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Love it or hate it, Medicare insurance technology company Clover Health Investments Corp (NASDAQ:CLOV) is the latest Reddit short squeeze stock ripping higher this week.
The stock gained 86% on heavy volume Tuesday as a massive short squeeze continued, and S3 Partners analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky said Clover short sellers are racking up major losses.
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What Happened? Since completing its highly anticipated SPAC merger back in January, Clover was a major disappointment for investors from day one.
In fact, the stock spent much of the last three months trading below $10 per share. In May, Clover reported just 18% revenue growth in the first quarter and a net loss of $48.4 million.
Despite these underwhelming numbers, Clover shares have skyrocketed more than 127% in the last month, driven in large part by a spectacular short squeeze.
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On Tuesday, Dusaniwsky said Clover still has $585 million in short interest. Dusaniwsky estimates Clover’s short percent of float at 43.5%, making it one of the most heavily shorted stocks in the market. Year-to-date in 2021, Dusaniwsky said Clover short sellers have already endured a 210% loss on their positions.
In addition to daily hammering in the open market, Dusaniwsky said Clover short sellers are paying a 2% stock borrow fee.
What’s Next? Dusaniwsky said Clover short sellers have been willing to weather the storm so far this week. Despite a $502-million loss on Tuesday alone, Clover’s short interest has increased by 4.5 million shares in the last week.
“Short sellers look to be shorting into a rising market and an overheated stock, looking for a pullback off of these elevated levels. But shorting into a rising market produces mark-to-market losses, and today’s price spike has resulted in big red numbers for short sellers,” Dusaniwsky said.
Benzinga’s Take: Traders should be extremely careful trying to time the squeeze and any potential pullback. Short squeezes are notoriously volatile and unpredictable, even to some of the most experienced stock traders.
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