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Bearish Pressure Is Building Around These 3 Stocks
Submitted by Jessica Mitacek. Article Published: 8/3/2026.
Key Points
- A growing wave of bearish bets against AI-linked and semiconductor stocks is starting to pay off after three years of record market highs.
- Short sellers have targeted Hims & Hers Health and QXO, betting against regulatory troubles, dilution risk, and mounting net losses at each company.
- KLA has instead suffered a steep valuation-driven decline of nearly 40% since June amid fears that chipmakers will curb AI-related capital spending.
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For the past three years, the market has seen a series of record highs as the AI trade continued to push the major indices higher. But amid that exponential growth, bearish bets have begun to increase, and now they appear to be paying off.
The current sell-off has had an adverse and outsized impact on chipmakers and Magnificent Seven stocks. Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), for instance, is down around 30% year-to-date (YTD), including a decline of nearly 27% in July. Meanwhile, South Korean semiconductor manufacturer SK hynix (NASDAQ: SKHY) has slid about 14% since its July 10 NASDAQ listing.
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Click here to learn this company's name for free todayHims & Hers Health (NYSE: HIMS) and QXO (NYSE: QXO) illustrate the short-selling side of that bearish shift, with both ranking among the market’s most heavily shorted stocks. KLA (NASDAQ: KLAC) represents a different setup: The semiconductor equipment maker has faced a sharp, valuation-driven sell-off amid concerns about chip-industry capital spending and the durability of AI demand.
Together, the three companies show how bearish pressure can build through very different channels—and why investors need to distinguish between a crowded short trade and a broader reset in expectations.
High-Beta Hims & Hers Health Has Become a Short Sellers’ Target
Short sellers have made healthcare provider Hims & Hers Health one of the market’s most heavily shorted stocks.
Some 61.4 million shares were sold short, representing 30% of the company’s public float, or about $2.29 billion, as of July 15.
On July 29, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Utah, and California sued Hims & Hers over alleged privacy, billing, and cancellation practices, adding a new legal and regulatory risk.
In May, the company announced a $350 million private offering of convertible senior notes due June 1, 2032, stoking fears of shareholder dilution. However, the company entered into capped-call transactions intended to reduce potential dilution. Much of the offering is earmarked for the Eucalyptus acquisition, but more broadly, it supports the company’s long-term international expansion plan.
Hims & Hers missed analyst expectations for both revenue and earnings per share (EPS) in Q1, and the company’s elevated customer acquisition costs have increased the risk of margin compression, spooking some investors.
Over the past year, insider selling has dwarfed buying, totaling about $87 million versus just $1.17 million in purchases.
But there have been tailwinds, too.
From avoiding a lawsuit with Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) and agreeing to distribute the Danish pharmaceutical company’s flagship GLP-1 drugs Ozempic and Wegovy to the $1.15 billion acquisition of Australian telehealth platform Eucalyptus, the company has positioned itself to deliver long-term shareholder value.
The stock is up around 100% from its YTD low in late February.
For buy-and-hold investors who are focused on the bigger picture and able to stomach the stock’s 2.35 beta, institutional ownership remains strong, while HIMS’ financial health has been in TradeSmith’s Green Zone for more than four months. The average 12-month price target also suggests about 13% potential upside from current prices.
QXO’s Losses and Valuation Draw Heavy Short Interest
Unlike the other two stocks on this list, QXO (NYSE: QXO) is not the victim of its own success.
Shares are down nearly 31% YTD and nearly 94% from their five-year high in June 2024.
The company distributes and installs building products, serving an estimated $800 billion market.
Its operations include roofing, insulation, lumber, waterproofing products and other construction materials.
QXO has become a target of short sellers largely because of a disconnect between its valuation and financial performance.
In Q1, the company’s net loss grew to $227 million, marking the fourth consecutive quarter in which it operated at a loss. On an annualized basis, QXO has averaged a net loss of more than $50 million over the past five years, turning a profit in just one of those years: $28 million in 2024.
Current short interest stands at nearly 25% of the float, or about 106 million shares out of the 725.3 million shares outstanding.
But a bottom may be in before short sellers are able to exit their positions. Short interest is down more than 35% month over month, and analysts’ average 12-month price target suggests as much as 120% potential upside, with the stock receiving a Moderate Buy rating.
KLA Gets Caught Up in the Semiconductor Sell-off
KLA fits squarely into the current AI sell-off. But its market cap of nearly $240 billion pales in comparison to those of the hyperscalers.
The company designs and manufactures equipment, software and services used by chipmakers to analyze and control manufacturing processes, detect defects, measure critical dimensions and improve yield across wafer fabrication, photomask and packaging operations.
Over the past year, the stock is up nearly 107% following a remarkable streak of earnings beats.
But that hasn’t prevented the company from being caught up in the rotation out of semiconductor names.
Since hitting its all-time high on June 30, KLAC is down nearly 40%. Unlike Hims & Hers and QXO, however, KLA’s bearish pressure has primarily manifested as a steep share-price decline rather than unusually elevated short interest.
Like its larger counterparts, KLA has suffered from overvaluation concerns and a subsequent exodus of investors hedging against a cyclical slowdown in semiconductor firms, fueled by the perception of unsustainable AI spending. That capital spending is KLA’s lifeblood, and if it is curtailed, the reduction could adversely affect the company’s share price.
