Axa Equitable Holdings

EQH

Equitable Holdings (formerly The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, and also known as The Equitable) was founded by Henry Baldwin Hyde in 1859. In 1991, Axa, a French insurance company, acquired majority control of The Equitable.In 2004, it officially changed its name to AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company. By 2018, the company had over 15,800 agents licensed by the State of California. In January 2020 it changed its name back to Equitable following its spinoff from AXA and the related public offerings beginning in May 2018.

Axa Equitable Holdings has been a target of short sellers for a while. The current short interest of 1.80% is roughly at the average of the last 12 months (2.62%).