The hype over artificial intelligence (AI) has boosted many chipmaker stocks year to date, so it comes as little surprise that many big names are now seen as overvalued. However, it’s not always a good idea to bet against stocks in the middle of a hype cycle, as many short-sellers have discovered. In fact, short-sellers have lost 92% of every dollar they’ve bet against chip stocks so far this year, racking up paper losses of over $18 billion year to date, according to data from S3 Partners. Of course, aside from the possibility of hefty losses, short-sellers face many other…
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Michelle deBoer-Jones
Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.