But KLA dominates its niche. The company has between 50% and 60% of the wafer inspection market and between 40% and 50% of the metrology equipment market. Despite the sharp sell-off, institutional ownership remains robust at nearly 87%, with inflows of more than $495 million surpassing outflows of just over $70 million in the past year. While gains may slow, analysts see more than 22% potential upside over the next 12 months.
Take-Two’s Q1 Results Leave GTA 6 Bulls Stuck in the Fog of War
Author: Dan Schmidt. Posted: 8/9/2026.
Key Points
- Take-Two Interactive kept its fiscal 2027 outlook unchanged even as GTA 6 preorders drew positive commentary from management.
- Take-Two Interactive remains one of the clearest publicly traded proxies for major video game publishers after Electronic Arts went private.
- Take-Two Interactive’s next major test will be whether demand for GTA 6 can overcome console pricing, hardware supply and margin concerns.
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It’s pencils-down time at Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). The company reported its fiscal Q1 2027 (FY2027) results on Friday, Aug. 7, marking the final quarter of results before the launch of the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI. Game development is complete, pre-orders are rolling in, and it’s time to assess how much the AI-driven memory and hardware shortage is affecting the video game sector.
After Electronic Arts was taken private by an investor group led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners, Take-Two Interactive has become the industry’s publicly traded bellwether. Its results are now more likely to be viewed as a proxy for major game publishers. And since GTA6 is the most hotly anticipated video game of all time, the market is looking for a sumptuous fiscal 2027 outlook. Did management deliver?
Management Disappoints Market by Leaving Guidance Unchanged
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Click here to learn this company's name for free todayGTA6 will be officially released on Nov. 19, marking the company’s fourth major console game release in the last two years, following NBA 2K26, Borderlands 4 and WWE 2K26. This strong pipeline fueled management optimism heading into the new fiscal year. During its Q4 FY2026 report in May, management projected full-year fiscal 2027 net bookings of $8.0 billion to $8.2 billion, with net bookings growing about 20% at the midpoint. It also guided to GAAP revenue of $7.8 billion to $7.9 billion and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of 55 cents to 75 cents.
Take-Two released its Q1 FY2027 results before the market opened on Aug. 7, but the report left the stock in limbo rather than providing clarity. The key figure investors were watching was the fiscal 2027 outlook, which would include a full quarter of GTA6 pre-orders and the quarters following its release. Despite CEO Strauss Zelnick’s claim that demand has been “unprecedented and astonishing,” Take-Two left its full-year net bookings guidance unchanged at $8.0 billion to $8.2 billion. Net bookings declined 3% year-over-year (YOY) to $1.39 billion, while gross margin also compressed during the quarter. The EPS miss was driven by a $43.4 million impairment charge related to the cancellation of an unannounced game title. The company also reported record NBA 2K26 sales of more than 12 million units.
CEO Zelnick provided a clue about the unchanged guidance when asked about high-speed memory shortages that have led to console price hikes. “The rising cost of hardware is not a good thing,” Zelnick admitted in response to a question from Roth Capital’s Eric Handler. “A lower price point for hardware would be a good thing because there’d be more hardware in people’s hands.” While Zelnick says Take-Two will make games for any console and doesn’t view an $800 Xbox system as a headwind, expensive consoles and the $80 price of a new copy of GTA6 represent significant hurdles for consumers.
The ball is in GTA6’s court moving forward, but the AI memory bottleneck could still affect its release. No PC release is currently scheduled, and the game will not include a disc in the box customers receive. The company is launching a blockbuster title during a component shortage it cannot control—an unusual setup that helps explain why management is keeping a low profile ahead of the release. The stock gained just over 1% after the report, an appropriately mild response to a quarter that pushed the biggest questions further down the line.
Momentum Standoff Ahead of Earnings Remains Unresolved
Investors seeking clarity from the TTWO stock chart ahead of earnings were met with more fog. Shares formed a clear double-bottom pattern following the release of the company’s Q3 FY2026 results in February, with the second leg reaching its low as the S&P 500 bottomed in early April. Shares broke above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages over the next few months, culminating in a Golden Cross formation last month that created a new level of support at the 50-day MA. That support level was tested in the week leading up to the fiscal Q1 FY2027 earnings call and held—barely—following the release.
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) has been volatile, running the gamut from oversold to overbought and back again. Buyers and sellers have been pulling the rope in opposite directions with equal force, and the Q1 FY2027 report did little to break the stalemate. For now, the 50-day MA can be considered a weak support level, and an RSI that moves back into bullish territory would help strengthen it.
Takeaways for Investors After Fiscal Q1 2027 Results
The World Cup might be over, but bulls and bears remain locked in a draw over TTWO shares.
Management has provided little color on GTA6 pre-sales, and the market didn’t exactly go wild following the Q1 FY2027 release. Here are a few developments that could break the stalemate ahead of the Q2 FY2027 report:
Bullish: The Aug. 27 Extended Look trailer generates significant hype and boosts pre-sales to levels that can no longer remain vague.
Bullish: An early PC release date pulls revenue from fiscal 2028 into fiscal 2027.
Bearish: Shortfalls in console supply push significant revenue out of fiscal 2027 and break the full-year guidance.
Bearish: EPS guidance is reduced in Q2 due to launch costs, signaling a multiquarter headwind rather than quarter-to-quarter noise.
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