{"id":63014,"date":"2023-09-19T12:19:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T16:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/markets\/tesla-is-the-most-shorted-car-stock-rivian-ford-are-numbers-two-and-three\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T12:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T16:19:04","slug":"tesla-is-the-most-shorted-car-stock-rivian-ford-are-numbers-two-and-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=63014","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Is the Most Shorted Car Stock. Rivian, Ford Are Numbers Two and Three."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UAW is asking
\n Ford Motor
\n and the other two auto makers with roots in Detroit for big pay increases and a four-day work week. The requests threaten to upend industry cost structures, giving non-unionized electric vehicle makers a leg up. <\/p>\n

Still, EV leader
\n Tesla
\n is the most heavily shorted automotive stock by a mile. <\/p>\n

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A new report from short-selling research firm S3 Partners shows how much money is being bet against automotive stocks. <\/p>\n

Short sellers will borrow stock they do not own and sell it, hoping the price declines and they can buy it back later at a lower price. A short sale is a bearish bet. <\/p>\n

Short sellers have borrowed and sold Tesla (ticker: TSLA) stock worth some $22 billion, according to S3. That\u2019s about 10 times the amount of the second most heavily shorted car stock,
\n Rivian Automotive
\n (RIVN). Ford (F) is the third most heavily shorted with $1.9 billion borrowed and sold by the bears. <\/p>\n

The other two Detroit-Three auto makers, General Motors (GM) and
\n Stellantis
\n (STLA), check in at number seven and 10 on the list of most shorted. <\/p>\n

Why Tesla is favored as a short by Bears isn\u2019t a mystery. Shares trade for about 58 times estimated 2024 earnings. The
\n S&P 500
\n tradies for about 18.4 times. Ford trades for about 6.6 times. High valuations, both on an absolute basis and relative to other companies in an industry, are often the starting place for bearish investors. <\/p>\n

The total amount of money borrowed and sold is one measure of short-selling activity. It\u2019s a good one. It represents how much short sellers have at risk. Another measure is the amount of stock sold short relative to the total amount of shares available for trading. That number is typically referred to as short interest. <\/p>\n

Almost 3% of Tesla stock available for trading is sold short. The average short interest for a stock in the S&P 500 is around 2%. Tesla\u2019s short interest isn\u2019t much above average, but it can\u2019t really ever be all that high. Tesla\u2019s market capitalization is roughly $830 billion. Short sellers don\u2019t have that much capital available. <\/p>\n

The short interest for Ford, GM, and Stellantis is about 4%, 2%, and 2%, respectively. Even with the UAW strike, the average short interest is not that high for traditional auto maker stocks. <\/p>\n

Short interest for EV startups is the highest among car stocks. The short interest for
\n Fisker
\n (FSR) is 43%. That\u2019s the highest according to S3.
\n Lucid
\n (LCID) is number two on that metric with short interest at 23%.
\n Nikola
\n (NKLA) and Rivain come in at about 21% and 13%, respectively. <\/p>\n

Fisker, Lucid, Nikola, and Rivian don\u2019t make money yet and don\u2019t generate free cash flow. Bearish investors\u2019 positioning shows they don\u2019t believe all EV start-ups will make it. <\/p>\n

High short interest can introduce a lot of trading volatility. A short squeeze is essentially when all the short sellers rush to cover bearish bets all at once, taking a stock price up much higher than what might be expected based on fundamentals alone. <\/p>\n

Nikola stock, for instance, rose about 34% on Monday while the
\n Nasdaq Composite
\n was flat and the S&P 500 rose just 0.1%. What\u2019s more, shares are up about 80% over the past five days. Oer that span, the company announced a new COO and said it would start delivering its fuel cell-powered trucks in a few weeks. Both are positive things, but 80% is a big move. <\/p>\n

Write to Al Root at allen.root@dowjones.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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