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These Are the Stocks Wall Street Is Betting Against the Most

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. The supplied source only contains the heatmap headline and ticker list, without the underlying short-interest percentages or ranking data. I can write the story accurately from that limited information, but I would not invent figures. A group of heavily shorted stocks is drawing renewed attention as investors track companies facing elevated bearish positioning, with Wolfspeed (NYSE:WOLF), Purple Innovation (NASDAQ:PRPL), Recursion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:RXRX) and Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) among the names highlighted in a recent short-interest heatmap. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 2 Warning Sign with WOLF. Is WOLF fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. The list also includes BigBear.ai (NYSE:BBAI), Wendy's (WEN), Virgin Galactic (SPCE), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) and several other companies with notable short interest. The data provides a snapshot of stocks where investors betting against shares have built relatively large positions. Other names featured include Canadian Solar (CSIQ), Medical Properties Trust (MPT), Sunrun (RUN), Quantum Computing (QUBT), Beyond Meat (BYND), Asana (ASAN), UiPath (NYSE:PATH), Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) and NNE. Heavy short interest can increase volatility because bearish investors may need to buy shares to close positions if prices rise. At the same time, elevated short positioning does not by itself indicate that a stock is likely to decline. View Comments

Tesla Just Keeps Crashing: One of Wall Street’s Most Outspoken Names Sees 80% Gains Anyway

Quick Read Dan Ives assigns Tesla a $600 target by valuing it as an AI-robotics company, despite a 38% Q2 EPS miss and negative free cash flow. GM raised full-year EPS guidance and holds 22 of 28 Buy ratings, while RIVN's R2 launch remains the key catalyst for its 17% upside. Tesla's forward P/E of 169 and 1.4% operating margin leave little room for error. The key signal to watch is whether the company can sustain even one quarter of margin stabilization. It sounds nuts, but SoFi1 is giving new Active Invest users up to $3,000 in stock for a limited time, and all it takes is a $50 deposit to get started.2 See for yourself (Sponsor) Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) currently trades at $332.81, while Wall Street's consensus price target sits at $396.62, implying roughly 19% of upside if analysts are right.2023 Getty Images / Getty Images News via Getty Images Wedbush's Dan Ives carries a Street-high $600 price target on the stock, implying about 80% in potential gains. His thesis treats Tesla as an AI and robotics company that happens to build cars. Tesla's core business remains electric vehicles, energy storage, and autonomous driving software. Wall Street is watching because near-term financials have deteriorated sharply while management pours cash into Robotaxi, Optimus, and AI infrastructure. The Q2 Miss That Reset the Narrative Tesla posted non-GAAP EPS of $0.33 against a $0.5367 estimate, missing expectations by 38.51%, while revenue of $28.24 billion beat by 7.1%. Operating expenses jumped 47% year over year to $4.35 billion, capex surged 141.81% to $5.79 billion, and free cash flow flipped to negative $1.09 billion. Operating margin collapsed to 1.4%. Record deliveries of 480,126 vehicles and a 56% jump in FSD subscriptions to 1.48 million could not offset the profit shock. Tesla is down 18.38% over the past month, trading below both its 50-day moving average of $378.22 and its 200-day moving average of $408.24. Recent recalls tied to excessively bright headlights on more than 20,000 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles and Autopilot scrutiny have kept sentiment defensive. SoFi Active Invest is offering a limited-time promotion. Open an account, fund it with $50 or more, and you could receive up to $3,000 in complimentary stock for Active Invest accounts. See for yourself by clicking here now. (Sponsor) Why the Bull Case Just Got Louder Analysts have not folded because the spending they dislike funds AI, autonomous software, and robotics. Ives applies a tech-like multiple of roughly 214x estimated 2026 EPS to build his $600 target, projecting a $2 trillion to $3 trillion market cap as those businesses scale. Story Continues Robotaxi has expanded to seven US metros including Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa. Cybercab production started at Gigafactory Texas, Optimus lines are being installed at Fremont targeting 2026 output, and FSD attach rate has cleared 55% of new North American deliveries. Morgan Stanley is more cautious but argues Tesla needs tangible proof of the Robotaxi flywheel before conviction returns. Of 47 analysts covering Tesla, 23 rate it Buy or Strong Buy, 18 rate it Hold, and 6 rate it Sell or Strong Sell. Recent activity has been reiterations rather than upgrades or downgrades. How the EV Peer Group Stacks Up Rivian (NASDAQ:RIVN) trades near $16.43 against a consensus target of $19.23, roughly 17% of upside. Q1 revenue of $1.38 billion beat, but free cash flow was negative $1.08 billion. Ratings run 12 Buy, 8 Hold, 5 Sell, with the R2 launch as the key swing factor. Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) sits around $6.61 versus a $8.20 target, or about 24% upside. Q2 delivered a 20% EPS miss and a $299 million inventory write-down. Analysts skew 1 Buy, 8 Hold, 3 Sell. General Motors (NYSE:GM) trades near $87.96 against a $100.04 target, roughly 14% of upside. GM raised full-year adjusted EPS guidance to $12.00 to $14.00 after a Q2 beat, and 22 of 28 analysts rate it Buy or Strong Buy. Tesla holds the largest outlier up

