BUY Conviction4/5 Analysis quality80/100 now
Despite the general decline of department stores, Dillard's is presented as a strong short squeeze candidate due to surprisingly robust fundamentals, including a significant cash position exceeding its debt, five-year high revenue, and decade-high operating profits. High institutional and insider ownership further reduces the float, making a squeeze more likely.
“dillards has 862 million dollars in balance sheet cash against just 605 million in debt so whereas all these other shorts were crushed under a mountain of debt and interest payments doesn't look likely here now revenue has rebounded since the pandemic and is at a five-year high and operating profits are the highest in more than a decade”