Most Shorted Stocks Today: May 25, 2026 — Top 25 Squeeze Candidates
Enveric (ENVB) tops Tapeboard's most-shorted-stocks board on May 25, 2026 with a perfect 100 squeeze score and a 249% annualized borrow fee, leading Groupon (GRPN), RH, CleanSpark (CLSK), and Recursion (RXRX) into a holiday-shortened week dominated by FINRA threshold names.
Most Shorted Stocks on May 25, 2026 — Top 25 Leaderboard
ENVB tops Tapeboard's most-shorted-stocks board on May 25, 2026 with a perfect squeeze score of 100, powered by an extreme 249.0% annualized borrow fee on 45.7% short interest. Today's leaderboard splits between high-fee micro-caps where lendable shares are scarce and biotech and consumer names with double-digit days to cover and elevated float utilization. Twenty of the 25 candidates carry the FINRA threshold flag, signaling sustained short-side volume heading into the holiday-shortened week.
| Rank | Symbol | Squeeze Score | SI % Float | Borrow Fee | Days to Cover | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ENVB | 100 | 45.7% | 249.0% | 0.1 | |
| 2 | GRPN | 91.5 | 59.2% | 1.0% | 6.7 | T |
| 5 | RH | 75.5 | 55.8% | 0.4% | 3.2 | T |
| 6 | CLSK | 70.4 | 49.5% | 0.3% | 4.5 | |
| 7 | RXRX | 66.3 | 34.2% | 0.8% | 15.0 | T |
| 8 | NVAX | 63.9 | 30.3% | 0.5% | 15.6 | T |
| 9 | BTDR | 63.9 | 34.7% | 0.7% | 8.2 | |
| 11 | IBRX | 62.8 | 35.6% | 3.7% | 9.3 | T |
| 12 | AI | 62.6 | 35.2% | 0.4% | 10.2 | |
| 13 | EVGO | 62.3 | 33.5% | 0.7% | 11.9 | T |
| 14 | NTLA | 61.7 | 39.3% | 0.4% | 6.8 | T |
| 15 | INDI | 58.5 | 29.4% | 2.4% | 13.4 | T |
| 16 | ARCT | 57.2 | 28.2% | 0.6% | 15.5 | T |
| 17 | PLAY | 57.1 | 34.0% | 0.4% | 4.5 | |
| 18 | LCID | 56.8 | 35.8% | 9.3% | 3.0 | T |
| 20 | PCRX | 56.2 | 28.6% | 0.4% | 14.9 | T |
| 21 | CSIQ | 56.1 | 31.4% | 0.9% | 6.7 | T |
| 22 | TRIP | 55.1 | 31.9% | 0.4% | 9.1 | T |
| 23 | UPST | 54.9 | 32.3% | 0.4% | 6.2 | T |
| 24 | BEAM | 53.8 | 31.5% | 0.3% | 9.7 | T |
| 25 | PRME | 53.6 | 21.5% | 0.4% | 16.4 | T |
| 26 | TWST | 53.2 | 28.7% | 0.3% | 11.0 | T |
| 27 | CRSP | 52.6 | 26.7% | 0.5% | 12.9 | T |
| 28 | SRPT | 52.4 | 28.3% | 0.3% | 10.1 | T |
| 29 | TGTX | 52.0 | 25.5% | 0.3% | 14.9 | T |
Top 5 Squeeze Setups for May 25, 2026
1. ENVB — Squeeze Score 100
ENVB is the outlier of the entire board, scoring a maximum 100 on a 249.0% annualized borrow fee — the kind of stock-loan cost only seen on micro-caps where shares are nearly impossible to source. Short interest is 45.7% of float, and the 24.3% float utilization says the same thing from a different angle: a thin lendable base being aggressively borrowed. Days to cover is only 0.1 because daily volume runs hot against the small share count, so the squeeze mechanic here is not "shorts cannot exit" — it is "shorts cannot afford to stay." At $2.25 with five-day momentum at -1.8%, the trigger setup is straightforward: any further tightening of borrow availability or a forced recall from lenders pushes shorts to cover at any price.
2. GRPN — Squeeze Score 91.5
GRPN is the highest-conviction high-SI name on the board, with 59.2% short interest and 58.1% float utilization — roughly six in ten lendable shares are already out the door. Unlike ENVB, the borrow fee is mild at 1.0%, so shorts pay almost nothing to maintain the position; the squeeze risk is structural rather than cost-driven. Days to cover of 6.7 combined with five-day momentum of +8.4% to $18.84 is the tape that matters: price is already moving against the short book, and the threshold flag confirms more than half of recent volume has been short-side. A positive catalyst into this configuration is what forces mechanical covering.
5. RH — Squeeze Score 75.5
RH is the large-cap on today's board, trading at $136 with 55.8% short interest and a tame 0.4% borrow fee. Days to cover is only 3.2 — exits are theoretically available — but five-day momentum of +10.8% against a 38.0% float utilization is the early-stage squeeze pattern. The threshold flag indicates short-side volume has done the heavy lifting on the way up, which is exactly the configuration where a single upside earnings or guidance revision compounds: shorts that were comfortable at lower prices are now underwater, with no fee-based pain to relieve by holding the position longer.
6. CLSK — Squeeze Score 70.4
CLSK carries 49.5% short interest at $15.87 with five-day momentum of +21.8% — the strongest move-in-progress of any top-10 name today. Borrow fee is negligible at 0.3% and days to cover is 4.5, so the mechanics resemble RH: cheap to short, plenty of exit liquidity in theory, but a tape that has already turned. The squeeze trigger for the Bitcoin-mining cohort is typically a sharp BTC move that forces a sector-wide cover scramble, since the short book is concentrated in the same hash-rate-leveraged trade.
7. RXRX — Squeeze Score 66.3
RXRX is the highest-DTC name in the top 10, with 15.0 days to cover against 34.2% short interest and a 0.8% borrow fee. At $3.00 the low absolute share price historically amplifies percentage moves once covering begins. Five-day momentum of +2.7% is modest, but the threshold flag and 33.4% float utilization tell you the short book is dug in. The setup here is slow-grind: if a clinical-program update or biotech-sector rotation forces shorts to bid against thin offer-side liquidity, 15 days of average volume cannot be absorbed quickly.
These five names anchor Tapeboard's short squeeze leaderboard for the session.
Stocks Flagged on the FINRA Threshold List
The T flag in the table marks symbols on the FINRA Consolidated NMS daily short-volume threshold file — meaning more than 50% of recent reported volume traded on the short side across the trailing seven sessions. It is a signal of sustained short-side participation rather than a one-day spike. Full scoring details live at /methodology/short-squeeze-score.
How the Tapeboard Squeeze Score Is Built
The 0–100 squeeze score blends five inputs: 35% short interest as a percent of float (Yahoo Finance), 25% borrow fee (IBKR via iborrowdesk), 20% float utilization, 15% days to cover, and 5% 5-day price momentum (Schwab). The weighting biases toward the structural scarcity inputs over short-term price action — read the full methodology at /methodology/short-squeeze-score.
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