Nasdaq Short Positions July 2006

As of mid-July these were the major companies with large or significantly changing short positions:


Largest positions:

Sirius 110.1 million
Yahoo! 87.7 million
Microsoft 87.5 million
JDS Uni 83.2 million
Level 3 81.6 million
Intel 69.0 million
Charter Com 65,8 million
JetBlue 51.8 million
eBay 50.0 million
Symantec 45.1 million
Oracle 45.0 million
Cisco 39.1 million
Comcast 38.1 million
XM Sat 37.1 million
Amazon 36.6 million
Dell 36.0 million
Sun 32.8 million

Largest increases:

Symantec 21.3 million
Microsoft 14.4 million
Finisar 9.7 million
Transmeta 7.1 million
Yahoo! 6.4 million
Jetblue 6.1 million
Take-Two 5.5 million


Largest decreases:

Sirius 37.2 million
Level 3 23.4 million
Sun 21.6 million
Ciena 20.6 million
Atmel 11.8 million
Integrated Dv 9.1 million
JDS Uni 7.6 million

Largest short ratios:

Integrated Alarm 73 days
Renaissance Lrn 61 days
3D Systems 43 days
SCO Group 42 days
AtheroGenics 4o days
KVH Ind 39 days


Douglas A. McIntyre