Short interest · FINRA / NYSE / Nasdaq

Who’s being shorted hardest right now.

FINRA requires every member firm to disclose short positions twice a month. We aggregate the most-shorted U.S. equities — by % of float, days-to-cover, and recent change. The same data the “short squeeze” setups are built from.

Highest concentration

Top by % of float

#	Ticker	% of float	Shares short	DTC	Δ
1	BYND Beyond Meat, Inc.	42.0%	29M	6.8	+3.2%
2	LCID Lucid Group, Inc.	35.0%	290M	7.5	+12.0%
3	UPST Upstart Holdings, Inc.	31.5%	25M	5.6	+1.8%
4	CVNA Carvana Co.	28.5%	35M	4.2	-8.0%
5	PLUG Plug Power Inc.	27.0%	280M	4.5	+8.4%
6	FUBO fuboTV Inc.	24.0%	40M	5.2	+4.0%
7	GME GameStop Corp.	22.0%	60M	3.1	+5.4%
8	NVAX Novavax, Inc.	22.0%	32M	6.2	+7.0%
9	AMC AMC Entertainment Holdings	18.5%	95M	2.4	-2.1%
10	AFRM Affirm Holdings, Inc.	18.2%	38M	3.4	-6.5%

Remove with Pro →

Liquidity-adjusted squeeze risk

Highest days-to-cover

Shorts adding

Biggest builds

Shorts covering

Biggest unwinds

BBBYQ

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (in liquidation)

-50.0%

vs prior

DJT

Trump Media & Technology Group

-15.0%

vs prior

SOFI

SoFi Technologies, Inc.

Affirm Holdings, Inc.

-6.5%

vs prior

RIVN

Rivian Automotive, Inc.

-4.2%

vs prior

How to read this data

Short interest is the total shares sold short but not yet repurchased. % of float divides that by the publicly tradable share count — anything above 20% is heavily shorted. Days-to-cover (DTC) is shares-short divided by average daily trading volume — how many days at normal volume it would take to repurchase every shorted share.

High short interest is BOTH a squeeze setup AND a smart-money conviction signal. GameStop in 2021 was an example of the squeeze dynamic; Beyond Meat’s persistent 40%+ short interest is an example of the conviction signal.

→ How short interest works → Insider buys

Deep dive

How short selling actually works

Crowded shorts, squeezes and the psychology behind them — the books that explain the mechanics on this page.

Benjamin Graham

The Intelligent Investor

The foundational text. Buffett calls it 'by far the best book about investing ever written.'

View on Amazon →

Benjamin Graham & David Dodd

Security Analysis

The deep dive behind The Intelligent Investor — how to actually read a filing and value a business.

View on Amazon →

Charles T. Munger

Poor Charlie's Almanack

The latticework of mental models Munger used to sanity-check every bet Berkshire ever made.

View on Amazon →

Howard Marks

The Most Important Thing

Oaktree's Marks on risk, cycles, and second-level thinking — the framework behind reading any 13F.

View on Amazon →

Peter Lynch

One Up On Wall Street

The clearest writing about spotting great businesses early. Lynch compounded ~29% a year for 13 years.

View on Amazon →

Prefer to listen? Start a free Audible trial

New Audible members only · 30-day trial · many of these titles are included with membership.

See the full investing reading list →

Amazon affiliate links — as an Amazon Associate, HoldLens earns from qualifying purchases and membership trials at no extra cost to you. These are books we genuinely recommend. Always do your own research.