[99_00]

Institutional investor and hedge funds aren't the same thing. It's my understanding that the shorts were put on by hedge funds.

As far as I know institutional investors can't short stocks.

[mrh0057]

Institutional investors are pretty much anyone who manages money on behalf of someone else. I don’t know how the restrictions work but likely has something to do with what the institution’s purpose is.

[MrStonedOne]

Institutional investor has become the term to refer to the opposite of retail investors.

I don't see that changing.