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There are 52 domestic stocks with a stock borrow cost greater than 10% fee and total short interest greater than $25 million. These are stocks which have a greater chance of a short squeeze if stock loan supply gets tight; stock borrow rates negatively impact net of financing expected Alpha; mark-to-market losses mount if the security rallies; or recalls start hitting the street. Using the Screening Tool in the S3 App, you can access this data on a daily basis on your own.

Beyond Meat Inc (BYND) reported mixed 2^nd Quarter results with earnings of -$0.24/share, missing expectations, but Sales of $67.3 million beating expectations. The biggest news on the call was the announcement of a secondary offering of 3 million shares from existing investors and 250 thousand shares from the company. BYND investors will be able to cash in on the company’s nearly fourfold rise in its stock price ahead of their November lockup period expiration and Beyond Meat Inc. will be able to raise cash for operational purposes.

Short sellers have been active in several stocks that have high short interest relative to their float. Stock borrow rates are climbing, recalls are increasing and lendable supply is beginning to dwindle in stocks like DDS, XON, HEAR, AXDX and BYND.

We are seeing active short selling in Canada Goose Holdings (GOOS) today with the stock down 25% on news that fourth quarter revenues of $115.52 million missed analysts’ expectations.

GOOS short interest is $406 million; 8.29 million shares; 14.13% of float; 0.87% stock borrow fee.

Beyond Meat Inc’s (BYND) stock price has increased by 244% since its May IPO and short sellers, most of whom entered their trades after BYND’s initial pop to $70, are down 20%. Short sellers had been very active immediately after BYND’s IPO but recently been relatively quiet with shares shorted increasing by only 838 thousand shares, +$67 million, over the last week.

We’ve just updated our UBER short interest numbers:

UBER short interest is $846 million; 21.18 million shares shorted; 11.77% of float; stock borrow rate of 2.50% fee remains relatively cheap for an IPO with this size and buzz.

With Lyft, Inc’s (LYFT) stock price closing below its IPO price for two days in a row, short sellers had gone into overdrive over the last three trading days and shorted over 38% of its 32.5 million share float. LYFT short interest is $856 million with 12.4 million shares shorted. At 38.19%, LYFT’s Short Interest as a % of Float is the 27^th largest domestic stock among companies with greater than $50 million worth of Short Interest.

Shares of Yeti Holdings Inc. (YETI US) are up 97% YTD and 33% from the most recent earnings call (2/14).  The rise in share price was bolstered by strong Q4 sales as well as comments on Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS) earnings report citing strong demand for YETI’s products.