1 Reason BYD Co. Could Be the Top Stock Investors Are Missing

Key Points BYD has burst onto the global auto scene by surpassing Tesla in full-electric vehicle deliveries and surpassing Ford in total deliveries in 2025. BYD has a new target, surpassing Toyota for No. 1 in total scale within five years. BYD offers investors massive growth as it tries to more than double deliveries while closing the gap on Toyota.10 stocks we like better than BYD Company › It's easy to understand why investors and Wall Street were focused on Western electric vehicle (EV) pioneers, given Tesla(NASDAQ: TSLA) essentially reenergized the industry from California. When looking for the next soaring Tesla stock, many jumped to look at Rivian or Lucid, while overlooking a growing Chinese Juggernaut, BYD Co. (OTC: BYDDY) -- and that's a mistake. BYD offers an enticing combination of global scale, impressive vertical integration, proven profitability, and the ability to develop a vehicle from the ground up faster than the industry has seen. But the one reason BYD could be the top automotive stock investors are missing is an easy one, with a great recent example: growth. Coming for that top spot BYD Co. might not be a household name in America, yet. The Chinese automaker doesn't sell a product here thanks to significant tariffs on Chinese EVs, but it has burst onto the global scene over the past five years. Last year, BYD sold more full-electric vehicles than its well-known rival Tesla and, even though BYD ended production of any gasoline-powered vehicles in 2022, it sold more new-energy vehicles (NEVs), which is just a term that combines full-electric and hybrids, than Ford Motor Company sold total vehicles last year. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again.In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue » BYD barely celebrated its growth, and instead talked about its new target: overtaking Toyota(NYSE: TM) to become the No. 1 automaker by global sales in five years. BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu stated at its annual shareholder meeting, "BYD will truly become the No. 1 automaker globally in terms of scale in five years." That would require more than doubling its 4.8 million sales globally to close the gap with Toyota and its lofty 11.3 million global vehicle sales. While entering the U.S. market, which remains the second-largest EV market by volume, would be a boost to reaching this target, the company has no plans to do so and will instead rely on its explosive international growth via Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Backing up Chairman Chuanfu, BYD Executive Vice President Stella Li added, "With our own organic growth... We don't need the U.S. market to achieve that." Image source: BYD Co. If BYD were to achieve this without yet entering the lucrative U.S. market, that would be massive growth alone, with tantalizing upside were it to find a way into the U.S. market in time. BYD's potential growth over five years is enough to dig deeper into it as an investment, but there's so much more that makes the Chinese juggernaut intriguing. One example is that the company boasts impressive vertical integration that enables it to build almost everything in-house, including batteries, electric motors, and software, which lowers costs and speeds up the development process significantly. Another example is its recent entry into Japan's minicar market, which no foreign automaker has dared to attempt in many, many years. BYD designed a vehicle specifically to succeed in the extremely challenging and strictly regulated market, and if it's successful, it would prove the Chinese juggernaut can truly enter any market and win. Who knows if BYD can actually surpass Toyota in five years; it's a significant challenge, no doubt. That said, BYD has proven it can enter just about any market and gain market share, and it can do so increasingly p

Tesla Burns Through Funds Allocated for Gavin Newsom’s EV Rebate Within Days—California Governor Hails Clean Energy Bet

