Short squeeze is starting in shares of PEBK at $26.45, after crossing above the $26.074 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 Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina, Inc. (PEBK), 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 Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina, Inc. at $26.45, after crossing above the $26.074 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
2025-04-16	2,468	6,318	39.06	26.07	64,341
2025-04-15	1,787	4,681	38.18	26.32	47,034
2025-04-14	8,300	18,776	44.21	26.22	217,626
2025-04-11	7,428	26,775	27.74	26.1	193,871
2025-04-10	4,920	8,302	59.26	26.2	128,904
2025-04-09	2,589	7,150	36.21	27.17	70,343
2025-04-08	1,464	8,581	17.06	25.91	37,932
2025-04-07	2,927	7,228	40.5	26.08	76,336
2025-04-04	4,076	9,842	41.41	24.68	100,596
2025-04-03	1,773	5,447	32.55	24.95	44,236
2025-04-02	2,907	6,835	42.53	27.27	79,274
2025-04-01	1,380	3,480	39.66	26.92	37,150
2025-03-31	3,434	13,053	26.31	27.33	93,851
2025-03-28	832	4,993	16.66	27.68	23,030
2025-03-27	1,790	5,518	32.44	28.49	50,997
2025-03-26	2,872	6,091	47.15	28.07	80,617
2025-03-25	1,288	4,156	30.99	27.42	35,317
2025-03-24	896	2,762	32.44	28.32	25,375
2025-03-21	4,228	20,208	20.92	27.4	115,847
2025-03-20	1,204	2,279	52.83	27.68	33,327
2025-03-19	3,178	7,056	45.04	27.51	87,427
2025-03-18	1,760	4,101	42.92	27.25	47,960
2025-03-17	750	3,484	21.53	27.09	20,318
2025-03-14	2,758	5,976	46.15	27.22	75,073
2025-03-13	2,082	4,945	42.1	26.71	55,610
2025-03-12	1,000	4,431	22.57	26.77	26,770
2025-03-11	2,665	5,700	46.75	26.52	70,676
2025-03-10	4,255	6,248	68.1	26.52	112,843
2025-03-07	3,045	6,496	46.88	26.68	81,241
2025-03-06	3,096	6,538	47.35	26.57	82,261
2025-03-05	1,556	6,081	25.59	26.39	41,063
2025-03-04	2,638	7,444	35.44	26.23	69,195
2025-03-03	2,511	7,497	33.49	26.48	66,491
2025-02-28	2,305	11,076	20.81	26.48	61,036
2025-02-27	2,267	5,999	37.79	26.84	60,846
2025-02-26	2,206	6,568	33.59	26.64	58,768
2025-02-25	2,307	8,080	28.55	26.88	62,012

Total	3,643,066	12,499,027	29.15	26.08	95,012,257

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-04-20 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of PEBK at $26.45, after crossing above the $26.074 Trigger Price