The image of small investors banding together to take on the titans of Wall Street for greedily overshorting GameStop (NYSE: GME) stock has been seared into our public consciousness. Soon the saga will be turned into movies, documentaries, and books.
Yet even though the video game retailer -- and to a slightly lesser extent, movie theater operator AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) -- garnered all the headlines in the drama, there are a number of other stocks where short-sellers overextended themselves.
Below are eight other stocks that at the time of this writing still had significant percentages of their float (or the amount of shares available for trading) sold short. Perhaps not as extensive as GameStop at its peak, when 140% of the float was short, they're still significant amounts that could open the stocks up to a short squeeze.
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