Short Interest — September 3, 2026

Short-Squeeze Watch

FINRA consolidated short interest as of 2026-08-14. Scanned 1145 US tickers; 34 crossed the squeeze threshold — showing the top 25 by score.

⭐ 4 of these also show open-market insider buying in the last 90 days — the higher-conviction squeeze × insider subset, which is the only subset with a real forward edge in backtest. These are listed first and marked ⭐.

Ticker	Score	Insider Buy	Short % Float	Days-to-Cover	DTC z	Δ Short Int
INR	1.21	⭐ $609K	19.1%	11.0	2.6	-3%
SON	1.14	⭐ $249K	11.0%	12.6	3.0	-7%
UUUU	1.11	⭐ $51K	21.4%	6.9	2.0	+4%
KLAR	1.11	⭐ $9.9M	16.2%	9.9	2.2	-3%
AI	1.47	—	34.7%	11.5	2.0	+4%
IRON	1.31	—	22.3%	24.8	3.0	-1%
GFL	1.30	—	7.5%	12.4	3.9	+2%
RHI	1.26	—	24.5%	14.0	2.3	-6%
RNA	1.23	—	23.1%	27.5	2.3	-1%
CHTR	1.21	—	19.9%	12.3	1.7	+2%
CPB	1.17	—	21.7%	9.1	2.3	-13%
BEKE	1.15	—	3.9%	10.3	3.1	+4%
PCVX	1.14	—	10.8%	15.9	2.2	+2%
TAP	1.12	—	17.3%	10.1	2.1	-4%
TNL	1.11	—	11.5%	11.2	2.7	-1%
TEM	1.11	—	25.8%	7.3	2.1	-10%
KMB	1.10	—	13.4%	11.8	1.6	+1%
LEN	1.10	—	8.6%	9.0	2.5	+3%
NE	1.09	—	9.4%	12.4	2.8	-1%
SPTX	1.07	—	16.3%	25.1	1.0	+9%
MGA	1.06	—	4.1%	9.2	2.7	+13%
GPCR	1.06	—	11.1%	10.4	1.5	+0%
CRSP	1.06	—	19.5%	15.6	1.3	-0%
LYV	1.06	—	15.6%	12.2	1.8	-0%
GOLD	1.06	—	16.1%	8.0	1.7	+4%

Charts

INR

SON

UUUU

KLAR

AI

IRON

GFL

RHI

RNA

CHTR

CPB

BEKE

How to read this: a higher score means a more crowded, harder-to-cover short base that is still building while price reclaims its 50-day moving average — the classic squeeze setup. Days-to-cover is recomputed as shares-short / average-daily-volume (FINRA floors its own value at 1.00); the z-score compares it to the ticker's own history. Short interest is reported fortnightly with a ~2-day publication lag, so treat this as a swing-horizon watchlist, not an intraday signal.