Best short squeeze stocks today
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Tapeboard ranks the top short squeeze candidates daily using a 0-100 composite of FINRA short interest, IBKR borrow fee, float utilization, days to cover, and 5-day price momentum, z-score normalized across roughly 500 active US equities and recomputed after every market close.
Top 50 short squeeze candidates
| # | TICKER | SCORE | SI %FLOAT @ May 15, 2026 | BORROW FEE | DTC | FLOAT UTIL | 5D % | PRICE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CETX T | 100 | 77.1% | - | 2.6 | 77.1% | -40.65% | $5.42 |
| 2 | OST | 99 | 3.5% | - | 1000.0 | 3.5% | - | $1.70 |
| 3 | TOPS T | 72 | 65.5% | 18.9% | 1.0 | 65.5% | +5.99% | $0.95 |
| 4 | GRPN T | 70 | 66.7% | 0.9% | 5.4 | 66.7% | -18.64% | $16.60 |
| 5 | GOVX T | 55 | 13.6% | 416.8% | 1.0 | 13.6% | -19.90% | $1.61 |
| 6 | BTDR | 49 | 42.7% | 0.4% | 7.0 | 42.7% | -0.11% | $17.36 |
| 7 | CHWY T | 49 | 43.5% | 0.4% | 3.1 | 43.5% | -8.43% | $20.64 |
| 8 | ELF T | 46 | 40.6% | 0.4% | 2.7 | 40.6% | -11.48% | $49.71 |
| 9 | RH T | 45 | 39.1% | 0.3% | 6.8 | 39.1% | -1.25% | $144.99 |
| 10 | NTLA T | 45 | 38.6% | 0.4% | 7.7 | 38.6% | -3.77% | $13.39 |
| 11 | PLAY | 43 | 38.1% | 0.3% | 5.7 | 38.1% | -16.23% | $11.19 |
| 12 | ASAN T | 43 | 36.2% | 0.4% | 4.5 | 36.2% | +1.82% | $7.75 |
| 13 | RXRX | 42 | 35.9% | 0.7% | 13.3 | 35.9% | -7.66% | $3.30 |
| 14 | AI T | 41 | 34.6% | 0.4% | 10.2 | 34.6% | -3.16% | $10.26 |
| 15 | LCID T | 41 | 35.5% | 8.3% | 3.4 | 35.5% | -21.91% | $5.14 |
| 16 | CSIQ T | 41 | 34.7% | 0.8% | 4.4 | 34.7% | -9.64% | $17.15 |
| 17 | EVGO T | 40 | 33.6% | 0.7% | 10.6 | 33.6% | -4.28% | $2.15 |
| 18 | IBRX T | 40 | 33.7% | 2.4% | 10.6 | 33.7% | -7.98% | $6.89 |
| 19 | CRMT T | 40 | 34.7% | 0.4% | 18.3 | 34.7% | -37.10% | $7.41 |
| 20 | CLSK T | 39 | 33.9% | 0.3% | 4.1 | 33.9% | -14.76% | $15.39 |
| 21 | UPST T | 38 | 32.5% | 0.4% | 5.0 | 32.5% | -11.99% | $29.49 |
| 22 | NVAX | 38 | 32.0% | 0.4% | 6.3 | 32.0% | -13.49% | $9.43 |
| 23 | PATH | 37 | 30.9% | 1.1% | 3.8 | 30.9% | -4.10% | $11.11 |
| 24 | TWST T | 37 | 29.9% | 0.3% | 10.4 | 29.9% | +3.51% | $71.00 |
| 25 | BEAM T | 37 | 30.1% | 0.3% | 12.6 | 30.1% | -10.72% | $29.80 |
| 26 | INDI T | 36 | 29.5% | 2.1% | 11.5 | 29.5% | -18.84% | $4.27 |
| 27 | CRSP T | 35 | 28.4% | 0.5% | 16.5 | 28.4% | -7.73% | $51.58 |
| 28 | MDGL T | 35 | 28.3% | 0.3% | 12.3 | 28.3% | -2.07% | $484.00 |
| 29 | TRIP T | 35 | 27.8% | 0.4% | 9.0 | 27.8% | +6.08% | $11.99 |
| 30 | WULF T | 35 | 28.9% | 0.3% | 3.8 | 28.9% | -6.10% | $23.50 |
| 31 | RUM T | 35 | 28.0% | 10.9% | 7.1 | 28.0% | -17.52% | $7.55 |
| 32 | IOVA | 35 | 27.5% | 0.4% | 6.0 | 27.5% | +3.17% | $4.18 |
| 33 | BYND T | 35 | 27.5% | 12.7% | 2.2 | 27.5% | -10.03% | $0.71 |
| 34 | PRME T | 34 | 28.1% | 0.4% | 11.7 | 28.1% | -13.80% | $3.13 |
| 35 | SNDX T | 34 | 27.5% | 0.3% | 10.5 | 27.5% | -11.49% | $18.41 |
| 36 | LYFT T | 33 | 26.6% | 0.4% | 5.1 | 26.6% | -3.26% | $13.60 |
