First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG) Faces Potential Short Squeeze

Published in Stocks and Investing on Wednesday, August 6th 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 First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. (FWRG), 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 First Watch Restaurant Group, Inc. at $18.17, after crossing above the $18.051 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
2025-08-05	1,146,865	2,625,487	43.68	17.65	20,242,167
2025-08-04	880,564	1,462,582	60.21	17.07	15,031,227
2025-08-01	660,481	1,157,705	57.05	16.57	10,944,170
2025-07-31	653,735	1,493,664	43.77	17.27	11,290,003
2025-07-30	457,912	829,357	55.21	17.51	8,018,039
2025-07-29	279,717	494,919	56.52	16.89	4,724,420
2025-07-28	270,943	544,760	49.74	17.19	4,657,510
2025-07-25	221,858	470,971	47.11	17.19	3,813,739
2025-07-24	379,121	671,912	56.42	17.28	6,551,211
2025-07-23	504,552	1,188,563	42.45	18.43	9,298,893
2025-07-22	313,270	663,595	47.21	17.5	5,482,225
2025-07-21	326,766	561,663	58.18	17.09	5,584,431
2025-07-18	248,829	386,009	64.46	16.82	4,185,304
2025-07-17	428,366	783,689	54.66	17.18	7,359,328
2025-07-16	290,480	437,289	66.43	16.87	4,900,398
2025-07-15	298,479	600,061	49.74	16.66	4,972,660
2025-07-14	328,561	532,962	61.65	17.15	5,634,821
2025-07-11	225,487	392,133	57.5	17.51	3,948,277
2025-07-10	253,594	526,273	48.19	18.01	4,567,228
2025-07-09	327,544	535,254	61.19	17.9	5,863,038
2025-07-08	491,416	821,180	59.84	17.9	8,796,346
2025-07-07	366,012	624,716	58.59	17.43	6,379,589
2025-07-03	192,926	370,120	52.13	17.55	3,385,851
2025-07-02	775,938	1,408,720	55.08	17.42	13,516,840
2025-07-01	538,505	1,173,946	45.87	17.09	9,203,050
2025-06-30	699,739	1,161,249	60.26	16.29	11,398,748
2025-06-27	871,371	1,465,592	59.46	16.07	14,002,932
2025-06-26	932,292	1,662,969	56.06	16.2	15,103,130
2025-06-25	436,778	825,005	52.94	15.12	6,604,083
2025-06-24	277,469	596,754	46.5	15.74	4,367,362
2025-06-23	377,971	817,185	46.25	15.58	5,888,788
2025-06-20	553,207	1,209,552	45.74	15.69	8,679,818
2025-06-18	312,428	571,319	54.69	15.25	4,764,527
2025-06-17	199,857	422,998	47.25	15.29	3,055,814
2025-06-16	366,892	866,379	42.35	15.61	5,727,184
2025-06-13	343,548	586,147	58.61	15.22	5,228,801
2025-06-12	196,759	357,951	54.97	15.84	3,116,663

Total	182,404,880	410,906,949	44.39	18.05	3,292,081,609

* Totals include all data records back to 2021-10-05 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG) Faces Potential Short Squeeze