

The 6.34 million shares sold short now account for a 4.5% of the stock's available float, or more than two days' worth of pent-up buying power. Short sellers are piling Spotify stock as well, with short interest up nearly 31% in the last two reporting periods. This indicates long puts have been picked up at a much quicker-than-usual clip in the last 10 weeks. At the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Cboe Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX), SPOT’s 50-day put/call volume ratio of 1.28 sits higher than 98% of readings from the past year. Sentiment surrounding the stock has been less than stellar of late. Longer-term, the equity is off by more than 56% year-over-year. So if you are investing in stocks that can double in one year.


Pressured by the 20-day moving average over the course of 2022, SPOT has shed 47.1% year-to-date. It’s not analytical, this is very just rule of thumb, but how fast a stock goes up, that’s the half life for how much it can go down. Today's positive price action is giving Spotify stock a nifty little bump, as it's coming off a March 14 two-year low below the $120 level. Specifically, Spotify signed a stadium and shirt deal with FC Barcelona, in which the company's brand will appear on the Spanish soccer team's jerseys for the next four seasons. Even having revalued 295 from the March 2020 lows, Spotifys price during the second half of last year has been developing a lateral behavior with an accumulation process in two phases, prior to the achievement of the all-time high of 386.76 per share. The shares of Spotify Technology Sa (NYSE:SPOT) are up 2.2% to trade at $126.58 ahead of the bell, after the streaming platform announced a major sponsorship deal.
