Short interest versus percent of float short?



what is the difference and which is more important when buying a stock
Short interest is the total number of shares of a particular stock that have been sold short by investors but have not yet been covered or closed out. This can be expressed as a number or as a percentage.   

  

When expressed as a percentage short interest is the number of shorted shares divided by the number of shares outstanding. For example, a stock with 1.5 million shares sold short and 10 million shares outstanding has a short interest of 15% (1.5 million/10 million = 15%).   

  

Most stock exchanges track the short interest in each stock and issue reports at month's end. These reports are great because, by showing what short sellers are doing, they allow investors to gauge overall market sentiment surrounding a particular stock. Or alternatively most exchanges provide an online tool to calculate short interest for a particular security. For example check out the Nasdaq's short interest calculator; it's very easy to use.
shorting has been pretty horrible this year imo. so firstly you have the broad pro-equity factors you mentioned e.g. rotation into etfs, which makes it tough to be short anything in the first place. then you have other factors that have made stock-picking increasingly difficult on the short side, such as the vast quantities of pe dry powder on the sidelines that have bought out some heavily shorted stocks this year.
the sector exposure stuff has been bad too. e.g. consumer staples which has been a fundamental short for a while (slowing growth, saturation in ems, peak margins). about 10% lower than swes at google. which is still way higher than want asic companies pay. a sum of money becomes 3 times in 5 years at simple interest. in how many years will the same sum become 6 times at the same rate of simple interest? nba) but the halves vs quarters are because the full game length is shorter in college than in nba, so quarters would be extremely short (can't remember the time off the top of my head). quarters would only be 10 minutes instead of 12. in college, you get 5 fouls for 40 minutes of game time, 1 per every 8 minutes. hi,

lots of great explanations below, but i fear they might be difficult to truly conceptualize. 

let's start with a pie!

if there's a pie in front of us, that is the market. we'll call it 100 units of pie

we cut the pie in half - one piece (50 pie units) for you, and one piece (50 pie units) for me

scenario 1: we do nothing, we both have 50% market share.

scenario 2: i eat half my pie. my pie slice is now 25 units, yours is still 50 units. as a result, you have 67% of the market share and i have 33%. my "revenues" have fallen and my market share has fallen. your revenues haven't changed but you've gained market share

scenario 3: not only do i eat half my pie, but you also eat 20% of yours. still, i ate more, so even though your "revenues" are down, you've still gained market share.

scenario 4: we both get given more pie (yay). but, i get a whole other 50 units, and you only get 5 more. your "revenues" are up, but you've still lost market share!

i've created the below image for you to visualize this better (click on it to blow it up)...hope this helps! in 1 out of 10 days the portfolio value will decline by usd 500000 or more apple: top few most valuable companies in the world. amazing products. doing interesting work in several fields. could stop selling product for years and still be solvent.alipay: rapid growth, large but niche market. chinese owned. pre ipo so your options are worthless. about ready to ipo so probably really diluted too.lyft: lower comp, smaller and niche market. dependent on gig workers to provide labor. long term outlook?really depends on what you want, but unless one of the others really interests you for some reason, go with apple for a while. probably better comp, looks great on resume. Hi,  

one of the most important aspects to stress in an M&A will be the revenue and cost synergies of the 2 companies.


During a PE investment instead will be crucial to investigate the ability of the target company to increase - in the short-middle term - profit and value. Then, you can think even on synergies with the other firms in the portfolio.


Best,  

Antonello The simple interest formula is:  
I = P*R*T, where   
I - interest, P - principal, R - rate, T - time in years of the loan.  
Then, R = I/(P*T) =140/(500*7) = 0.04  
The rate is 4% hii..

according to me,the cut off will be around 90-95 marks for general category,50-55 marks for obc category,35-40 marks for sc category and 25-30 marks for st category.so it is difficult to be predict now.

please see the table below for previous years trends:-

 

jee main cut off trends (2013-2017)

| s.no. | category | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
| 1 | general | 81 | 100 | 105 | 115 | 113 |
| 2 | obc-ncl | 49 | 70 | 70 | 74 | 70 |
| 3 | sc | 32 | 52 | 50 | 53 | 50 |
| 4 | st | 27 | 48 | 44 | 47 | 45 |