Individual investors have found their next short-squeeze target in a little-known software company
Individual investors have found their next short-squeeze target in little-known software company Support.com Inc.
Shares of the company have nearly tripled in the past week, pushing the stock on Monday to trade around $31. That gives Support.com, a technical- and customer-support provider, a 19% gain for the day and a more than 1,300% jump for the year. Some retail traders are piling into Support.com, scooping up shares and placing bullish wagers on the stock. One of the reasons why: Support.com has elevated interest from bearish investors known as short sellers. Investors on social-media platforms have recently discussed the potential for setting up a short squeeze.
Short sellers are investors who bet against a company by borrowing shares and selling them, hoping they can buy them back later at a lower price. But these short sellers can be burned by such wagers when the stock rises. They are then forced to buy back stock to try to limit their losses. Buying more stock can put further pressure on the stock price in what is known as short squeeze.
This year, individual investors have crowded into companies with elevated levels of short-selling activity, as part of a larger strategy to reap big gains and turn upside down a market that many say has long been stacked against them. More than 20 million new retail brokerage accounts are estimated to have been created since the start of 2020, according to JMP Securities.
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