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Short squeeze is starting in shares of UNF at $187.99, after crossing above the $185.192 Trigger Price


Published on 2025-05-12 10:31:06 - WOPRAI
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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 UniFirst Corporation (UNF), 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 UniFirst Corporation at $187.99, after crossing above the $185.192 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.

DateShort VolumeTotal VolumePercentageSqueeze Trigger$ Value
2025-05-0936,32689,18340.73183.786,675,992
2025-05-0820,45680,65425.36183.843,760,631
2025-05-0728,174137,22920.53180.75,091,042
2025-05-0626,940139,66719.29181.434,887,724
2025-05-0524,27058,58541.43180.684,385,104
2025-05-0221,53577,87627.65179.933,874,793
2025-05-0135,77691,86938.94179.226,411,775
2025-04-3026,74588,40430.25178.114,763,552
2025-04-2923,76463,57537.38179.744,271,341
2025-04-2843,056220,22519.55178.27,672,579
2025-04-2527,69368,13240.65176.94,898,892
2025-04-2445,314158,05328.67175.637,958,498
2025-04-2323,264126,83118.341734,024,672
2025-04-2229,133123,42323.6172.975,039,135
2025-04-2134,50696,78035.65170.545,884,653
2025-04-1725,45089,43928.46172.974,402,087
2025-04-1632,36696,54533.52173.575,617,767
2025-04-1525,21696,56826.11175.234,418,600
2025-04-1427,017136,95719.73174.44,711,765
2025-04-1137,093255,27414.53172.546,400,026
2025-04-1048,794238,70320.44169.768,283,269
2025-04-0938,298250,07815.31170.726,538,235
2025-04-0837,274156,84323.77162.336,050,688
2025-04-0762,835288,89521.75164.1610,314,994
2025-04-0461,542304,59420.2162.8810,023,961
2025-04-0373,319339,80821.58169.0212,392,377
2025-04-02100,598233,32243.12177.6217,868,217
2025-04-0144,408196,26422.63174.527,750,084
2025-03-3144,944174,70925.73174.587,846,324
2025-03-2841,875189,11422.14174.417,303,419
2025-03-2750,540259,89819.45175.898,889,481
2025-03-2682,342492,15216.73170.8514,068,131
2025-03-25131,993537,25724.57170.3522,485,008
2025-03-2426,779215,85612.41197.495,288,585
2025-03-2154,710286,23419.11197.2210,789,906
2025-03-2020,98769,75430.09200.694,211,881
2025-03-1926,97190,36729.85205.145,532,831
 
Total30,973,719110,918,37127.92185.235,737,252,878
 
* Totals include all data records back to 2020-05-13 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.