Most Shorted Stocks Today: July 8, 2026 — Top 25 Squeeze Candidates
Groupon (GRPN) tops Tapeboard's July 8, 2026 short-squeeze board with a 25.6 score and 70.3% of float sold short, leading a 25-name leaderboard that is entirely flagged on the FINRA threshold list.
July 8, 2026 Most Shorted Stocks: Overview
Groupon (GRPN) tops Tapeboard's short-squeeze board on July 8, 2026 with a Squeeze Score of 25.6, carrying 70.3% of its float sold short and an 8.3-day cover window against a comparatively modest 1.6% borrow fee. The rest of today's 25-name list skews toward small- and mid-cap names with a handful of extreme borrow costs — LCID at 32.7%, BYND at 28.4%, and CRMT at 10.8% — while every single symbol on the board is flagged for sustained heavy short-side volume.
July 8, 2026 Top 25 Short-Squeeze Candidates
The table below ranks today's candidates by Squeeze Score, with columns for short interest as a percentage of float, borrow fee, and days to cover. Rank numbers reflect each symbol's position in Tapeboard's full internal screen, so gaps in the sequence below are expected — this table shows only the names that also cleared the threshold-list filter.
| Rank | Symbol | Squeeze Score | SI % Float | Borrow Fee | Days to Cover | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | GRPN | 25.6 | 70.3% | 1.6% | 8.3 | T |
| 5 | ELF | 20.9 | 49.9% | 0.4% | 2.6 | T |
| 7 | CRMT | 19.9 | 41.7% | 10.8% | 1.0 | T |
| 8 | CHWY | 19.2 | 46.5% | 0.3% | 2.4 | T |
| 11 | BEAM | 18.5 | 32.2% | 0.3% | 14.2 | T |
| 12 | RH | 18.1 | 38.6% | 0.5% | 4.9 | T |
| 13 | RUM | 17.4 | 34.9% | 9.1% | 6.7 | T |
| 14 | EVGO | 16.9 | 34.8% | 1.0% | 9.9 | T |
| 16 | SPCE | 16.6 | 35.9% | 9.7% | 1.0 | T |
| 17 | RXRX | 16.4 | 35.9% | 0.5% | 8.4 | T |
| 18 | CSIQ | 16.1 | 31.6% | 1.7% | 5.4 | T |
| 19 | LCID | 16.0 | 38.2% | 32.7% | 4.3 | T |
| 20 | MDGL | 15.9 | 27.0% | 0.3% | 14.3 | T |
| 21 | IBRX | 15.9 | 34.3% | 2.0% | 12.0 | T |
| 22 | NTLA | 15.8 | 37.5% | 0.4% | 7.5 | T |
| 23 | ARCT | 15.7 | 25.7% | 0.6% | 17.7 | T |
| 24 | CRSP | 15.7 | 27.7% | 0.4% | 16.4 | T |
| 25 | RCKT | 15.7 | 25.0% | 0.3% | 8.4 | T |
| 26 | DAVE | 15.6 | 25.7% | 0.3% | 3.7 | T |
| 27 | TRIP | 15.6 | 29.9% | 0.4% | 6.8 | T |
| 28 | ASAN | 15.6 | 34.4% | 0.4% | 4.8 | T |
| 29 | PRME | 15.6 | 28.3% | 0.4% | 11.3 | T |
| 30 | KOD | 15.4 | 26.7% | 0.4% | 13.7 | T |
| 31 | BYND | 15.4 | 29.5% | 28.4% | 3.9 | T |
| 32 | SRPT | 15.3 | 26.6% | 0.4% | 9.1 | T |
The Five Highest-Scoring Names on July 8, 2026
4. GRPN — Squeeze Score 25.6
GRPN leads today's board at $25.54 with 70.3% of its float sold short — the highest concentration on the list — against an 8.3-day cover window and 5-day momentum of +6.1%. Its float utilization sits at essentially the same 70.3%, meaning the short position tracked against the float is close to fully accounted for. The borrow fee is still only 1.6%, cheap relative to the concentration of the short base, so this is a name where a further tightening in stock-loan supply — rather than price action alone — would be the mechanical trigger for lenders to pull shares and force buy-ins.
5. ELF — Squeeze Score 20.9
ELF carries 49.9% short interest against float at $73.53, but its 2.6-day cover window is the shortest among today's top five and its borrow fee is a cheap 0.4%. This is a high-SI, high-liquidity setup: half the float is short, but the position could theoretically unwind in under three days of normal volume. Five-day momentum is flat at +0.2%, so a squeeze here would need a sharp, sudden move to overwhelm that liquidity rather than a slow grind.
7. CRMT — Squeeze Score 19.9
CRMT is the clearest high-fee, tight-float setup in today's top five: a 10.8% borrow fee, 41.7% of float short, a 1.0-day cover window, and 5-day momentum already running at +18.6% on a $3.34 share price. Days to cover this low mean shorts can typically exit fast, but the expensive borrow cost punishes holding the position, and the momentum already in motion is the kind of price pressure that compounds carrying costs for anyone staying short.
8. CHWY — Squeeze Score 19.2
CHWY pairs 46.5% short interest against float with a cheap 0.3% borrow fee and a 2.4-day cover window at $20.61, closely mirroring ELF's profile: a large short base in a liquid name where covering is mechanically fast. Momentum is modestly positive at +4.6%, so the setup depends more on a sustained move than a single-day spike to force meaningful covering.
11. BEAM — Squeeze Score 18.5
BEAM stands out for its 14.2-day cover window — by far the longest in today's top five — against 32.2% short interest, a 0.3% borrow fee, and +7.5% momentum at $37.06. A long cover window means the short base here can't exit quickly even if it wanted to, so any volume spike, whether from a catalyst or from other shorts starting to cover, would compress that multi-week window fast and put outsized pressure on the stock's limited daily liquidity.
Stocks Flagged on the FINRA Threshold List
Every name on today's board carries a T flag, meaning it appears on the FINRA threshold list — short volume has run at 50% or more of total volume on a sustained basis over the last seven trading days. A T flag alone doesn't guarantee a short squeeze, but it does confirm one-sided short pressure that's persisted long enough to show up in FINRA's own data, rather than a single noisy session. Full mechanics are on the methodology page.
How the Tapeboard Squeeze Score Is Built
The score blends five inputs: 35% short interest as a percentage of float (FINRA), 25% borrow fee (IBKR stock-loan data), 20% float utilization, 15% days to cover, and 5% five-day price momentum (Schwab), with short-volume threshold status layered on from FINRA's daily file under SEC reporting rules. Full weighting and calculation detail is on the methodology page.
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