Short squeeze is starting in shares of PLAB at $19.235, after crossing above the $19.22 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 Photronics, Inc. (PLAB), 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 Photronics, Inc. at $19.235, after crossing above the $19.22 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
2025-06-30	250,113	516,581	48.42	18.84	4,712,129
2025-06-27	284,894	820,414	34.73	18.79	5,353,158
2025-06-26	138,668	370,171	37.46	19.01	2,636,079
2025-06-25	170,761	442,395	38.6	18.94	3,234,213
2025-06-24	157,836	377,662	41.79	18.89	2,981,522
2025-06-23	199,191	465,180	42.82	18.25	3,635,236
2025-06-20	306,000	887,496	34.48	18.26	5,587,560
2025-06-18	217,859	451,952	48.2	18.36	3,999,891
2025-06-17	214,625	417,231	51.44	18.47	3,964,124
2025-06-16	227,617	491,022	46.36	18.7	4,256,438
2025-06-13	334,587	653,318	51.21	18.46	6,176,476
2025-06-12	287,601	588,580	48.86	19	5,464,419
2025-06-11	484,826	1,094,939	44.28	19.14	9,279,570
2025-06-10	221,689	489,145	45.32	18.57	4,116,765
2025-06-09	288,054	624,013	46.16	18.37	5,291,552
2025-06-06	225,038	525,510	42.82	18.05	4,061,936
2025-06-05	357,159	795,850	44.88	17.89	6,389,575
2025-06-04	357,050	859,668	41.53	17.96	6,412,618
2025-06-03	420,010	971,755	43.22	17.73	7,446,777
2025-06-02	552,206	1,249,407	44.2	17.16	9,475,855
2025-05-30	575,038	1,422,246	40.43	16.85	9,689,390
2025-05-29	770,225	1,988,528	38.73	17.37	13,378,808
2025-05-28	1,472,736	3,201,890	46	17.52	25,802,335
2025-05-27	265,827	670,628	39.64	20.05	5,329,831
2025-05-23	155,396	380,581	40.83	19.45	3,022,452
2025-05-22	142,852	445,687	32.05	19.89	2,841,326
2025-05-21	128,577	365,308	35.2	20.09	2,583,112
2025-05-20	146,401	323,138	45.31	20.37	2,982,188
2025-05-19	139,794	372,441	37.53	20.28	2,835,022
2025-05-16	149,274	431,137	34.62	20.52	3,063,102
2025-05-15	140,440	440,006	31.92	20.79	2,919,748
2025-05-14	198,055	427,921	46.28	20.96	4,151,233
2025-05-13	175,602	442,283	39.7	20.92	3,673,594
2025-05-12	240,348	599,182	40.11	20.62	4,955,976
2025-05-09	119,011	366,901	32.44	19.42	2,311,194
2025-05-08	178,691	508,034	35.17	19.53	3,489,835
2025-05-07	184,768	929,933	19.87	18.93	3,497,658

Total	243,178,043	697,521,749	34.86	19.23	4,675,235,707

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-07-02 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.