Middleby Corp (MIDD) Faces Potential Short Squeeze

Published in Stocks and Investing on Tuesday, August 5th 2025 at 13:45 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 The Middleby Corporation (MIDD), 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 The Middleby Corporation at $144.58, after crossing above the $143.706 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
2025-08-04	333,288	779,188	42.77	141.88	47,286,901
2025-08-01	380,229	835,777	45.49	141.77	53,905,065
2025-07-31	353,731	801,020	44.16	145.13	51,336,980
2025-07-30	302,794	726,539	41.68	145.04	43,917,242
2025-07-29	287,185	684,075	41.98	147.14	42,256,401
2025-07-28	231,949	549,459	42.21	149.55	34,687,973
2025-07-25	200,425	536,703	37.34	149	29,863,325
2025-07-24	183,647	549,911	33.4	148.64	27,297,290
2025-07-23	572,893	1,031,856	55.52	150	85,933,950
2025-07-22	402,314	785,973	51.19	148.48	59,735,583
2025-07-21	526,500	1,286,277	40.93	146.05	76,895,325
2025-07-18	180,661	504,527	35.81	146.43	26,454,190
2025-07-17	192,330	636,437	30.22	146.22	28,122,493
2025-07-16	182,966	700,845	26.11	142.96	26,156,819
2025-07-15	195,631	703,821	27.8	144.92	28,350,845
2025-07-14	188,373	826,639	22.79	146.57	27,609,831
2025-07-11	733,054	1,146,733	63.93	149.29	109,437,632
2025-07-10	162,543	789,687	20.58	150.56	24,472,474
2025-07-09	189,004	777,528	24.31	147.91	27,955,582
2025-07-08	409,832	1,162,795	35.25	147.97	60,642,841
2025-07-07	260,768	767,419	33.98	146.25	38,137,320
2025-07-03	479,018	841,326	56.94	148.87	71,311,410
2025-07-02	220,725	738,530	29.89	147.84	32,631,984
2025-07-01	385,588	1,275,713	30.23	146.98	56,673,724
2025-06-30	231,051	1,273,345	18.15	144.02	33,275,965
2025-06-27	299,513	1,087,199	27.55	145.12	43,465,327
2025-06-26	357,457	1,088,176	32.85	144.93	51,806,243
2025-06-25	197,727	521,279	37.93	143.41	28,356,029
2025-06-24	191,487	778,863	24.59	143.28	27,436,257
2025-06-23	263,771	724,582	36.4	142.72	37,645,397
2025-06-20	256,229	872,725	29.36	141.61	36,284,589
2025-06-18	240,077	635,895	37.75	142.13	34,122,144
2025-06-17	234,913	705,659	33.29	141.19	33,167,366
2025-06-16	326,550	836,531	39.04	143.58	46,886,049
2025-06-13	291,467	791,083	36.84	141.58	41,265,898
2025-06-12	268,565	712,312	37.7	144.5	38,807,643
2025-06-11	207,014	504,343	41.05	147.36	30,505,583

Total	271,257,674	709,556,025	38.23	143.83	39,015,865,990

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-06 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.