Top Short-Squeeze Candidates Today: July 14, 2026 — 7-Factor Leaderboard

TL;DR: As of market close on July 14, 2026, GRPN leads Tapeboard's 7-factor squeeze leaderboard with a score of 54.4/100, driven by 67.5% short interest and a 1.4% annualized borrow fee.

Tapeboard's daily squeeze scan ranked 20 stocks by composite score on July 14, 2026, combining seven factors: short interest as a percentage of float, annualized borrow fee, float utilization, the FINRA Consolidated NMS short-volume ratio, days to cover, five-day price momentum, and week-over-week borrow-fee change — each z-scored against a live ~500-stock universe. GRPN is the only name in today's scan with a fully populated factor read at 54.4/100. The remaining 19 low-priced OTC/grey-market names returned no short-interest, borrow-fee, or momentum data and carried sentinel 999.99 days-to-cover readings, producing identical 53.8 floor scores driven entirely by the days-to-cover sentinel — they have been excluded from the leaderboard to avoid publishing degenerate composite scores.

Today's July 14, 2026 Squeeze Score Leaderboard

*Source: Tapeboard composite squeeze model, July 14, 2026. Seven factors z-scored vs a ~500-stock universe. Short interest per FINRA settlement schedule; borrow fees from IBKR stock-loan availability; short-volume from FINRA Consolidated NMS. Not investment advice.*

What Drove Today's Rankings

Across the top 10 of the raw scan, only GRPN carried populated short-interest, borrow-fee, and momentum data. The other nine names — including ABSKF, ACCEF, ACIRF, ACKAF, ACSHF, ADDLF, ADDTF, ADNGF, and AEDGF — each scored 53.8 with every factor except days-to-cover returning null, and days-to-cover sitting at the same 999.99 ceiling rather than a computed estimate. These OTC/grey-market securities were excluded from the leaderboard after data-quality filtering: their 999.99 days-to-cover readings are sentinel values, not real cover estimates, and their resulting 53.8 composite scores are degenerate — driven entirely by the placeholder rather than an active squeeze signal. GRPN is the outlier that separates the board: its 54.4 score is built on real inputs — 67.5% short interest to float, a 1.4% borrow fee, and a FINRA threshold flag. Short interest and borrow fee carry the two largest weights in the model, 35% and 25% respectively, which is why one fully-scored name can pull ahead of — and is the only valid member of — a field of otherwise-identical, data-sparse scores.

Top Names

1. GRPN — Squeeze Score 54.4/100

GRPN's score is primarily driven by short interest equal to 67.5% of its free float, paired with a 6.1x days-to-cover reading. The stock also carries the FINRA threshold flag, indicating short-side volume made up at least 50% of consolidated NMS volume over the past seven sessions, while its annualized borrow fee of 1.4% has ticked up just 0.01 percentage points over five days. Five-day momentum is negative at -4.7%.

Excluded Names

Nineteen OTC/grey-market securities — including ABSKF, ACCEF, ACIRF, ACKAF, ACSHF, ADDLF, ADDTF, ADNGF, and AEDGF — were removed from the leaderboard after data-quality filtering. Each carried an identical 53.8 floor score with null short-interest, borrow-fee, and momentum data and a sentinel 999.99 days-to-cover reading. Their scores are degenerate because short interest (35% weight) and borrow fee (25% weight) carry the two largest weights in the model and were unavailable for all nineteen — the composite becomes unreliable when both null, so they are excluded by design.

Factor Breakdown: How the Score Is Built

The Tapeboard squeeze score estimates short squeeze potential from five weighted components: 35% short interest as a percentage of float (FINRA), 25% annualized borrow fee (IBKR), 20% float utilization, 15% days to cover, and 5% five-day price momentum (Schwab). Each factor is z-scored against a live universe of roughly 500 stocks before being combined into the composite 0-100 score. Full weighting and calculation details are in the methodology.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the top short-squeeze candidates today?

As of July 14, 2026, GRPN leads Tapeboard's squeeze leaderboard with a composite score of 54.4/100, backed by short interest equal to 67.5% of float and a 1.4% annualized borrow fee. Nineteen OTC/grey-market securities were excluded from the leaderboard after data-quality filtering due to null short-interest, borrow-fee, and momentum data paired with sentinel 999.99 days-to-cover readings.

How does Tapeboard calculate its squeeze score?

The score combines seven factors — short interest to float, borrow fee, float utilization, FINRA short-volume ratio, days to cover, five-day momentum, and five-day fee change — each z-scored against a roughly 500-stock universe and weighted (35% short interest, 25% borrow fee, 20% float utilization, 15% days to cover, 5% momentum) into a single 0-100 number.

When does short-interest data update?

Short-interest figures lag by roughly two weeks per the FINRA settlement schedule, while borrow fees refresh daily on a next-day basis from IBKR stock-loan data.

Data and Methodology

• Squeeze score: Tapeboard composite, recomputed nightly
• Short interest: FINRA, ~2-week settlement lag
• Borrow fee: IBKR stock-loan availability, updated daily
• Short-volume threshold: FINRA Consolidated NMS, updated daily
• Momentum: Schwab, end-of-day

See today's highest borrow fees for the full hard-to-borrow ranking, or the live squeeze leaderboard for tomorrow's update.

This post is for educational and informational purposes only and is not investment advice. Short selling carries unlimited downside risk. A quantitative composite does not predict price, and past squeezes are not indicative of future moves. Editor: Marcus Reilly.