{"id":48542,"date":"2015-05-28T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T12:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48542"},"modified":"2015-05-28T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T12:41:18","slug":"goldman-releases-list-of-most-commonly-shorted-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2015\/goldman-releases-list-of-most-commonly-shorted-stocks.html","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Releases List Of Most Commonly Shorted Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) &#8211; Goldman Sachs released its list of most commonly shorted stocks by the hedge funds that are clients of Goldman. The list was part of the Hedge Fund Trend Monitor that the company produces. As of March 31, the report shows these 10 stocks are the most commonly shorted with the company name, symbol and the value of the short position. <\/p>\n<p>1.\tAT&#038;T Inc. (NYSE: T), $11.1 billion<br \/>\n2.\tWalt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS) $4.5 billion<br \/>\n3.\tInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), $4.3 billion<br \/>\n4.\tVerizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), $3.7 billion<br \/>\n5.\tIntel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), $3.5 billion<br \/>\n6.\tKinder Morgan Inc (NYSE: KMI), $3.3 billion<br \/>\n7.\tExxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM), $3.2 billion<br \/>\n8.\tPfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), $3.0 billion<br \/>\n9.\tJohnson &#038; Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), $3.0 billion<br \/>\n10.\tDeere &#038; Company (NYSE: DE), $2.8 billion<\/p>\n<p>Should the market start to experience bearish period, individual investors could benefit from shorting the stocks as well. However, should the market continue to rise or should one of the stocks start to rally sharply, being short a stock that is highly shorted by hedge funds could be a dangerous game. If there is a short-squeeze rally that sends the stock sharply higher, an individual investor that isn\u2019t well informed could get burned.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Pendergraft<br \/>\nResearch Analyst<br \/>\nHedgeCoVest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCoVest.Com) &#8211; Goldman Sachs released its list of most commonly shorted stocks by the hedge funds that are clients of Goldman. The list was part of the Hedge Fund Trend Monitor that the company produces. As of March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16042,16,3,16048],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-performance-2","category-hedgeco-networks-press-releases","category-hedgeco-news","category-hedgecovest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48545,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48542\/revisions\/48545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}