Short squeeze is starting in shares of AOS at $68.02, after crossing above the $67.684 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 A. O. Smith Corporation (AOS), 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 A. O. Smith Corporation at $68.02, after crossing above the $67.684 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
2025-05-01	526,745	1,814,230	29.03	67.54	35,576,357
2025-04-30	432,116	2,631,199	16.42	67.7	29,254,253
2025-04-29	846,466	3,113,883	27.18	67.17	56,857,121
2025-04-28	938,825	1,958,511	47.94	64.79	60,826,472
2025-04-25	603,923	1,856,362	32.53	64.95	39,224,799
2025-04-24	714,011	1,672,294	42.7	65.18	46,539,237
2025-04-23	514,879	1,663,543	30.95	64.13	33,019,190
2025-04-22	843,524	2,121,869	39.75	63.43	53,504,727
2025-04-21	484,586	1,457,839	33.24	61.72	29,908,648
2025-04-17	625,961	1,674,263	37.39	63.21	39,566,995
2025-04-16	624,522	1,680,179	37.17	62.99	39,338,641
2025-04-15	540,990	1,711,526	31.61	64.14	34,699,099
2025-04-14	688,785	1,461,433	47.13	65.11	44,846,791
2025-04-11	848,679	1,794,630	47.29	64.17	54,459,731
2025-04-10	1,073,889	2,248,785	47.75	62.55	67,171,757
2025-04-09	960,986	2,910,528	33.02	61.46	59,062,200
2025-04-08	1,310,457	2,422,483	54.1	60.36	79,099,185
2025-04-07	1,296,100	2,587,570	50.09	60.66	78,621,426
2025-04-04	768,124	1,944,334	39.51	62.32	47,869,488
2025-04-03	762,905	1,940,240	39.32	63.79	48,665,710
2025-04-02	510,724	1,752,331	29.15	65.93	33,672,033
2025-04-01	498,261	2,099,538	23.73	65.44	32,606,200
2025-03-31	505,176	1,980,555	25.51	65.39	33,033,459
2025-03-28	341,349	912,799	37.4	65.8	22,460,764
2025-03-27	317,863	934,326	34.02	66.97	21,287,285
2025-03-26	405,871	1,225,071	33.13	67.39	27,351,647
2025-03-25	420,419	1,320,392	31.84	66.75	28,062,968
2025-03-24	336,919	1,249,072	26.97	66.58	22,432,067
2025-03-21	1,117,050	6,222,969	17.95	66.49	74,272,655
2025-03-20	598,978	1,101,423	54.38	66.77	39,993,761
2025-03-19	641,437	1,445,017	44.39	67.59	43,354,727
2025-03-18	615,149	1,171,965	52.49	67.64	41,608,678
2025-03-17	660,182	1,329,879	49.64	67.34	44,456,656
2025-03-14	582,964	1,385,063	42.09	66.51	38,772,936
2025-03-13	459,182	1,423,011	32.27	65.48	30,067,237
2025-03-12	539,867	1,364,189	39.57	66.02	35,642,019
2025-03-11	784,150	2,220,212	35.32	67.24	52,726,246

Total	443,117,849	1,554,724,641	28.5	67.68	29,991,896,867

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-04 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.

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Short squeeze is starting in shares of AOS at $68.02, after crossing above the $67.684 Trigger Price