Stock Tickers: AMGN, GILD, CELG, GENZ, MEDI, BIIB, AMLN, IMCL, DNDN, NFLD
The short interest is on the rise overall, but the odd thing is that the short interest in biotech shares is really a mixed bag. Some of the short interest indications doesn’t really look like the short sellers were making the right moves, but time will be the true judge. Here are the key NASDAQ biotech short interest numbers:
Stock (Ticker MAY APRIL CHANGE
Amgen (AMGN) 25.59M 27.99M -8.5%
Gilead (GILD) 12.99M 13.57M -4.2%
Celgene (CELG) 25.9M 24.6M 5%
Genzyme (GENZ) 7.05M 6.75M 4.5%
Medimmune (MEDI) 20.5M 17.2M 18.8%
Biogen-Idec (BIIB) 9.61M 9.09M 5.7%
Amylin Pharma (AMLN) 18.7M 20.0M -6.4%
Imclone (IMCL) 6.26M 7.89M -20.6%
Dendreon (DNDN) 41.6M 33.9M 22.9%
Northfield (NFLD) 6.24M 6.62M -5.7%
Jon C. Ogg
May 25, 2007