United Bankshares (UBSI) Faces Potential Short Squeeze

Published in Stocks and Investing on Monday, August 4th 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 United Bankshares, Inc. (UBSI), 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 United Bankshares, Inc. at $35.43, after crossing above the $35.076 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
2025-08-01	432,587	780,600	55.42	35.01	15,144,871
2025-07-31	317,837	781,791	40.65	35.53	11,292,749
2025-07-30	246,729	626,809	39.36	35.93	8,864,973
2025-07-29	258,864	617,743	41.9	36.35	9,409,706
2025-07-28	372,785	882,613	42.24	36.72	13,688,665
2025-07-25	278,879	755,848	36.9	36.24	10,106,575
2025-07-24	542,872	1,070,396	50.72	36.83	19,993,976
2025-07-23	476,773	970,535	49.12	36.82	17,554,782
2025-07-22	373,618	876,468	42.63	37.16	13,883,645
2025-07-21	280,120	631,228	44.38	37.3	10,448,476
2025-07-18	679,328	2,669,971	25.44	37.31	25,345,728
2025-07-17	571,267	945,674	60.41	37.36	21,342,535
2025-07-16	599,692	1,075,402	55.76	36.6	21,948,727
2025-07-15	310,016	675,532	45.89	36.89	11,436,490
2025-07-14	248,744	684,025	36.36	37.83	9,409,986
2025-07-11	308,846	625,424	49.38	37.68	11,637,317
2025-07-10	347,362	661,678	52.5	38.31	13,307,438
2025-07-09	265,219	486,909	54.47	38.13	10,112,800
2025-07-08	374,077	750,946	49.81	38.22	14,297,223
2025-07-07	559,583	868,324	64.44	37.86	21,185,812
2025-07-03	334,391	568,117	58.86	38.4	12,840,614
2025-07-02	452,604	808,608	55.97	37.93	17,167,270
2025-07-01	594,561	1,226,206	48.49	37.42	22,248,473
2025-06-30	504,008	844,488	59.68	36.53	18,411,412
2025-06-27	1,013,560	2,076,366	48.81	36.46	36,954,398
2025-06-26	307,188	575,306	53.4	36.59	11,240,009
2025-06-25	614,752	1,100,134	55.88	36.12	22,204,842
2025-06-24	696,227	1,168,787	59.57	36.5	25,412,286
2025-06-23	519,001	946,643	54.83	35.64	18,497,196
2025-06-20	1,046,563	2,145,760	48.77	34.91	36,535,514
2025-06-18	452,060	788,380	57.34	34.81	15,736,209
2025-06-17	343,212	679,496	50.51	34.65	11,892,296
2025-06-16	390,480	792,632	49.26	35.08	13,698,038
2025-06-13	351,245	551,101	63.74	35.29	12,395,436
2025-06-12	249,884	434,775	57.47	36.28	9,065,792
2025-06-11	348,085	600,012	58.01	36.58	12,732,949
2025-06-10	322,800	548,777	58.82	37.01	11,946,828

Total	338,686,859	797,451,616	42.47	35.08	11,881,705,266

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-05 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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United Bankshares (UBSI) Faces Potential Short Squeeze