American Water Works (AWK) Faces Potential Short Squeeze

Published in Stocks and Investing on Friday, August 1st 2025 at 10:30 GMT by WOPRAI
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In the past 20 years (since 2005 with the introduction of RegSho), short selling has come under scrutiny as millions of retail investors have discovered what we have been highlighting since early 2005. Market makers abuse the “market maker’s exemption” and short excessive amounts of shares in your stock without locating, borrowing, paying the rebate or the interest rate to borrow. They are required to cover on the same trading day, and our data proves they do not.

The chart below shows “Daily Short Volume” in American Water Works Company, Inc. (AWK), and includes both EXEMPT (market makers) and NON-EXEMPT (everyone else) short sales. We consolidate the tape of all 14 US stock exchanges and purchase the “sell short” trade identifier data directly from the exchanges on a daily basis. This complete view of the trading in your stock shows a vastly different picture than “Total Short Interest”, which only includes non-exempt short sales that have not been covered by the twice per month reporting date. Unfortunately, this misses the majority of the short selling.

This indicates that a Short Squeeze may be starting in shares of American Water Works Company, Inc. at $144.33, after crossing above the $141.327 Trigger Price. This could signal a buying opportunity, given the right market conditions.

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Please find the applicable data below, drawn from all major market providers.

Date	Short Volume	Total Volume	Percentage	Squeeze Trigger	$ Value
2025-07-31	1,242,811	2,385,819	52.09	139.94	173,918,971
2025-07-30	554,896	1,108,697	50.05	140.09	77,735,381
2025-07-29	418,604	1,292,118	32.4	139.93	58,575,258
2025-07-28	524,494	1,518,014	34.55	138.92	72,862,706
2025-07-25	401,345	1,057,909	37.94	140.23	56,280,609
2025-07-24	491,897	1,592,918	30.88	140.91	69,313,206
2025-07-23	564,922	1,379,282	40.96	141.99	80,213,275
2025-07-22	523,959	1,327,522	39.47	144.95	75,947,857
2025-07-21	451,385	943,393	47.85	143.14	64,611,249
2025-07-18	844,994	2,500,856	33.79	142.98	120,817,242
2025-07-17	433,700	1,384,360	31.33	141.72	61,463,964
2025-07-16	519,418	939,907	55.26	141.51	73,502,841
2025-07-15	561,969	1,140,362	49.28	141.34	79,428,698
2025-07-14	569,356	1,141,247	49.89	143.27	81,571,634
2025-07-11	574,721	1,165,730	49.3	142.09	81,662,107
2025-07-10	372,486	922,212	40.39	142.7	53,153,752
2025-07-09	654,767	1,633,615	40.08	141.5	92,649,531
2025-07-08	909,397	1,868,714	48.66	140.39	127,670,245
2025-07-07	478,935	1,093,743	43.79	139.82	66,964,692
2025-07-03	336,767	683,711	49.26	140.17	47,204,630
2025-07-02	692,606	1,395,712	49.62	140.88	97,574,333
2025-07-01	721,447	1,397,673	51.62	142.17	102,568,120
2025-06-30	450,581	1,640,607	27.46	138.69	62,491,079
2025-06-27	595,850	1,985,420	30.01	137.95	82,197,508
2025-06-26	559,585	1,352,976	41.36	138.69	77,608,844
2025-06-25	463,357	1,077,404	43.01	140.13	64,930,216
2025-06-24	561,130	934,219	60.06	142.38	79,893,689
2025-06-23	577,015	1,086,891	53.09	143.66	82,893,975
2025-06-20	1,202,468	3,769,246	31.9	141.21	169,800,506
2025-06-18	590,353	1,380,379	42.77	140.96	83,216,159
2025-06-17	733,410	1,403,980	52.24	140.42	102,985,432
2025-06-16	683,670	1,296,139	52.75	140.67	96,171,859
2025-06-13	442,423	907,894	48.73	141.68	62,682,491
2025-06-12	407,942	1,044,535	39.05	141.18	57,593,252
2025-06-11	498,274	1,000,469	49.8	140.82	70,166,945
2025-06-10	546,038	1,093,800	49.92	141.1	77,045,962
2025-06-09	466,844	894,849	52.17	139.42	65,087,390

Total	450,485,887	1,485,546,411	30.32	141.32	63,663,911,102

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-03 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.