Viking Therapeutics (VKTX) Faces Potential Short Squeeze

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 Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (VKTX), 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 Viking Therapeutics, Inc. at $31.51, after crossing above the $31.42 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
2025-07-09	2,577,563	5,584,017	46.16	30.44	78,461,018
2025-07-08	2,429,732	5,940,880	40.9	29.86	72,551,798
2025-07-07	1,129,351	2,880,432	39.21	27.57	31,136,207
2025-07-03	929,580	2,373,611	39.16	28.01	26,037,536
2025-07-02	1,126,913	4,089,557	27.56	27.94	31,485,949
2025-07-01	1,272,565	3,683,578	34.55	26.69	33,964,760
2025-06-30	1,854,562	4,385,508	42.29	27.05	50,165,902
2025-06-27	2,082,474	5,691,643	36.59	26.79	55,789,478
2025-06-26	2,600,934	5,358,364	48.54	28.24	73,450,376
2025-06-25	1,747,352	4,161,791	41.99	26.62	46,514,510
2025-06-24	1,440,598	4,406,293	32.69	26.22	37,772,480
2025-06-23	2,399,680	6,818,744	35.19	24.66	59,176,109
2025-06-20	1,155,569	2,933,497	39.39	26.03	30,079,461
2025-06-18	993,373	2,266,038	43.84	26.32	26,145,577
2025-06-17	1,104,398	2,250,772	49.07	26.4	29,156,107
2025-06-16	956,923	2,979,288	32.12	26.61	25,463,721
2025-06-13	2,006,072	6,061,054	33.1	26.54	53,241,151
2025-06-12	1,127,807	2,449,394	46.04	28.55	32,198,890
2025-06-11	1,742,794	3,785,616	46.04	29.4	51,238,144
2025-06-10	2,217,562	5,142,312	43.12	29.15	64,641,932
2025-06-09	1,288,132	3,621,591	35.57	27.46	35,372,105
2025-06-06	948,623	2,356,701	40.25	27.74	26,314,802
2025-06-05	1,008,385	2,781,529	36.25	27.03	27,256,647
2025-06-04	609,827	1,746,500	34.92	27.1	16,526,312
2025-06-03	932,658	2,503,778	37.25	26.5	24,715,437
2025-06-02	1,254,543	3,198,567	39.22	26.27	32,956,845
2025-05-30	1,075,949	2,841,945	37.86	26.93	28,975,307
2025-05-29	893,869	2,507,801	35.64	27.94	24,974,700
2025-05-28	948,398	2,506,770	37.83	27.49	26,071,461
2025-05-27	947,630	2,792,121	33.94	27.17	25,747,107
2025-05-23	767,360	1,799,690	42.64	27.12	20,810,803
2025-05-22	676,269	1,904,635	35.51	27.43	18,550,059
2025-05-21	1,007,533	2,516,461	40.04	27.52	27,727,308
2025-05-20	908,439	2,371,860	38.3	28.45	25,845,090
2025-05-19	861,059	2,421,827	35.55	27.38	23,575,795
2025-05-16	1,241,770	3,207,249	38.72	28.39	35,253,850
2025-05-15	653,982	2,270,222	28.81	26.95	17,624,815

Total	1,338,506,031	3,084,563,288	43.39	31.42	42,053,081,008

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-07-14 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.