Most Shorted Stocks Today: September 7, 2026 — Top 25 Squeeze Candidates

On September 7, 2026, SVRA tops the Tapeboard squeeze leaderboard with a score of 34.9, backed by 29.6% short interest and a punishing 27.1 days to cover. The day's defining anomaly is RGC, where the borrow fee sits at 236.8% annualized despite only 1.8% of float sold short. Nearly every name on the board — 22 of 25 — is flagged on the FINRA threshold list, signaling sustained heavy short-side volume across the tape.

September 7, 2026 Top 25 Short Squeeze Candidates

Rank	Symbol	Squeeze Score	SI % Float	Borrow Fee	Days to Cover	T
8	SVRA	34.9	29.6%	2.8%	27.1	T
11	RGC	32.9	1.8%	236.8%	4.7	T
12	LEU	32.8	29.4%	0.6%	9.4	T
16	FAF	31.7	5.6%	0.3%	8.9	T
17	WB	31.1	19.2%	1.3%	22.0	T
18	FCFS	31.0	5.9%	0.3%	6.8	T
20	ZH	30.8	3.3%	0.4%	6.3	T
21	BILI	30.7	8.1%	0.8%	9.9	T
22	MTB	30.7	3.9%	—	6.9	T
23	EH	30.7	15.2%	1.5%	16.3	T
25	LZ	30.2	10.6%	0.4%	2.9	T
26	TOL	30.2	3.9%	—	4.9	T
27	PAYS	30.0	4.3%	—	1.6	T
29	ETN	29.9	1.7%	—	3.2	T
30	CYDY	29.6	2.6%	8.5%	17.1
31	LXRX	29.5	12.5%	0.5%	10.9	T
32	GRBK	29.4	5.9%	0.4%	9.0	T
33	GETY	29.4	5.6%	—	2.0	T
35	IQ	29.3	13.4%	0.4%	13.2	T
36	GENI	29.3	15.1%	0.3%	3.5	T
37	GCT	29.3	14.2%	0.3%	4.6	T
38	FNV	29.2	1.8%	—	4.0	T
39	SRPT	29.0	28.6%	0.4%	9.1	T
41	WSM	28.9	4.6%	0.4%	5.7	T
42	IDYA	28.9	11.9%	0.3%	16.5	T

Top 5 Short Squeeze Candidates on September 7, 2026

1. SVRA — Squeeze Score 34.9

SVRA leads the board with the day's most complete squeeze profile: 29.6% of float sold short, 27.1 days to cover, and a 2.8% borrow fee at a $5.39 share price. This is the classic high-SI, high-days-to-cover setup — shorts are deep in the position and would need nearly a month of average volume to exit. The name is also up 2.1% over the past five days, meaning early covering may already be underway. If any positive catalyst forces acceleration, the thin exit liquidity is the mechanism that turns a grind into a short squeeze.

2. RGC — Squeeze Score 32.9

RGC is the fee story of the day. The borrow fee sits at 236.8% annualized — by far the highest on the board — while short interest is only 1.8% of float and days to cover is a modest 4.7 at a $6.71 share price. This is a hard-to-borrow setup, not a crowded-short setup: lenders are charging extreme rates because supply is scarce. Shorts paying 236.8% annualized bleed roughly 0.65% per day just to hold the position. If borrow availability tightens further or lenders recall shares, forced buy-ins can trigger a squeeze regardless of how small the aggregate short position is.

3. LEU — Squeeze Score 32.8

LEU pairs 29.4% short interest with 9.4 days to cover at a $173.85 share price — the second-highest SI on the board, and on a large-priced name rather than a micro-cap. The borrow fee is a negligible 0.6%, so shorts are not under cost pressure yet; the pressure here is positional. Five-day momentum is -1.1%, meaning shorts are currently winning. A squeeze requires a catalyst that reverses the drift — with nearly 30% of the float short, any sustained bid forces mechanical covering.

4. FAF — Squeeze Score 31.7

FAF is a moderate-everything setup: 5.6% of float short, 8.9 days to cover, a 0.3% borrow fee, and a $72.00 share price. No single metric is extreme, but the combination plus a FINRA threshold flag keeps it high on the board. This is the kind of name where a squeeze is driven by threshold-list persistence — continued settlement failures and heavy short volume — rather than by borrow costs. If short volume stays above 50% of total volume, the overhang compounds.

5. WB — Squeeze Score 31.1

WB combines 19.2% short interest with 22.0 days to cover — the second-longest cover window on the board — at a $6.75 share price with a 1.3% borrow fee. Five-day momentum is -3.9%, so shorts are pressing. With nearly a month of volume needed to cover, any reversal in momentum would put a large, slow-to-exit short base on the wrong side of the trade. Traders reviewing how similar setups played out historically often journal entries and exits against days-to-cover extremes; see how Tapeboard compares as a TradeZella alternative for that workflow.

Stocks Flagged on the FINRA Threshold List

The "T" column marks symbols on the FINRA short-volume threshold list, meaning more than 50% of recent trading volume was short-side within the last seven trading days — sustained pressure, not a one-day spike. Of today's top 25, only CYDY (29.6 score, 8.5% borrow fee) lacks the flag. See the full scoring breakdown at /methodology/short-squeeze-score.

How the Squeeze Score Is Built

The Tapeboard squeeze score runs 0–100 and weights five inputs: 35% SI%Float (FINRA), 25% Borrow Fee, 20% float utilization, 15% Days to Cover, and 5% five-day momentum, with corporate data cross-checked against SEC filings. Full methodology: /methodology/short-squeeze-score.

Tomorrow's Update

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