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Why is short interest in Best Buy less than its peers? What is the short interest in consumer electronics retailer Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) ahead of its second-quarter financial results on August 30? On the last trading day, Best Buy had roughly 12 million shares in short interest, reflecting 5.97% of its outstanding shares. By midday Aug. 19, 5.5 million Best Buy shares are available to be shorted, according to management consulting company Fintel. BBY stock dipped nearly 4% at close of trading Aug. 19 and had another marginal decline at the start of this week. The company’s stock was almost in the green last week, after peaking at $86.35 on Tuesday, and creating a new multi-month high. However, BBY eventually closed lower on the week thanks in part to the aforementioned 4% drop. Keeping off the most shorted list Despite the challenges it had to endure, Best Buy remains absent from the list of most shorted stocks. The list of stocks on the most-shorted list in August, include Intercept Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ICPT), Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY), MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), WeWork (NYSE: WE), Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST), and Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND). All the above stocks have short interest above 35.00% of its outstanding shares. Best Buy's peer group average for short interest as a percentage of float is 25.57%, which means it has far less short interest than most of its peers. Second-quarter outlook Like other retailers, the company is sailing in murky waters given current macroeconomic conditions. High inflation rate, interest hikes and even energy cost could add more challenges to these companies. For Best Buy, some think the company's revenue and profitability are on-track to recovery after record-lows in the first quarter, setting the stage for a long-term rebound after bottoming in July. However, Best Buy, may not be so bullish in its own outlook. BBY is slated to announce second-quarter results on August 30 and it expects to report a roughly 13% decline in comparable sales and an approximately 7.5% hike in revenue compared with the pre-pandemic second quarter of fiscal-year 2022. Best Buy CEO Corie Barry said, "as high inflation has continued and consumer sentiment has deteriorated, customer demand within the consumer electronics industry has softened even further, leading to Q2 financial results below the expectations we shared in May." The company also plans to suspend share buybacks but assured the payment of quarterly dividends.
NYSE:BBY
by BlackBull_Markets
How To Play The Markets To The DownsideI’m Markus Heitkoetter and I’ve been an active trader for over 20 years. I often see people who start trading and expect their accounts to explode, based on promises and hype they see in ads and e-mails. They start trading and realize it doesn’t work this way. The purpose of these articles is to show you the trading strategies and tools that I personally use to trade my own account so that you can grow your own account systematically. Real money…real trades. How can you make money in a market that is going down? Today I want to show you two strategies on how to do this. Shorting A Stock The first strategy is shorting a stock. So what does this mean and how does it work? Well, it means that you can sell a stock right now even if you don’t own it, and then buy it back later at a cheaper price. This is how it works. So first there is your broker, then there’s you who wants to participate and make money in a falling market. Let’s use Apple AAPL as an example. Let us pretend AAPL is currently trading at $119 & we believe that AAPL actually might go down again to $110. You can make money betting against AAPL in a falling market, and here’s how it works. Now, you want to sell AAPL but you don’t have the shares just yet. So what you would do is you borrow shares from your broker. So your broker is actually lending you 100 shares of Apple, or at least, we’ll use 100 shares for this example. Now, the price at this point doesn’t matter. He’s just giving you the shares and says, “OK, you need to give me back these shares later on.” And he is actually reserving some money from your trading account to make sure that you really give it back to him. Now, you have 100 shares, and you can do with these 100 shares pretty much whatever you want. So in this example, you would sell them. So you sell AAPL , 100 shares of them, at the current price of $119 because you believe that AAPL will go down. So how exactly do you make money? Let’s say after a few days, AAPL , in fact, does drop down to $110. Here’s what happens next. Now you are buying back AAPL at $110. So how much money do you make? If you sold AAPL for $119 and you’re now buying it back at $110, you’re making $9 per share, multiplied by 100 shares. This comes to $900 in profit. Now that you have the shares back, you, of course, have to give them back to the broker. Remember, the broker lent you the shares, so you have to give them back those 100 shares of AAPL , and when you do, the broker releases the money that they held, kind of in escrow, to make sure that you are getting the money back. Now, the beautiful thing is this is all going on in the background. This is what it would look like on a trading platform. So now, I want to trade AAPL , and I want to just sell 100 shares of AAPL . So all I do here is, it says already short minus 100 and I would sell them at the current price of $119.35. So I click review and send. And the broker is requesting almost $6,000 from me. And this $6,000 is basically the money that he’s holding in escrow to say, “All right, Markus, you have to give me back the shares.” And it is that easy. And now if I click on “Send Order,” I would sell the shares. So this is the first way because I told you that I’ll give you two strategies of how to benefit from a falling market. So this was strategy number one, shorting a stock. Buying A Put Option Now, let’s move on to strategy number two. You would buy a put option. “Put” means that you have the right to sell a stock at the strike price. So, again, we will be using the same example of AAPL that we used for the first strategy. So as I just said, we’re pretending AAPL right now is trading at around $119 and we believe that AAPL will go down to $110. This is how this would work. So this is where we are looking at an AAPL put, let’s say here, AAPL put of 119, and it is trading at around $1.80. So here is what exactly we would do. We would buy a put for $1.80. Now, this put gives us the right to sell AAPL for $119. Now, if AAPL really goes all the way down to $100, see same deal here, we actually would make $9 per stock. However, we have to deduct the premium that we paid for the option, which is $1.80. So this means here we are making $7.20 per share ($9 — $1.80). If we would trade one option, one option controls 100 shares, so this means that we are making $720 total. Which Strategy Should You Use? Now, the main difference between these two strategies is that, for strategy number two buying a put, you don’t need as much money. Remember when I went to my trading platform earlier and wanted to sell AAPL 100 shares, that my broker was reserving around $6,000 dollars in my account? Now keep this in mind. According to what my trading platform is telling me, if I want to buy this option, it would only cost me $180. So as you can see, huge difference. In the one case, the broker is reserving $6,000 with the possibility of making $900. For strategy two, buying a put, your broker is only requesting $180 and that is also the maximum amount that you can lose, and you can make possibly $720 here. Summary So this is how you can make money in a falling market. Now, very important, strategy number one, where you’re just shorting the stock and where the broker is lending you the stock, you cannot do that in a retirement account. But strategy number two, buying a put, you CAN do in a retirement account, and you can do this for any stock. Now, you might actually be bullish on AAPL , but if you look at some other stocks right now that we're in a downtrend, for example, ZM , if you say, “Oh my gosh, Zoom is crazy, during the pandemic here,” it went from, what? $50 to $500? You could think, “This is absolutely overvalued and I believe that Zoom will go down to $300” you can use one of these strategies. So you see that all these stocks that, during the pandemic benefited a lot, could actually move lower, this is how you can make money in a falling market. So now you know two strategies how to make money in a falling market, how to bet on a stock that is going down.
NASDAQ:AAPLEducation
by rockwelltrading
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TECK potential short Breakout after Double TopOur B.I.T.S (Breakout Intelligent Breakout Signals) Indicator for TradingView has a signal short on $TECK. We have completed a double top on the Daily timeframe and our automated short signal is below the recent low pivot. So we are combining a traditional duoble top short setup with our strong automated breakout signal from our indicator suite to go short TECK. Short Entry at $15.56 with Stop loss at 16.47, with the 4 target zones printed on the chart by our B.I.T.S indicator. Look to Swing this short trade over into next week, depending on momentum.
NYSE:TECKShort
by xBratSoftwareSolutions