Weekend Edition: Nasdaq Short Interest

Nasdaq Short Interest, September 2006
These are figures for short interest in stocks listed on Nasdaq. Numbers compare September 15, 2006 with August 15, 2006.


Largest Short Positions:

Sirius Satellite 129.5 million shares, up 12.2 million
Level 3 99.1 million shares, up .4 million
Yahoo! 87.2 million, down 5.1 million
JDS Uniphase 85.8 million, up 1.7 million
Microsoft 74.6 million, up 1.7 million
Intel 69.2 million, down .1 million
Charter 65.6 million, down .5 million
Cisco 62.3 million, up 6.9 million
Oracle 60.3 million, up 6.5 million
JetBlue 54.6 million, up 1.2 million
eBay 49.0 million, down 2.4 million
Comcast 46.4 million, up 3.2 million
Amazon 43.6 million, up 3.4 million
Dell 43.3 million, down 4.2 million
Starbucks 35.2 million, up .5 million
Take Two 34.2 million, up .9 million
Sun 32.7 million, down .4 million
Apple 32.3 million, up 4.0 million
Finisar 31.2 million, up .2 million
XM Satellite 30.2 million, up 1.4 million
Conexant 29.8 million, up .5 million
Brocade 28.7 million, up 10.5 million

Largest Increases:

Level 3 14.3 million to 99.1 million
Brocade 12.2 million to 28.7 million
Cisco 6.9 million to 62.3 million
Oracle 6.5 million to 60.3 million

Largest Decreases:

Genesis Micro down 5.9 million to 4.6 million
Yahoo! down 5.1 million to 87.2 million
TDAmeritrade down 4.5 million to 10.6 million
Dell down 4.2 million to 43.3 million
Novell down 3.5 million to 11.7 million


Coverage Ratio:

SCO Group 261 days
Intergr Alarm 123 days
Bnk Ozarks 60 days
ZipRealty 58 days
ParkerVision 55 days

Sources: NASDAQ and WSJ