The increased risks of a potential recession have continued to gain momentum over the last several months, and short sellers have taken note, according to the latest Hazeltree May 2025 Shortside Crowd...
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Lifestyle and consumer-facing brands dominate Hazeltree’s most crowded shortlist across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC
NEW YORK & LONDON: The increased risks of a potential recession have continued to gain momentum over the last several months, and short sellers have taken note, according to the latest Hazeltree May 2025 Shortside Crowdedness Report. Major consumer brands, including half of the top-10 most crowded shorts in the Americas, were identified by Hazeltree, a leader in active treasury and intelligent operations technology for the alternative asset industry, alongside notable companies such as Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., Chevron Corporation, Marriott International, Inc., Charter Communications, and Dell Technologies Inc. Overseas, luxury goods fashion conglomerates Kering S.A. and LVMH were among the most crowded shorts in EMEA, with a score of 99, followed by consumer lifestyle sporting goods and leisure lifestyle brands ANTA Sports Products Limited and Oriental Land Co., Ltd., which ranked among the top crowded shorts in APAC.
The report is a monthly listing of the top 10 most crowded shorted securities in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions, categorized by large-, mid-, and small-cap ranges. Hazeltree compiles data from its proprietary securities finance platform data, which tracks approximately 15,000 global equities across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. The data, available to select clients, is aggregated and anonymized from the contributing Hazeltree community, which comprises approximately 700 asset management funds. The firm assigns securities a Hazeltree Crowdedness Score, a key metric that grades securities on a scale of 1 to 99, with 99 representing the highest concentration of shorting activity. This scoring highlights securities most targeted by investors and reflects key supply-demand dynamics.
“We witnessed an extension of consumer spending taking root across the globe as major lifestyle brands shot to the top of Hazeltree’s most crowded shorts across companies focused on entertainment, energy, fashion, travel, electronics, and more,” said Tim Smith, Managing Director of Data Insights at Hazeltree. “In the Americas, we also noticed large-cap stocks turning back toward tech, with five out of the most crowded shorts from four in April. Mid-cap company MARA Holdings, Inc. - the digital asset crypto mining company - also is a noteworthy standout and had an unusually high institutional supply utilization at 72.48% with the increasing investing fervor around Bitcoin.”
Highlights from the May 2025 report include:
Americas
EMEA
APAC
To view Hazeltree’s May 2025 Shortside Crowdedness Report and past reports, click here.
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Hazeltree Shortside Crowdedness Report Methodology
The Shortside Crowdedness Report tracks shorting activity in three different metrics:
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