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D-CA) MyFirstEV program promises a $3,500 instant discount on new EVs, as well as a $1,750 discount on used EVs, for first-time buyers in California. Now, Elon Musk's Tesla Inc. has confirmed on its website that it has run out of allocated funds in the program. Tesla Ran Out Of Funds in Four Days In a post on X, influencer Sawyer Merritt on Saturday quoted a post he made earlier, which shared that the EV giant had announced on Friday that only 30% of funds were left in the rebate program. Merritt said that Tesla had used up all of the allocated funds. Don't Miss: A single bad hire can set a startup back years. Here are the 5 hires founders most often misjudge — and why Still Learning the Market? These 50 Must-Know Terms Can Help You Catch Up Fast "The program launched on August 3rd, so this means buyers used up all of Tesla's allocated funds in just 4 days lol," Merritt said. UPDATE: Tesla's allocated funds for California's MyFirstEV program have officially been all used up. Just 22 hours ago, 30% of the funds remained. The program launched on August 3rd, so this means buyers used up all of Tesla's allocated funds in just 4 days lol. https://t.co/c0tByx4q3m — Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) August 8, 2026 Source: Tesla Trending: Avoid the #1 Investing Mistake: How Your 'Safe' Holdings Could Be Costing You Big Time Tesla, on a support page, has confirmed that the incentive is no longer available as the allocated funds have been depleted. Tesla had earlier confirmed that the EV giant will be participating in the program and that its eligible Model Y and Model 3 units would be sold to prospective buyers who placed their order "on or after August 3, 2026″ and take delivery while funds were still available. Tesla's competitors like Rivian Technologies Inc., as well as Lucid Group Inc. had also said they would be participating in the program. Gavin Newsom on California's Clean Energy Push In a post on X, the California Governor's Press Office handle shared a clip of Newsom at the MyFirstEV program event on Saturday. Newsom said that California had exceeded the state's "environmental goals." He also touted that California had invested "$6 billion" in developing EV infrastructure, as well as 2.5 million EVs sold since 2019. In every single category, California has exceeded environmental goals. $6 billion invested in EV infrastructure. 2.5 million cumulative EV's sold. California continues to set the standard for environmental action. pic.twitter.com/C9sfl8iAjs — Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) August 7, 2026 Story Continues See Also: Skip the Regrets: The Essential Retirement Tips Experts Wish Everyone Knew Earlier. He also shared that California had deployed "21,000 megawatts of battery storage," adding that the state had "the second largest utility scale battery storage in the world" behind China. Newsom also shared that the state had not experienced a "flex alert," which is a voluntary call by authorities to conserve power, in the last four years. "That's what battery storage has done," he said, outlining that the figure was around 770 megawatts when Newsom took office in 2019. 21,000 megawatts of battery storage. It was 770 when @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom started his term. California made a commitment to lead in this space. Now we're the second largest utility scale battery storage in the world. China, then California. The state hasn't had a Flex… pic.twitter.com/kUnpR1KYkV — Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) August 7, 2026 Photo courtesy: Shutterstock Read Next: Think you're saving enough for your kids? You might be dangerously off — see why Building Wealth Across More Than Just the Market Building a resilient portfolio means thinking beyond a single asset or market trend. Economic cycles shift, sectors rise and fall, and no one investment performs well in every environment. That's wh

California's New EV Rebate Comes With an Escape Hatch, and Only Tesla and Lucid Fit Through It

California's New EV Rebate Comes With an Escape Hatch, and Only Tesla and Lucid Fit Through It Sacramento wants this to read like a feel-good story: walk into a dealership, buy your first electric car, drive away $3,500 lighter on the price tag. That is not actually the story. Read what the California Air Resources Board put in writing about MyFirstEV, the state's new instant rebate program, and a different plot emerges. This isn't really about affordability. It's a state government admitting, in its own program materials, that the EV market cannot hold its shape without a subsidy attached to it — and then carving out an exemption for the two automakers who need that subsidy the least. Here's what actually happened. On August 7, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that Tesla, Hyundai, and Lucid dealerships in California had gone live with instant rebates: $3,500 off a new zero-emission vehicle, $1,750 off a used one, applied at the point of sale instead of showing up as a tax filing months later. Ford, Rivian, Chevrolet, and Kia are scheduled to flip the switch this month. Toyota, Lexus, Honda, and Subaru follow in September. Mitsubishi in November. Nissan and Volvo haven't committed to a date at all. The state is putting up $135.5 million; participating automakers match it dollar for dollar, for a combined $271 million pot that CARB projects will move a little more than 73,000 vehicles before the funding runs out. That's the press release. Here's what it's actually covering for. CARB's own FAQ document contains the admission everyone else buried: the agency built this program because, with the federal EV tax credit gone, California faces a critical moment in sustaining momentum toward its clean-transportation goals. That's the $7,500 federal credit that expired in September 2025. Once it disappeared, demand didn't soften — it fell off a cliff. New ZEV registrations in California dropped 40.2% year over year in the first quarter of 2026, according to the California New Car Dealers Association. Ford and Ram didn't wait to see if things would recover; both discontinued their full-size electric truck programs once it was clear the demand wasn't there without a check attached to it. We've written before about how little conviction Detroit ever actually had in the EV transition, and this is the bill coming due for that hedge. MyFirstEV isn't Sacramento growing a market. It's Sacramento trying to stop one from shrinking after Washington walked away. Now, where does the state's $135.5 million actually come from? Not the general fund. MyFirstEV is funded through California Climate Investments, which spends Cap-and-Invest dollars — the revenue from the state's cap-and-trade program that charges industrial polluters for carbon allowances. Those costs get passed down into gasoline and utility bills paid by every Californian, EV owner or not. So the mechanism here is blunter than "instant rebate" makes it sound: California is using money generated by carbon emissions, indirectly paid at the pump by gas car owners, to discount the cars of people trying to stop being one. That isn't a scandal — it's the entire design premise of cap-and-trade. But it's worth stating plainly, because a rebate framed as free money is really a transfer from one group of drivers to another. Story Continues Then there's the price cap, and this is where the program stops making sense on its own terms. MyFirstEV limits new vehicles to a $50,000 MSRP and used vehicles to $25,000, in order to keep the incentive aimed at ordinary, budget-conscious buyers. Except the rule doesn't apply to any manufacturer headquartered in California that builds nothing but zero-emission vehicles. Today, that carve-out effectively describes Tesla and Lucid — and, once its rebate goes live, Rivian. A fully loaded Lucid Air Sapphire stickers well north of $200,000 and can still qualify. A Hyundai Ioniq 9 or Kia EV9, built by companies headquartered somewhere other than Sacramento's backyard,

