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  2. Short interest ratio - Wikipedia

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    The short interest ratio (also called days-to-cover ratio) [1] represents the number of days it takes short sellers on average to cover their positions, that is repurchase all of the borrowed shares. It is calculated by dividing the number of shares sold short by the average daily trading volume, generally over the last 30 trading days.

  3. What is short interest? - AOL

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    Short interest can reflect general market sentiment toward a stock by indicating the number of shares sold short that remain outstanding. When measured it can be a useful but imperfect indicator ...

  4. Short (finance) - Wikipedia

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    Stock exchanges such as the NYSE or the NASDAQ typically report the "short interest" of a stock, which gives the number of shares that have been legally sold short as a percent of the total float. Alternatively, these can also be expressed as the short interest ratio , which is the number of shares legally sold short as a multiple of the ...

  5. Stock valuation - Wikipedia

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    Stock valuation is the method of calculating theoretical values of companies and their stocks.The main use of these methods is to predict future market prices, or more generally, potential market prices, and thus to profit from price movement – stocks that are judged undervalued (with respect to their theoretical value) are bought, while stocks that are judged overvalued are sold, in the ...

  6. Long position vs. short position: What’s the difference in ...

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    A short seller borrows stock from a broker and sells that into the market. Later the investor expects to repurchase the stock at a lower price, pocketing the difference between the sell and buy ...

  7. Public float - Wikipedia

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    The float is calculated by subtracting the locked-in shares from outstanding shares. For example, a company may have 10 million outstanding shares, with 3 million of them in a locked-in position; this company's float would be 7 million (multiplied by the share price). Stocks with smaller floats tend to be more volatile than those with larger ...

  8. What is interest? Definition, how it works and examples - AOL

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    For example, a five-year loan of $1,000 with simple interest of 5 percent per year would require $1,250 over the life of the loan ($1,000 principal and $250 in interest).

  9. Short squeeze - Wikipedia

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    In the stock market, a short squeeze is a rapid increase in the price of a stock owing primarily to an excess of short selling of a stock rather than underlying fundamentals. A short squeeze occurs when demand has increased relative to supply because short sellers have to buy stock to cover their short positions.