Allied Healthcare Products (AHPI) Short Interest Ratio & Short Volume

Short interest is the volume of Allied Healthcare Products shares that have been sold short but have not yet been closed out or covered. As of January 31st, traders have sold 41,900 shares of AHPI short. 1.61% of Allied Healthcare Products' shares are currently sold short. Learn More on Allied Healthcare Products' current short interest.

Companies that have a short interest as a percentage of float below 10% indicates positive investor sentiment and few short sellers. Stocks with a short interest percentage above 10% is considered high, suggesting some investors are pessimistic about the stock. Companies with a short interest percentage of 20% or more indicates widespread negative sentiment. 1.61% of Allied Healthcare Products' floating shares are currently sold short.

Allied Healthcare Products saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totaling 41,900 shares, an increase of 46.0% from the previous total of 28,700 shares. Changes in short volume can be used to identify positive and negative investor sentiment. Investors that short sell a stock are betting that its price will decline in the future. An increase in short sale volume suggests bearish (negative) sentiment among investors. A decrease on short sale volume suggests bullish (positive) sentiment.

Allied Healthcare Products currently has issued a total of 4,013,000 shares. Some of Allied Healthcare Products' outstanding shares are available for trading, while others are subject to various restrictions. The public float, also referred to as floating shares or "the float", are shares that publicly owned, unrestricted and available to trade on the open market. Allied Healthcare Products currently has a public float of 2,610,000 shares.

1.61% of Allied Healthcare Products' shares are currently sold short. Here is how the short interest of companies in the industry of "medical equipment" compare to Allied Healthcare Products: GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (1.80%), Koninklijke Philips (0.26%), Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (3.18%), Smith & Nephew plc (0.26%), Penumbra, Inc. (4.29%), Solventum Co. (3.17%), Stevanato Group S.p.A. (6.27%), and Glaukos Co. (6.14%).

As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: Occidental Petroleum Co. ($3.19 billion), Snowflake Inc. ($2.35 billion), T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. ($2.14 billion), Coinbase Global, Inc. ($2.14 billion), Paramount Global ($1.99 billion), Etsy, Inc. ($1.76 billion), Lucid Group, Inc. ($1.70 billion), Wayfair Inc. ($1.63 billion), Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. ($1.61 billion), and CarMax, Inc. ($1.60 billion). View all of the most shorted stocks.

Short selling AHPI is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from Allied Healthcare Products as its price is falling. To short a stock, an investor borrows shares, sells them and buys the shares back on the public market later to return it to the lender. Short sellers are betting that a stock will decline in price. If the stock does drop after selling, the short seller buys it back at a lower price and returns it to the lender. The difference between the sell price and the buy price is the trader's profit.

A short squeeze for Allied Healthcare Products occurs when it has a large amount of short interest and its stock appreciates in price. This forces short sellers to cover their short interest positions by buying actual shares of AHPI, which in turn drives the price of the stock up even further.

Short interest is typically published by a stock exchange once per month. However, NASDAQ publishes a report for U.S. stocks, including AHPI, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is January, 31 2023.