole Foods Market Inc 17.0% 23.6 138.4 COF Capital One Financial 16.9% 62.7 370.3 PHM Pulte Homes Inc 16.9% 35.9 212.2 AMD Advanced Micro Devices 16.7% 93.1 556.2 WHR Whirlpool Corp 16.7% 12.4 74.6 GCI Gannett Co Inc 16.6% 37.9 228.3 MAS Masco Corp 16.5% 58.2 352.6 TIE Titanium Metals Corp 16.5% 14.1 85.3 ACAS American Capital Ltd 16.4% 32.4 198.0 NYT New York Times Co/The 16.4% 22.7 138.5 CMA Comerica Inc 16.1% 23.9 148.8 JNY Jones Apparel Group Inc 15.9% 13.5 85.1 AN AutoNation Inc 15.8% 27.7 175.5 F Ford Motor Co 15.7% 317.1 2019.8 GAS Nicor Inc 15.6% 7.0 44.6 =====================================================================

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