Monday, May 2, 2011

Short Targets: 5 Chinese Stocks Witnessing Large Spikes in Short Interest

Kapitall submits:

With a recent slew of China-based companies being hit with fraud allegations, we thought it would be interesting to find today?s most shorted Chinese stocks.

In this screen we only included stocks that have seen an increase in shares shorted representing at least 2% of share float, signaling a definitive change in outlook. The final list of five is below.

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Short sellers have largely turned bearish on these names ? what do you think of them? Use this list as a starting-off point for your own analysis into Chinese investments.

List sorted by increase in shares shorted as a percent of share float.

1. LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (
LDK): Semiconductor Industry. Market cap of $1.59B. Shares shorted have increased from 15.93M to 21.93M month-over-month, which is a change representing 10.55% of a 56.88M share float. This is a risky stock that is significantly more volatile than


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