NIO Drops 5% on Disclosed BlackRock Stake Cut While Tesla, Lucid, Rivian Hold Steady

Quick Read NIO fell 5% after BlackRock's 13F revealed a 12% stake cut, though the disclosure is a 45-day-old snapshot of past holdings. BlackRock doubled its LCID stake to a record 12 million shares and raised RIVN to 56 million, signaling a rotation away from Chinese EV names. NIO's July deliveries surged 71% year over year to 35,934 vehicles, but strong fundamentals failed to offset the institutional positioning headline. Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Tesla didn't make the cut. Grab the names FREE today. Shares of Nio (NYSE:NIO) are down 5% to $4.57 in Tuesday morning trading, the clear outlier across electric vehicle names today. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock is up 1% to $335.36, Lucid Group (NASDAQ:LCID) shares are up 1% to $6.68, and Rivian (NASDAQ:RIVN) stock is down 1% to $16.25.Drew Angerer / Getty Images News via Getty Images The sector tape is calm. The Global X Autonomous & Electric Vehicles ETF (NASDAQ:DRIV) is flat at $35.79; this is an unleveraged thematic fund whose steady print underscores that today's action is a single-name move rather than a broad EV or autonomous vehicle selloff. That said, DRIV carries sector-concentration risk that prospective investors should consider. The catalyst is an institutional disclosure, not an operating stumble at Nio. NIO stock is reacting to a 13F filing from BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) that showed a trimmed position as of June 30, a point-in-time snapshot the market is treating as the day's dominant signal. BlackRock's Disclosed NIO Trim Sparks the Selloff BlackRock disclosed in its latest 13F that it reduced its Nio position by 12% during the second quarter, selling 1.2 million shares and ending June with 9.5 million shares valued at $47.9 million as of June 30. That filing landed roughly 45 days after quarter end, so it doesn't describe BlackRock's live position today. Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Tesla didn't make the cut. Grab the names FREE today. Still, the disclosure landed hard on Nio stock. Nio carries a $10.71 billion market cap and 12.3% institutional ownership, so a headline stake reduction from the world's largest asset manager drew immediate attention from traders positioning around the stock. The same filing shows BlackRock trimmed its XPeng (NYSE:XPEV) share position by 24% in the quarter. XPEV stock is down 2% to $11.77 this morning, adding weight to the read that institutions rotated out of Chinese EV names during the period covered by the filing. Record ES9 Demand Gets Overshadowed Story Continues The operating story at Nio actually improved into the disclosure window. The company delivered its 20,000th ES9 SUV just 73 days after handovers began, a record in China's premium all-electric segment, and July deliveries came in at 35,934 vehicles, up 71% year over year (YoY). Nio's Q1 2026 numbers backed that trajectory. The company reported revenue of $3.7 billion, with deliveries of 83,465 units up 98.3% YoY. Gross margin came in at 19%, and Q2 2026 delivery guidance sits at 110,000 to 115,000 units. Still, none of that carried the day. NIO stock is reacting to the disclosed BlackRock trim rather than the operating beat, a reminder that institutional positioning can override fundamentals over short windows, especially in a lower-priced stock. Rotation Into U.S. EV Names The rotation angle is direct. Per the same 13F, BlackRock roughly doubled its Lucid Group share position to a record 12 million shares and raised its Rivian stock holdings to a record 56.4 million shares, while remaining one of Tesla's largest institutional shareholders. That helps explain the divergence on the tape today. Lucid stock is holding a gain even after a rough week, Rivian shares are drifting lower, and Tesla stock is edging higher off recent lows. The read: this is a Chinese EV drawdown story confined to a positioning shift. Deutsche Bank estimates continue to frame Nio's delivery ra

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