JQP, rummaging around in Barron's online I found short
interest sorted by rank. It only shows 2 months and is late.
Here's Nasdaq [20 most heavily shorted stocks]...Sorry for
the messy format, in spite of the preview looking OK.
Short Interest Highlights,
NASDAQ Issues
Friday, August 24, 2001
Largest Short Positions
Rank Aug. 15 Jul. 13 Change
1 Cisco Systems Inc 96,255,131 84,898,482 11,356,649
2 Intel Corp 93,199,535 74,888,055 18,311,480
3 Exodus Communicat r 87,890,751 61,251,912 26,638,839
4 Level Three Communic 64,157,931 56,604,054 7,553,877
5 Microsoft Corp 63,988,119 55,984,633 8,003,486
6 Dell Computer 58,094,170 52,832,061 5,262,109
7 Oracle Corp 55,908,199 57,837,593 (1,929,394)
8 Amazon.com Inc 51,797,049 47,873,618 3,923,431
9 WorldCom Group 50,506,288 60,494,623 (9,988,335)
10 Yahoo! Inc 43,138,197 42,092,190 1,046,007
11 Nextel Commun A 42,144,356 48,455,608 (6,311,252)
12 XO Commun A 39,850,519 31,229,467 8,621,052
13 Comcast Corp A Spl 37,213,420 32,475,553 4,737,867
14 JDS Uniphase 35,352,652 37,063,075 (1,710,423)
15 Sun Microsystems 34,434,961 31,044,206 3,390,755
16 Excite@Home 30,251,498 22,309,476 7,942,022
17 Charter Communic 29,046,656 31,538,742 (2,492,086)
18 Metromedia Fiber 27,071,916 18,396,738 8,675,178
19 Applied Materials 26,212,666 28,032,167 (1,819,501)
20 McLeodUSA Inc 24,856,787 24,676,147 180,640 |
