Amber Road (AMBR) Short Interest Ratio & Short Volume

Short interest is the volume of Amber Road shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. As of June 15th, investors have sold 139,600 shares of AMBR short. 0.56% of Amber Road's shares are currently sold short. Learn More on Amber Road's 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. 0.56% of Amber Road's floating shares are currently sold short.

Amber Road saw a decrease in short interest during the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 139,600 shares, a decrease of 22.2% from the previous total of 179,500 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.

Amber Road currently has issued a total of 29,020,000 shares. Some of Amber Road's 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. Amber Road currently has a public float of 24,900,000 shares.

0.56% of Amber Road's shares are currently sold short. Here is how the short interest of companies in the sector of "computer and technology" compare to Amber Road: Backblaze, Inc. (4.71%), BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. (6.98%), American Software, Inc. (0.94%), MiX Telematics Limited (0.04%), Innovid Corp. (0.38%), Porch Group, Inc. (11.95%), Bandwidth Inc. (5.18%), 3D Systems Co. (7.11%), Cerence Inc. (17.54%), Materialise NV (0.14%),

As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: Harris Co. ($2.46 billion), and Multi-Color Co. ($119.41 million). View all of the most shorted stocks.

Short selling AMBR is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from Amber Road 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 Amber Road occurs when it has a large amount of short interest and its stock increases in price. This forces short sellers to cover their short interest positions by buying actual shares of AMBR, 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 AMBR, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is June, 15 2019.