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August 25, 2007
Marvell & Spelunking in Short Interest
I don't have time to do much with it, but there is interesting stuff in (here we go again) Wikiscanner if you use it as your guide to wander through the short interest on Nasdaq and the NYSE. Check the companies with highest short interest -- stocks that a lot of people are betting will go down -- and there is often an underlying controversy, one that many times finds it way into the company's Wikipedia entry, there to be edited and re-edited.Here is an example from Marvell Technology, which has been on and off the Nasdaq short-interest charts. Someone at Marvell tried to do an edit to some charges about inappropriate use of open source software in Marvell products, only to be edited out of the current document entirely.
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Interesting move they tried to pull at MRVL. That company has had its share of problems, thats for sure. I think they need to be turning the company around internally, not messing with these Wikipedia entries.