SHORT INTEREST IN VALLEY STOCKS
The table below lists the short interest in various Valley stocks.
In a short sale, an investor sells borrowed stock--in effect betting the price will drop--after which he can buy back the stock at a lower price and return the shares to the lender and pocket the difference. Of course, if the stock goes up in price, the short seller loses money.
Short interest is the number of shares that have been borrowed for short sales and not yet repurchased. Also listed is the average daily volume of stock traded in each company.
No. of shares of short interest Stock Industry as of 4/14 NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Foothill Group Financial services 255,901 Glenfed S&L; holding co. 100,586 Lockheed Aerospace 646,560 Newhall Land Real estate 154,023 Walt Disney Entertainment 1,962,958
AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE ATI Medical Medical equipment 366,300
OVER-THE-COUNTER MARKET Amgen Biotechnology 512,816 Comptr Memories Holding co. 57,082 Delphi Info Sys Software 76,762 HOH Water Tech Water Systems 6,314 Martin Lawrence Art galleries 92,885 Micropolis Disk drives 647,378 Traditional Inds Photofinishing 500,129 20th Century Inds Insurance 50,411
No. of shares Avg. daily of short interest trading Stock as of 3/15 % Chg volume NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Foothill Group 374,200 -32 5,171 Glenfed 142,392 -29 34,280 Lockheed 487,468 +33 413,290 Newhall Land 151,413 +2 14,752 Walt Disney 1,913,001 +3 286,909
AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE ATI Medical 357,600 +2 24,827
OVER-THE-COUNTER MARKET Amgen 585,229 -12 276,682 Comptr Memories 54,786 +4 27,585 Delphi Info Sys 73,960 +4 14,070 HOH Water Tech 33,404 -81 11,185 Martin Lawrence 67,969 +37 112,474 Micropolis 610,182 +6 104,305 Traditional Inds 579,280 -14 19,926 20th Century Inds 44,596 +13 47,007
Sources: New York, American stock exchanges; National Assn. of Securities Dealers
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