Short Squeeze

This is the latest entry in Benzinga's "Short Squeeze Potential" series. The article aims to make readers aware of a stock with short squeeze potential. Beyond Meat Inc (NASDAQ: BYND) shares have had a fabulous run since the company's May 2019 IPO. While investors look forward...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares rallied more than 19% Monday, setting a new all-time closing high of $780. Tesla's stock traded higher by another 7.3% to $837 Tuesday morning. It was trading under $300 just six months ago. While the massive move in Tesla's stock has left many investors...

Bellicum Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: BLCM) stock jumped more than 16 percent on Thursday after the company announced on Wednesday afternoon that the Food and Drug Administration lifted a clinical hold on the company’s BPX-501 study. Wells Fargo upgraded Bellicum to Outperform on Thursday,...

Petmed Express Inc (NASDAQ: PETS) is coming back down to earth Tuesday after a huge 18-percent gain to start the week. Investors were clearly impressed by the stock’s big earnings beat Monday, but the magnitude of Monday’s move suggests short covering may have played a role in the big...

On the surface, a fourth consecutive quarter of negative revenue growth and double-digit negative earnings growth may not seem like much to get excited about. However, when expectations are low enough, even that kind of performance can drive a major bullish move in a stock. On Thursday, GNC...

Battered retail stock J C Penney Company Inc. (NYSE: JCP) is up over 7 percent Thursday after the company announced it will be adding toy shops inside all its brick-and-mortar locations. JC Penney has doubled its online toy offerings in the past year in an effort “to compete with pure e-...

Clearly, the market couldn’t care less about J C Penney Company Inc (NYSE: JCP)’s Q1 earnings beat. Shares are down another 12 percent on Friday and are now down almost 20 percent in two days, pushing the stock under $5 per share for the first time since 2014. But before JC Penney bulls...

IMPINJ Inc (NASDAQ: PI) shares are up 8.3 percent Friday after the company reported Q1 revenue and earnings beats on Thursday. Impinj shares are reacting positively to the beat even though the company’s Q2 guidance came up well short of market expectations. Impinj’s post-earnings...

Much of the U.S. retail sector is struggling to compete with Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and other e-commerce competition in the digital age. With the U.S. unemployment rate at its lowest level in a decade, the U.S. retail sector lost 61,000 jobs in the past two months alone. Not surprisingly,...

GNC Holdings Inc (NYSE: GNC) short sellers did not get the news they were hoping for on Tuesday. The company reported a modest earnings beat and a huge revenue beat on EPS of $0.35 and revenue of $644.8 million. Quarterly revenue easily topped consensus analyst expectations of $627.4 million. GNC...

CARBO Ceramics Inc. (NYSE: CRR) shares are down 5.6 percent on Friday as traders are circulating a short thesis on the company that calls into question the Carbo’s aggressive cash burn ad guidance. Cash Burn CARBO reportedly burned $13 million in cash in the fourth quarter and expects its Q1...

GNC Holdings Inc (NYSE: GNC) shares are up nearly 3 percent Friday as traders circulate unconfirmed rumors that the company could be a takeover candidate. Benzinga Pro reports that the source of the rumors has a shaky track record in terms of accuracy, but trading action indicates that some traders...

Abercrombie & Fitch Co (NYSE: ANF) shareholders were treated to a nice surprise 7 percent gain on Thursday’s open after the company reported fairly lackluster Q4 earnings before the open. Abercrombie reported Q4 EPS of $0.71 on sales of $1.04 billion, short of consensus expectations of $0...

Stone Energy Corporation (NYSE: SGY) shares are trading higher by 300 percent on Wednesday after the company reported it has completed its financial restructuring. After a previous 10-to-1 reverse split in summer of 2016, the new restructuring will effectively result in another 5.67-to-1 reverse...

Federal National Mortgage Assctn Fnni Me (OTC: FNMA) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (OTC: FMCC) shareholders have been on quite a ride in recent weeks. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been in limbo for years as the courts and the government decide their fate. While both stocks got a big boost...