Apple and MicroStrategy are one of the shortest stocks
In February, technology shares consisted of eight of the 10 most paragraphs.
According to Hazeltree, a financial data company, there was a lot of technology stocks last month by hedge funds and alternative investors.
Hazeltree’s SHORDSIDE CROWDEDNESS report in February 2025, apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Micron (NASDAQ: MU) and Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) are five or short. Listed one of the large American stocks. In addition, eight of the 10 shortest stocks came from the technical sector.
When developing a monthly list, Hazeltree investigates securities, which are short at the highest rate of funds. We track 15,000 global stocks supplied from anonymized data within 700 asset manager funds. Stocks are rated at 1-99, and 99 represents stocks with the highest percentage of funds.
In February, Energy Stock Chevron (NYSE: CVX) was actually the most paragraph of the largest large cap name, and the crowded score was 99. The Super Micro Computer deals with internal control issues, and the threat of listing is followed by 91. Super Micro Computer also ranked second in January.
Supermicro also had the highest supply rate of 53.7%. The ISU ratio is an indicator of how “hot” is security in terms of demand dynamics.
Since then, Apple, Micron, Fintech Sofi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) and Capital ONE (NYSE: COF) scored 88 points.
The rest of the list includes IBM (NYSE: IBM), Microchip Technology (NASDAQ: MCHP), Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) and major bitcoin holder fine straight (NASDAQ: MSTR) It is configured. They each received 85 points.
Tough time for technology
The richness of technology stocks on the list reflects the difficult market environment in this sector, and NASDAQ composite falls 8.5% YTD.
Tim Smith, executive director of Hazeltree’s Data Insights, said, “According to the Crowdedness Report analysis in February, the US technical sector continued to see the dismissal with the unemployment rate and the contract IT market with a lower unemployment rate than last year. As we re -evaluate the talent strategy to face the situation, we point out the transition market, not collapse. Tech remained the highest goal of the short seller of the Americas for three consecutive months, and eight of the top 10 large securities remained. “
DAYFORCE (NYSE: DAY) was the shortest stock with 99 scores, and Shift4 Payments (NYSE: FOUR) had the highest institutional use rating with 35.9%.
In small categories, Wolfspeed (NYSE: WOLF) remains the most crowded security for seven consecutive months, and 99 points are 99 points, 85.9%, the highest ISU grade.
In Europe, Kering SA and H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB were the most paragraphs with 99 points. This is the second consecutive month of the kering on the list. H & M has the highest ISU score at 76.3%.
In the intermediate cap category, Kingfisher PLC was the most crowded securities with 99 points with the semiconductor industry NV and delivery hero SE. Carl Zeiss Meditec AG was 51.2%, the highest ISU score.
Lastly, Alphawave IP Group PLC was the most crowded security with 99 points for three consecutive months. Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC recorded 74.1%of institutional use rating.