| 37 | NBIS | 33 | 21.4% | - | 2.3 | 21.4% | -1.42% | $221.83 |
| 38 | SRPT T | 33 | 26.4% | 0.4% | 7.3 | 26.4% | -11.86% | $15.79 |
| 39 | RUN | 33 | 27.0% | 0.4% | 6.5 | 27.0% | -20.13% | $13.39 |
| 40 | KOD T | 33 | 26.0% | 0.3% | 15.8 | 26.0% | -15.42% | $30.45 |
| 41 | ENVB T | 32 | 3.3% | 265.4% | 1.0 | 3.3% | -21.74% | $1.84 |
| 42 | MARA T | 32 | 26.6% | 0.3% | 2.2 | 26.6% | -14.33% | $12.19 |
| 43 | OCGN T | 32 | 25.6% | 1.1% | 8.2 | 25.6% | -7.25% | $1.33 |
| 44 | ARCT T | 32 | 25.1% | 0.5% | 13.3 | 25.1% | -7.83% | $7.57 |
| 45 | BBAI | 32 | 26.3% | 1.4% | 3.0 | 26.3% | -16.67% | $4.17 |
| 46 | FUBO T | 32 | 24.9% | 3.7% | 4.2 | 24.9% | -5.45% | $9.70 |
| 47 | CORZ T | 32 | 25.1% | 0.4% | 3.6 | 25.1% | -3.72% | $25.63 |
| 48 | XRX T | 31 | 24.3% | 1.9% | 2.7 | 24.3% | +2.47% | $3.33 |
| 49 | PLUG | 31 | 25.6% | 0.5% | 3.5 | 25.6% | -18.73% | $3.20 |
| 50 | RNA | 31 | 23.7% | 1.1% | 21.2 | 23.7% | -9.23% | $11.99 |
New to short squeezes? Start here.
A short squeeze happens when a heavily-shorted stock starts rising and short sellers are forced to buy back shares to close their positions, that buying pushes the price up further, forcing more covering, and so on. The columns above tell you whether the structural conditions for a squeeze exist. Here's what each one means in plain English:
A high score doesn't mean a stock will squeeze, it means the structural ingredients are there. Squeezes still need a catalyst (earnings, news, a forced buyer) to ignite. Read our methodology for the full formula and source citations.
What is a short squeeze?
A short squeeze is a rapid price increase in a stock driven primarily by short sellers being forced to close their positions. When a heavily-shorted stock starts rising, traders who borrowed shares to sell them short face mounting losses; once those losses exceed their margin tolerance, brokers issue margin calls and shorts must buy back shares to close out, that buying pushes the price higher still, triggering more margin calls in a feedback loop. The mechanic is purely structural: high short interest plus a spark plus tight share availability equals an air pocket on the upside.
The conditions that pre-load a squeeze are well-documented. Short interest as a percentage of float measures how much of the tradable share supply has been borrowed and sold short, anything above 20% is elevated, 30% is high, and 40%+ is rare and usually unsustainable. Borrow fee is the annualized cost lenders charge to lend shares; when fees climb past 10-20% per annum the borrow desk is flagging that supply has run out. Float utilization tracks how much of the brokerage's available borrow inventory is already lent, utilization above 90% means the next short seller has nowhere to source shares without paying punitive rates. Days to cover divides total short interest by average daily volume, so a DTC of 5+ means it would take a full week of normal volume just to unwind the existing short positions.
