Nasdaq Short Interest October 2006

Short interest for stocks traded on The Nasdaq stock market for the period of October 13 compared to September 15, 2006.


Largest short interest


Applied Materials 161.4 million shares up 123.1 million
Sirius 142.4 million shares up 13.0 million
Level 3 102.6 million shares up 3.5 million
Microsoft 97.4 million shares up 22.8 million
Yahoo! 78.0 million shares down 9.3 million
Intel 76.6 million shares up 7.4 million
JDSU 76.1 million shares down 9.7 million
Charter 62.2 million shares down 3.4 million
Cisco 58.7 million shares down 3.7 million
Oracle 54.9 million shares down 5.4 million
JetBlue 51.7 million shares down 2.9 million
Comcast 49.1 milion shares up 2.8 million
eBay 47.3 million shares down 1.7 million
Amazon 44.3 million shares up .6 million
Symantec 40.9 million shares up .8 million
Dell 40.8 million shares down 2.5 million
Amgen 34.3 million shares up 8.3 million
Conexant 34.1 million shares up 4.3 million
XM 33.9 million shares up 3.7 million
Finisar 33.8 million shares up 2.0 million
Take Two 33.5 million shares down .6 million
Starbucks 30.3 million shares down 4.9 million
Brocade 30.0 million shares up 1.2 million
Sun 28.0 million shares down 4.7 million
Apple 27.8 million shares down 4.5 million

Largest Short Position Increases

Applied Materials up 123.1 million shares
Microsoft up 22.8 million shares
Sirius up 12.9 million shares
Amgen up 8.3 million shares
Intel up 7.4 million shares
Comcast up 7.4 million shares
Conexant up 4.3 million shares
XM up 3.7 million shares


Largest Short Position Decreases

JDSU down 9.7 million shares
Yahoo! down 9.3 million shares
Oracle down 5.4 million shares
UAL down 5.0 million shares
Starbucks down 4.9 million shares
Sun down 4.7 million shares
Apple down 4.5 million shares
Cisco down 3.7 million shares

Source: http://online.wsj.com/documents/shortint.htm