Provident Financial Services (PFS) 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 Provident Financial Services, Inc. (PFS), 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 Provident Financial Services, Inc. at $18.15, after crossing above the $18.115 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
2025-08-06	298,716	544,661	54.84	18.1	5,406,760
2025-08-05	365,914	1,190,346	30.74	18.18	6,652,317
2025-08-04	276,261	697,986	39.58	18.14	5,011,375
2025-08-01	441,180	1,132,979	38.94	17.96	7,923,593
2025-07-31	420,384	1,127,983	37.27	18.23	7,663,600
2025-07-30	284,640	523,237	54.4	18.54	5,277,226
2025-07-29	272,746	724,301	37.66	19.04	5,193,084
2025-07-28	479,886	722,522	66.42	19.26	9,242,604
2025-07-25	444,293	1,156,376	38.42	18.94	8,414,909
2025-07-24	414,153	766,499	54.03	18.3	7,579,000
2025-07-23	239,043	771,803	30.97	18.26	4,364,925
2025-07-22	299,023	1,024,082	29.2	18.4	5,502,023
2025-07-21	336,509	835,290	40.29	18.5	6,225,417
2025-07-18	426,658	717,004	59.51	18.61	7,940,105
2025-07-17	462,701	1,303,558	35.5	18.61	8,610,866
2025-07-16	443,711	682,215	65.04	18.27	8,106,600
2025-07-15	334,100	972,142	34.37	18.31	6,117,371
2025-07-14	277,827	828,356	33.54	18.74	5,206,478
2025-07-11	398,327	1,475,644	26.99	18.57	7,396,932
2025-07-10	255,503	483,630	52.83	18.81	4,806,011
2025-07-09	238,437	490,335	48.63	18.73	4,465,925
2025-07-08	264,006	456,734	57.8	18.79	4,960,673
2025-07-07	353,036	842,058	41.93	18.62	6,573,530
2025-07-03	194,589	358,166	54.33	18.84	3,666,057
2025-07-02	280,920	918,237	30.59	18.46	5,185,783
2025-07-01	276,258	728,164	37.94	18.02	4,978,169
2025-06-30	361,167	1,168,048	30.92	17.61	6,360,151
2025-06-27	619,671	2,843,265	21.79	17.73	10,986,767
2025-06-26	511,470	859,792	59.49	17.74	9,073,478
2025-06-25	670,281	1,120,790	59.8	16.94	11,354,560
2025-06-24	518,908	942,887	55.03	17.07	8,857,760
2025-06-23	235,281	831,745	28.29	16.59	3,903,312
2025-06-20	482,780	1,887,616	25.58	16.21	7,825,864
2025-06-18	311,063	682,227	45.6	16.15	5,023,667
2025-06-17	166,791	687,230	24.27	16.03	2,673,660
2025-06-16	173,350	725,144	23.91	16.3	2,825,605
2025-06-13	200,230	532,999	37.57	16.51	3,305,797

Total	243,234,500	772,515,902	31.49	18.12	4,406,622,658

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-08-10 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.