Most Shorted Stocks Today: June 1, 2026 — Top 25 Squeeze Candidates
On June 1, 2026, Groupon (GRPN) tops Tapeboard's most-shorted leaderboard with a perfect 100 squeeze score on 58.1% short interest, while GOVX carries a 551.2% borrow fee and gene-editing biotech names crowd the rest of the top 25.
On June 1, 2026, Groupon (GRPN) sits at the top of Tapeboard's most-shorted leaderboard with a perfect squeeze score of 100, built on 58.1% short interest as a share of float, a 0.8% borrow fee, and 4.9 days to cover — and it is flagged on the FINRA threshold list. The broader board is a study in contrast: most names carry single-digit borrow fees, but two outliers — GOVX at a 551.2% annualized fee and TOPS at 30.4% — show where stock-loan supply has genuinely seized up. Gene-editing and biotech names (NTLA, RXRX, BEAM, CRSP, NVAX) cluster through the middle of the table, and 20 of the 25 candidates sit on the threshold list.
June 1, 2026 Top 25 Short Squeeze Candidates
These are the 25 names with the highest short squeeze potential on Tapeboard's June 1, 2026 board, ranked by squeeze score.
| Rank | Symbol | Squeeze Score | SI % Float | Borrow Fee | Days to Cover | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GRPN | 100 | 58.1% | 0.8% | 4.9 | T |
| 2 | RH | 92.6 | 57.3% | 0.4% | 6.3 | T |
| 3 | TOPS | 90.3 | 45.0% | 30.4% | 1.2 | |
| 5 | GOVX | 84.7 | 13.6% | 551.2% | 1.0 | T |
| 6 | NTLA | 81.5 | 46.8% | 0.4% | 6.2 | T |
| 7 | RXRX | 79.9 | 36.8% | 0.9% | 14.4 | T |
| 8 | BEAM | 75.7 | 39.9% | 0.3% | 12.2 | T |
| 9 | CLSK | 73.7 | 45.8% | 0.3% | 4.1 | T |
| 10 | BTDR | 72.6 | 34.8% | 0.6% | 7.6 | |
| 11 | EVGO | 72.4 | 33.6% | 0.6% | 11.9 | T |
| 12 | IBRX | 71.3 | 34.2% | 2.5% | 10.4 | T |
| 13 | CRSP | 70.6 | 32.4% | 0.5% | 15.1 | T |
| 14 | AI | 70.5 | 35.5% | 0.4% | 10.1 | |
| 15 | TWST | 70.2 | 34.2% | 0.3% | 11.3 | T |
| 17 | LCID | 67.7 | 37.9% | 14.0% | 2.6 | |
| 18 | PLAY | 67.2 | 34.4% | 0.4% | 5.2 | |
| 19 | ARCT | 66.6 | 28.8% | 0.5% | 16.0 | T |
| 20 | TRIP | 66.5 | 32.5% | 0.4% | 10.5 | T |
| 21 | KOD | 65.7 | 25.9% | 0.4% | 16.2 | T |
| 23 | INDI | 64.2 | 29.3% | 2.2% | 10.5 | T |
| 24 | CSIQ | 63.7 | 31.4% | 1.0% | 6.7 | T |
| 25 | NVAX | 62.0 | 27.7% | 0.5% | 9.1 | T |
| 26 | UPST | 61.9 | 32.0% | 0.4% | 5.3 | T |
| 27 | ASAN | 60.6 | 33.2% | 0.4% | 4.7 | T |
| 28 | SVRA | 60.6 | 15.9% | 0.4% | 22.3 | T |
Top 5 Most Shorted Stocks on June 1, 2026
1. GRPN — Squeeze Score 100
GRPN earns the maximum score on the strength of crowding rather than cost: 58.1% of its float is sold short, roughly 55% of the float is held short outright, and it clears the threshold list. The borrow is cheap at 0.8%, so shorts are not being squeezed by carry — they are squeezed by positioning. With 4.9 days to cover, any forced buy-in would have to move through a tight exit at $19.08. The mechanic to watch is simple: if a positive catalyst forces even a fraction of that short book to cover, there is little room to do it quietly.
2. RH — Squeeze Score 92.6
RH mirrors GRPN's profile at a higher price point — 57.3% short interest against the float, a 0.4% borrow, and 6.3 days to cover at $148.13. This is a high-conviction, low-cost short stack on a name that trades in size. Threshold-flagged status means more than half of recent volume has printed short-side. The squeeze condition here is duration: at 6.3 days to cover, a sustained bid would take days to unwind, and that delay is what compresses the exit.
3. TOPS — Squeeze Score 90.3
TOPS is the hard-to-borrow setup. At a sub-$1 price of $0.919, it pairs 45.0% short interest with a 30.4% annualized borrow fee and 65.5% of its float held short — the highest float-held-short reading in the top five. It is the one top-five name not on the threshold list, and days to cover is just 1.2, meaning volume could absorb covering quickly if it happened. The catalyst is supply: if borrow availability tightens further, the carry cost alone starts forcing decisions.
5. GOVX — Squeeze Score 84.7
GOVX is the fee story of the day. Short interest is modest at 13.6%, but the 551.2% annualized borrow fee is the single most extreme reading on the board, and days to cover is just 1.0 at a $2.26 price. This is a cost-driven setup, not a crowding one: shorts are bleeding carry every day they stay in. It is threshold-flagged. When borrow is this expensive and supply this thin, the squeeze mechanic is the fee itself — the position becomes uneconomic to hold before it becomes wrong.
6. NTLA — Squeeze Score 81.5
NTLA anchors the gene-editing cluster with 46.8% short interest, a cheap 0.4% borrow, 6.2 days to cover, and threshold-list status at $13.72. Like GRPN and RH, this is a positioning squeeze rather than a fee squeeze — the cost to stay short is low, but the crowd is large. With nearly half the float committed short, a sector-wide catalyst that forces covering would have to clear a multi-day exit.
Stocks Flagged on the FINRA Threshold List
The T column marks names showing sustained heavy short pressure on the FINRA Consolidated NMS daily short-volume file — more than 50% of recent volume printing short-side across the last seven trading days. Twenty of today's 25 candidates carry the flag, including all five of the top names except TOPS. A full breakdown of how the flag feeds the score lives at /methodology/short-squeeze-score.
How the Tapeboard Squeeze Score Is Built
The squeeze score is a weighted blend: 35% short interest as a share of float (Yahoo), 25% borrow fee (IBKR via iborrowdesk), 20% float utilization, 15% days to cover, and 5% 5-day price momentum (Schwab). That weighting is why GRPN's extreme crowding and GOVX's extreme fee can both reach the top of the board from opposite directions. The full scoring breakdown is at /methodology/short-squeeze-score.
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