Short squeeze is starting in shares of PLAB at $19.13, after crossing above the $19.056 Trigger Price

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 Photronics, Inc. (PLAB), 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 Photronics, Inc. at $19.13, after crossing above the $19.056 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
2025-05-07	163,722	929,933	17.61	18.93	3,099,257
2025-05-06	99,763	471,641	21.15	18.8	1,875,544
2025-05-02	128,268	504,705	25.41	19.19	2,461,463
2025-05-01	166,518	670,618	24.83	18.47	3,075,587
2025-04-30	183,710	715,768	25.67	18.23	3,349,033
2025-04-29	103,779	358,839	28.92	18.47	1,916,798
2025-04-28	142,000	467,563	30.37	18.56	2,635,520
2025-04-25	118,816	331,796	35.81	18.67	2,218,295
2025-04-24	176,597	549,896	32.11	18.63	3,290,002
2025-04-23	256,522	693,071	37.01	18.07	4,635,353
2025-04-22	346,667	968,104	35.81	17.7	6,136,006
2025-04-21	381,215	808,502	47.15	17.57	6,697,948
2025-04-17	262,266	690,567	37.98	17.74	4,652,599
2025-04-16	239,636	715,088	33.51	17.65	4,229,575
2025-04-15	196,818	723,023	27.22	18	3,542,724
2025-04-14	151,741	494,028	30.72	18.01	2,732,855
2025-04-11	134,284	549,463	24.44	17.88	2,400,998
2025-04-10	284,613	1,195,842	23.8	17.76	5,054,727
2025-04-09	424,981	1,407,178	30.2	18.81	7,993,893
2025-04-08	372,980	995,698	37.46	17.25	6,433,905
2025-04-07	416,994	1,083,881	38.47	17.3	7,213,996
2025-04-04	313,937	924,941	33.94	17.39	5,459,364
2025-04-03	283,161	724,313	39.09	18.5	5,238,479
2025-04-02	243,299	474,473	51.28	20.42	4,968,166
2025-04-01	225,661	525,580	42.94	20.27	4,574,148
2025-03-31	365,867	792,253	46.18	20.6	7,536,860
2025-03-28	291,754	652,110	44.74	20.65	6,024,720
2025-03-27	321,286	597,755	53.75	21.38	6,869,095
2025-03-26	272,873	565,083	48.29	21.54	5,877,684
2025-03-25	145,799	371,305	39.27	21.59	3,147,800
2025-03-24	204,275	592,339	34.49	21.62	4,416,426
2025-03-21	468,597	2,264,721	20.69	21.03	9,854,595
2025-03-20	176,616	620,416	28.47	21.4	3,779,582
2025-03-19	120,296	409,340	29.39	21.53	2,589,973
2025-03-18	189,622	553,504	34.26	21.49	4,074,977
2025-03-17	209,681	571,148	36.71	21.51	4,510,238
2025-03-14	265,964	603,541	44.07	21.3	5,665,033

Total	238,600,748	689,369,883	34.61	19.06	4,547,495,903

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-11 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of PLAB at $19.13, after crossing above the $19.056 Trigger Price