Most-Hated Stocks in 2011 Burn Short Sellers

Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The companies investors hated the most in 2011 have returned twice as much as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index this year, burning speculators who bet stocks from Sears Holdings Corp. to Netflix Inc. would keep falling. The 26 companies in the S&P 500 with the highest so-called short interest relative to shares available for trading rallied 18 percent this year, compared with 8.2 percent for the full index, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Dominic Chu reports on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness With Margaret Brennan." (Source: Bloomberg)

Bloomberg | February 17, 2012

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