Nasdaq Short Interest August 2007

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Below is the short interest for major company stocks traded on the Nasdaq. The figures are from August 15 and compare to numbers from July 13, 2007.

Investors were not willing to bet on a consolidation among discount brokers with the short interest in Schwab and E*Trade rising. It appears they did believe that Whole Foods would complete its merger with Wild Oats, lowering short interest in WFMI.

Short interest in cable companies, especially Comcast and Charter fell, perhaps indicating a bottom for those stocks.

And, shorts moved out of Yahoo! indicating that many investors do not see its shares falling further.

Largest Short Positions

Level 3 (LVLT)                                    129.3 million shares short

Comcast (CMCSA)                             113.2 million shares

Microsoft (MSFT)                                 97.2 million shares

Charter (CHTR)                                    94.5 million shares

Sirius (SIRI)                                         91.0 million shares

Intel (INTC)                                          84.0 million shares

Yahoo! (YHOO)                                   62.3 million shares

Cisco (CSCO)                                     57.5 million shares

Applied Materials (AMAT)                    50.3 million shares

Oracle (ORCL)                                    46.3 million shares

Conexant (CNXT)                                 45.5 million shares

Symantec (SYMC)                              42.9 million shares

Sun Microsystems (SUNW)                 41.0 million shares

Largest Increase In Short Position

Expedia (EXPE)                                  9.2 million share increase

E*Trade (ETFC)                                  7.7 million share increase

ON Semi (ONNN)                              6.8 million share increase

Ebay (EBAY)                                     5.5 million share increase

NetFlix (NFLX)                                   4.9 million share increase

Oracle (ORCL)                                   4.7 million share incrase

Schwab (SCHW)                                3.4 million share increase

Tivo (TIVO)                                         3.1 million share increase

Largest Decreases In Short Interest

Whole Foods Market (WFMI)               9.3 million shares decrease

Charter                                              9.2 million share decrease

Opsware (OPSW)                               8.9 million share decrease

Yahoo!                                               8.5 million share decrease

Dell (DELL)                                        8.4 million share decrease

Applied Materials                                8.2 million share decrease

Crocs (CROX)                                     8.0 million share decrease

Comcast                                            6.6 million share decrease

Data from NASD and WSJ

Douglas A. McIntyre

    

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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