Most Shorted Stocks Today: July 9, 2026 — Top 25 Squeeze Candidates
Groupon (GRPN) leads Tapeboard's July 9, 2026 short-squeeze board with a 53.4 score on 70.3% short interest, while 24 of the top 25 names carry a sustained FINRA short-volume threshold flag.
Most Shorted Stocks on July 9, 2026
GRPN tops Tapeboard's short squeeze leaderboard on July 9, 2026 with a score of 53.4, the highest in today's data, built on short interest equal to 70.3% of its float against a days to cover figure of 8.3 and a comparatively cheap 1.6% borrow fee. The rest of the board splits into two recognizable camps: heavily-shorted, cheap-to-borrow names like ELF (49.9% short interest, 0.4% fee) and CHWY (46.5%, 0.3% fee), and expensive-to-borrow names where fee pressure is doing the work — LCID at a 28.4% fee, BYND at 23.7%, and CRMT at 10.4%. Twenty-four of today's 25 names carry the FINRA threshold flag, meaning sustained heavy short-side volume, not just elevated short interest, is the dominant pattern in this session's data.
July 9, 2026 Top 25 Short Squeeze Candidates
| Rank | Symbol | Squeeze Score | SI % Float | Borrow Fee | Days to Cover | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | GRPN | 53.4 | 70.3% | 1.6% | 8.3 | T |
| 5 | ELF | 42.1 | 49.9% | 0.4% | 2.6 | T |
| 6 | CRMT | 40.7 | 41.7% | 10.4% | 1.0 | T |
| 8 | CHWY | 38.3 | 46.5% | 0.3% | 2.4 | T |
| 10 | BEAM | 36.2 | 32.2% | 0.3% | 14.2 | T |
| 11 | RH | 34.6 | 38.6% | 0.4% | 4.9 | T |
| 12 | RUM | 33.6 | 34.9% | 8.2% | 6.7 | T |
| 13 | SPCE | 33.6 | 35.9% | 9.5% | 1.0 | T |
| 14 | RXRX | 33.5 | 35.9% | 0.5% | 8.4 | T |
| 15 | LCID | 33.1 | 38.2% | 28.4% | 4.3 | T |
| 16 | EVGO | 32.6 | 34.8% | 1.0% | 9.9 | T |
| 17 | RCKT | 32.6 | 25.2% | 0.3% | 8.4 | T |
| 18 | PLAY | 32.6 | 40.0% | 0.3% | 5.6 | T |
| 19 | CSIQ | 32.4 | 31.6% | 1.8% | 5.4 | T |
| 20 | TRIP | 32.1 | 29.9% | 0.4% | 6.8 | T |
| 21 | ASAN | 31.8 | 34.4% | 0.4% | 4.8 | T |
| 23 | MDGL | 31.4 | 27.0% | 0.3% | 14.3 | T |
| 24 | AI | 31.2 | 32.5% | 0.5% | 4.4 | T |
| 25 | KOD | 30.7 | 26.7% | 0.4% | 13.7 | T |
| 26 | IBRX | 30.6 | 34.3% | 2.3% | 12.0 | T |
| 27 | INDI | 30.6 | 30.9% | 1.7% | 12.1 | T |
| 28 | NVAX | 30.5 | 31.9% | 0.5% | 10.8 | T |
| 29 | NTLA | 30.4 | 37.6% | 0.3% | 7.5 | |
| 30 | PATH | 30.0 | 30.8% | 0.4% | 2.6 | T |
| 31 | BYND | 29.8 | 29.5% | 23.7% | 3.9 | T |
Top 5 Setups to Watch
4. GRPN — Squeeze Score 53.4
GRPN carries the highest score on today's board at 53.4, and the read is dominated by short interest rather than borrow cost: 70.3% of the float is sold short against a fee of just 1.6%, meaning stock is still easy to locate despite the crowding. Days to cover sits at 8.3 and shares are up 3.6% over the past five sessions. This is a high-SI, cheap-borrow setup — the squeeze mechanics here depend less on lenders pulling supply and more on continued buying pressure forcing shorts to chase, since the low fee gives the short side little economic incentive to cover on its own.
5. ELF — Squeeze Score 42.1
ELF ranks second at 42.1, with just under half the float — 49.9% — sold short but a razor-thin 0.4% borrow fee and a 2.6-day cover ratio, the fastest of the top five. Shares are down 3.8% over five days. The setup is a heavily-shorted, large-float name where the short side is neither paying up nor struggling to find supply, so a squeeze would need a genuine shift in the fundamental picture to force covering rather than fee pressure doing it mechanically.
6. CRMT — Squeeze Score 40.7
CRMT is the clearest high-cost setup in the top five: a 10.4% borrow fee against 41.7% short interest, a 1.0-day cover ratio, and shares already up 24.7% over the past week. The combination of a sub-$4 share price, an expensive borrow, and a full day-or-less cover window is the profile of a squeeze that already has momentum behind it — the float utilization and threshold flag both point toward short-side capitulation being underway rather than merely possible.
8. CHWY — Squeeze Score 38.3
CHWY sits at 38.3 with 46.5% of its float sold short but a borrow fee of only 0.3% and a 2.4-day cover ratio, essentially flat on momentum at +0.3% over five days. Like ELF, this is a heavily-shorted but cheap-to-borrow name — the share count supports a squeeze, but the carrying cost doesn't, so a sentiment-driven catalyst would need to do the work that fee pressure isn't doing here.
10. BEAM — Squeeze Score 36.2
BEAM rounds out the top five at 36.2, distinguished by the longest days-to-cover figure in the group at 14.2 against a moderate 32.2% short interest and a low 0.3% fee. Shares are up 7.0% over the past five days. A 14-day cover window means any forced buying would take considerably longer to clear the market than a name like CRMT — this looks like a setup where sustained upward momentum, rather than a single squeeze event, grinds out short covering over time.
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 — specifically, short volume made up 50% or more of total volume across recent sessions within the last seven trading days. Twenty-four of today's 25 names carry this flag; only NTLA is absent from the threshold list despite its 37.6% short interest. See the full scoring breakdown at /methodology/short-squeeze-score.
How the Squeeze Score Is Built
Tapeboard's squeeze score weights 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). Full methodology, including how each component is calculated, is at /methodology/short-squeeze-score.
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