What is the Borrow Rate for $XERS?
What is the Borrow Rate for $XERS?
What is the Borrow Rate or Stock Loan Fee for $XERS?
Quelthalas Answered question June 12, 2021
@csonnier
How does a high borrow rate affects stock ?
Is 15% considered high ?
I’m new to this stock. Your DD made me invest here.
csonnier Posted new comment June 13, 2021
The borrow rates changes daily and even intraday. The latest report from iBorrowDesk as the borrow rate at 15.2%. To keep up with the borrow rates throughout the trading day here is a link to iBorrowDesk.
csonnier Answered question June 12, 2021
Glad to hear you are doing your due diligence and hopefully this site helps out. To answer your second question: Typically as the borrow rate increases it makes it more expensive to keep or start a new short position, making it less profitable to short the stock.
“An increase in stock borrow rates may force (squeeze) some short sellers into closing their positions – getting out to realize their remaining mark-to-market profits and exiting before other buy-to-covers drive the stock price up,” – S3 Partners analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky
As for what’s considered high, that relative to the volatility of the stock and how long one plans to hold the short position. When looking at the highest borrowing rate on iBorrowDesk.com there are stocks with over 100%, up to 412%.