Short Interest in Happy City Holdings Limited (NASDAQ:HCHL) Increases By 261.9%

Posted by Stuart Ham on Jun 13th, 2026

Happy City Holdings Limited (NASDAQ:HCHL – Get Free Report) saw a large growth in short interest in the month of May. As of May 29th, there was short interest totaling 497,436 shares, a growth of 261.9% from the May 14th total of 137,451 shares. Currently, 2.6% of the shares of the company are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 1,502,972 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 0.3 days.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, Weiss Ratings reaffirmed a “sell (d-)” rating on shares of Happy City in a research report on Friday, May 29th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Sell rating, Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Sell”.

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Happy City Price Performance

NASDAQ HCHL remained flat at $3.96 during mid-day trading on Friday. The company has a 50 day moving average price of $2.61 and a 200-day moving average price of $2.55. Happy City has a twelve month low of $0.80 and a twelve month high of $7.25.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Happy City

A hedge fund recently raised its stake in Happy City stock. Citadel Advisors LLC increased its holdings in shares of Happy City Holdings Limited (NASDAQ:HCHL – Free Report) by 34.9% during the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 18,688 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 4,838 shares during the period. Citadel Advisors LLC owned approximately 0.10% of Happy City worth $63,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

About Happy City

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Headquartered in Hong Kong, we are a restaurant operator that operates three all-you-can-eat hotpot restaurant through our wholly-owned Operating Subsidiaries in Hong Kong. We have been in the restaurant services industry serving the Hong Kong market for over 5 years, which is a relatively short operating history compared to some of our established competitors. Our restaurants serves all-you-can-eat Thai and Japanese hotpot to our customers under the brand names “Thai Pot” and “Gyu! Gyu! Shabu Shabu”.