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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.

Banco Bradesco’s (BBD US) stock price has been cratering since mid-February, down 12%, as the Brazilian market has declined by 4.2%.

Banco Bradesco ADR (BBD US) short interest is $152 million; 13.83 million shares shorted; 0.41% of float; 0.30% stock borrow fee.

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (ANF US) announced increased sales for the sixth straight quarter and its stock price responded with over a 22% move in its stock price.

ANF short interest is $324 million; 15.17 million shares shorted; 23.31% of float; 0.30% stock borrow fee. ANF is the 7^th largest short in the Retail Apparel Sector.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA US) continues to be the largest worldwide short and makes up over a fifth of total HK\China short exposure. Other perennial large shorts in the region are Ping An Insurance (2318 HK), Tencent Holdings (700 HK) and JD.com (JD US) while relatively newer entries to the top ten are Iqiyi Inc (IQ US) and Meituan Duianping (3690 HK.)

Turtle Beach Corp (HEAR) short selling had been on a tear for most of September and only slowed down due to lack of lendable inventory to support short locates. HEAR shares shorted in nearly topped out and just over 8.4 million shares because there is very little stock left to borrow. There is still strong demand to short the stock and whatever scraps that are left to borrow are going at over 100% fee levels. HEAR shares shorted are up 26.4%, +1.8 million shares, in February and March ahead of today’s earnings report.

Short selling in Kohl’s Corp (KSS) has been active ahead of earnings that will be released later today with 846k of new shorts hitting the tape in March. Kohl’s has been a short target for most of the year, after a relatively quiet January short selling picked up in February and March. KSS shares shorted are now up 4.34 million shares for the year, up 18.32%.