Each of those metrics on its own produces too many false positives. Combined into a single composite score, with weights derived from the named squeeze events of 2021-2023 (GME, AMC, BBBY, KOSS, BBIG), the signal cleans up considerably. That is the score Tapeboard publishes here. Inputs come from FINRA bi-monthly settlement files (via Yahoo Finance), Interactive Brokers' real-time stock-loan inventory, and Tapeboard's own price feed for the momentum component. The full formula, including the z-score normalization step and the weight assigned to each component, is documented at /methodology/short-squeeze-score.
A high score is descriptive, not predictive. It tells you a ticker has the structural ingredients for a squeeze; it does not tell you a squeeze will happen. Squeezes need a catalyst, earnings beat, regulatory approval, activist short report rebuttal, a cluster of insider buys, or in the case of GME in January 2021, a coordinated retail flow. The score quantifies the powder; the catalyst lights the fuse. Pair the leaderboard with the news feed, the SEC filings surface, and the options-flow scanner, those are where catalysts surface in advance.
Short squeeze FAQ
How fresh is this data?
This page mixes two cadences, and they are labeled separately. Borrow fee, price, and 5-day momentum are live and were last rebuilt on 2026-06-05; they refresh daily after every market close. Short interest is a slow metric: the most recent short interest is settled as of May 15, 2026, because FINRA publishes short interest on a settlement schedule (historically bi-monthly) and the figure is held between readings. That is not staleness, it is how short interest works, there is no real-time short interest in US markets. The SI as-of date is stamped directly on the short-interest column and below the table so the number is never presented as today's value.
How does Tapeboard calculate its Short Squeeze Score?
The Tapeboard Short Squeeze Score is a 0-100 composite that combines five inputs with fixed weights: short interest as a percentage of float (35%), Interactive Brokers borrow fee (25%), float utilization (20%), days to cover (15%), and trailing 5-day price momentum (5%). Each input is z-score normalized against a daily universe of approximately 500 active US equities, then combined into the weighted sum and clamped to the 0-100 range. The full formula and source citations are published at /methodology/short-squeeze-score.
How often does the leaderboard update?
The leaderboard recomputes once daily after the US market close, typically by 9 PM ET, after FINRA settlement files post and IBKR refreshes its borrow inventory. Borrow fees and float utilization update daily; short interest updates bi-monthly on FINRA's schedule, with a roughly 10-business-day delay. Real-time short interest does not exist publicly in US markets.
What does a high short squeeze score mean?
A score of 70+ means the ticker shows multiple squeeze conditions simultaneously, high short interest, elevated borrow fee, tight float utilization, an extended days-to-cover ratio, and constructive recent price action. The score is descriptive of structural conditions, not predictive of an actual squeeze. Most squeezes require a catalyst (earnings, news, a forced buyer) to ignite covering pressure on top of the structural setup.
What is the FINRA Threshold Securities List and why does it matter?
The FINRA Threshold Securities List flags stocks where aggregate failures-to-deliver have exceeded 10,000 shares and 0.5% of total shares outstanding for at least five consecutive settlement days. Inclusion confirms covering pressure already exists in the market, sellers (often shorts) have not been able to deliver shares they sold. Threshold inclusion is a backward-looking confirmation, not a forward signal, but it is the cleanest public indicator that settlement-level squeeze pressure is real.
What stocks are most vulnerable to a short squeeze right now?
Tickers at the top of Tapeboard's leaderboard, sortable above by score, short interest percentage, borrow fee, days to cover, or float utilization, show the strongest current structural setup. Click any ticker to open its dedicated squeeze page with the full component breakdown, 30-day score history, and threshold-list status.
Is the short squeeze score available for all stocks?
The score is computed for a universe of roughly 500 US-listed common stocks with average daily dollar volume above $5M and current market cap above $50M. Tickers outside that universe, micro-caps below $50M, OTC names, ETFs, ADRs without sufficient volume, are not scored. Tickers can move into and out of the universe daily as their volume and market cap change.
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