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Sears Holdings Corp Soars Amid Restructuring Plan But No Short Squeeze Yet

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:SHLD) has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for years, but a new restructuring plan was enough to make investors giddy. The stock skyrocketed by about 30% during regular trading hours on Friday, but despite that, up-to-date data indicates that there's no short squeeze going on, or at least not yet anyway.

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Meanwhile, analysts seem unimpressed by Sears' restructuring plan, saying it lacks one key piece of information: any shred of a plan to drive sales. The department store operator also released preliminary fourth quarter results, but it's not the whole picture yet.

Sears Holdings announces restructuring plan

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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.