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The next most shorted UK listed companies were Petropavlovsk PLC, Hammerson PLC, Network International Holdings PLC, and Wood Group (John) PLC where the respective short positions were 6.9%, 6.3%, 4.6% and 4.6% respectively. The table shows the largest ten short positions in companies that are listed and trading on the London Stock Exchange.

Among the stocks tracked by GraniteShares ETPs, Vodafone Group is the 18th most shorted stock, with three fund managers holding short positions representing 2% of the outstanding stock. In terms of which fund managers had the most short positions on UK listed companies, the analysis reveals GLG Partners LP had the highest number with 23. This was followed by Marshall Wace LLP, BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited, JP Morgan Asset Management (UK) Ltd and Ennismore Fund Management Limited with 21, 21, 9 and 9 short positions respectively.

Will Rhind, Founder and CEO of GraniteShares, said: "Shorting stocks is no longer the exclusive pursuit of institutional investors, as sophisticated individual investors are now increasingly doing this. The value of funds invested in our 3x short single stock ETPs listed on the London Stock Exchange was around $34m million on 17 th October 2021 with particular interest in some U.S. tech names such as Tesla, Uber, and Apple.

"Worries about rising interest rates have had an impact on more growth oriented tech names presenting a potential opportunity for some sophisticated investors seeking to take advantage of price declines over recent weeks."

GraniteShares currently offers 54 exchange traded products (ETPs) listed on the London Stock Exchange. They consist of a suite of index ETPs tracking FAANG stocks and a suite of Short and Leveraged Single Stock Daily ETPs tracking some of the most popular companies in UK and U.S. markets.

Its FAANG, GAFAM and FATANG product suite, offers long, short and 3X leveraged ETFs on FAANG, GAFAM and FATANG indices and can be traded in a single ticker symbol via ordinary brokerage accounts. FAANG consists of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google while GAFAM includes Google, Apple, Facebook Amazon, and Microsoft and FATANG covers Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, Apple, Netflix, and Google ETPs offer a pure way to gain exposure to top tech companies in the U.S. market. Indices are equally weighted and rebalanced quarterly.