{"id":175922,"date":"2021-06-09T10:34:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T17:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=175922"},"modified":"2021-06-09T10:51:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T17:51:21","slug":"skillz-short-interest-makes-it-prime-squeeze-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/skillz-short-interest-makes-it-prime-squeeze-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Skillz Stock Not Yet in AMC, GameStop Territory, But Still Prime Short Squeeze Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skillz (NYSE:SKLZ) hasn’t yet reached the rarefied air of meme stocks such as GameStop (NYSE:GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE:AMC). But the mobile games platform provider has some of the same ingredients that drove those names to big gains and notoriety.<\/p>\n

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The WallStreetBets logo. Skillz may join the ranks of heavily shorted meme stocks. (Image: MarketWatch<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Skillz is heavily shorted and it’s starting to rally. Last week, the company said it’s acquiring<\/a> online advertising firm Aarki for $150 million. Over that period, the shares are higher by nearly 36 percent, though most of those gains were confined to a 27 percent pop last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

That extends Skillz stock’s gain to almost 47 percent over the past month — good for one of the best performances in the gaming equity complex over that span, and perhaps enough to get bearish traders jittery about their positions.<\/p>\n

In fact, Skillz is highlighted as a prime candidate for a short squeeze. That’s the scenario when a heavily shorted stock rallies, forcing bearish traders to cover positions — squeezing them out — thereby sending the stock higher.<\/p>\n

Recent data from short interest analytics provider S3 Partners indicates Skillz is among 10 stocks scoring a perfect 10 on the firm’s \u201cSqueeze Score\u201d metric in terms of short squeeze candidacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Skillz Stock Meme Comparisons<\/h2>\n

The phrase \u201cmeme stock\u201d was born from the Reddit forum WallStreetBets<\/a>, or WSB in social media lingo, and the impact that group of rebellious retail traders is having on stocks such as GameStop and, more recently, AMC.<\/p>\n

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The rallies in the previously moribund video game retailer and downtrodden movie chain operator stoked speculation about what stocks the WallStreetBets cartel will focus on next<\/a>. For its part, Skillz has some catching up to do to enter the pantheon of the group’s favorite names. As just two examples, AMC is up a staggering 478 percent over the past month, while Clover Health Investments (NASDAQ:CLOV) — another name on the S3 list — nearly tripled over the past week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Still, Skillz fits the bill as a name traders could target in hopes of spurring a short squeeze. As of May 14, 73.18 million shares of the gaming company, nearly 31 percent of its float, were on loan to bearish traders, according to Dow Jones data.<\/p>\n

Other Similarities<\/h2>\n

Besides the obvious of elevated short interest, Skillz shares something else in common with several of the names on the S3 list: It came to market via a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).<\/p>\n

That’s the case with Clover Health, Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE), and Nikola (NASDAQ:NKLA). Meaning that when Skillz is included, four of the 10 short squeeze candidates highlighted by S3 became public companies via blank-check deals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While SPACs were all the rage on Wall Street and among retail investors last year and into the early part of 2021, the market has cooled considerably<\/a> for these transactions. That’s because many of the companies born out of blank-check deals debuted with allegedly weak financials, making them ideal targets for short sellers.<\/p>\n

How all this shakes out for Skillz, and if it becomes a true meme stock remains to be seen. But the recent momentum has the shares flirting with $25 for the first time in nearly three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skillz (NYSE:SKLZ) hasn’t yet reached the rarefied air of meme stocks such as GameStop (NYSE:GME) and AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE:AMC). But the mobile games platform provider has some of the same ingredients that drove those names to big gains and notoriety. Skillz is heavily shorted and it’s starting to rally. 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