Nasdaq Short Interest, May 2006

Stocks: (SIRI)(LVLT)(YHOO)(JDSU)(CHTR)(INTC)(SUNW)(MSFT)(CIEN)(EBAY)(CNXT)(AMTD)(HAWK)(ORCL)

The largest short interest in Nasdaq stocks in May was:

Nasdaq 100 Trust 122.248 million
Sirius 119.144 million
Level 3 100.041 million
Yahoo! 78.282 million
JDS Uniphase 69.511 million
Charter Comm 69.412 million
Intel 55.962 million
Sun 51.681 million
Microsoft 50.844 million
Ciena 46.914 million
eBay 46.301 million


The largest changes up in short interest were:

JDS Uniphase up 17.9 million to 69.5 million
Level 3 up 15.7 million to 100 million
Conexant up 9.7 million to 31.6 million
TD Ameritrade up 6.2 million to 12.2 million
Petrohawk Energy up 5.9 million to 9.7 million
eBay up 5.6 million to 46.3 million

The largest changes down in short interest were:

Nasdaq 100 Trust down 25.3 million to 122.2 million
Sun down 9.3 million to 51.7 million
Intel down 6.3 million to 55.9 million
Microsoft down 6.2 million to 50.8 million
Oracle down 6.2 million to 37.3 million
Charter Comm down 5.1 million to 69.4 million


The largest short interest ratios were:

SCO Group 188 days
Navarre 55 days
Introgen 54 days
Convera 52 days
Mair Holdings 52 days
Integrated Alarm 47 days

Other notable short ratios:

Valence 23 days
Costar 21 days
eCollege 21 days
DTS 20 days
NeoPharm 20 days

Douglas A. McIntyre