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Shorting Web Stocks (May 2007) (GOOG, YHOO, EBAY, AMZN, BIDU, MNST)
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Stock Tickers: GOOG, YHOO, EBAY, AMZN, BIDU, MNST
Short sellers in the online search and content names are not showing any real significant pattern. The short interest actually fell in Google (GOOG), so maybe they are getting out of the way in the name. Believe it or not, the huge run up in Amazon.com (AMZN) did not at all daunt the shorts: there was an increased short interest as the stock marched onward and upward. It also looks like short sellers are betting against the odds of a Monster Worldwide (MNST) acquisition coming any time soon.
Stock (Ticker) MAY APRIL CHANGE
Google (GOOG) 3.98M 4.37M -8.9%
Yahoo! (YHOO) 79.28M 79.04M 0.3%
eBay (EBAY) 33.9M 35.4M -4%
Amazon.com (AMZN) 53.9M 48.5M 11.1%
Monster (MNST) 4.13M 3.44M 20%
Baidu.com (BIDU) 3.15M 2.33M 35.2%
Jon C. Ogg
May 25, 2007
Jon Ogg can be reached at [email protected]; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.
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