Short squeeze is starting in shares of BEN at $24.875, after crossing above the $24.86 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 Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN), 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 Franklin Resources, Inc. at $24.875, after crossing above the $24.86 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
2025-07-02	1,874,303	4,362,212	42.97	24.69	46,276,541
2025-07-01	2,345,545	4,055,452	57.84	24.27	56,926,377
2025-06-30	1,865,307	4,548,898	41.01	23.87	44,524,878
2025-06-27	4,506,331	12,842,699	35.09	23.84	107,430,931
2025-06-26	1,184,778	3,624,061	32.69	23.45	27,783,044
2025-06-25	1,082,348	2,181,738	49.61	23.16	25,067,180
2025-06-24	3,056,570	5,416,753	56.43	23.26	71,095,818
2025-06-23	1,233,160	3,552,132	34.72	22.81	28,128,380
2025-06-20	2,173,985	10,404,916	20.89	22.76	49,479,899
2025-06-18	1,558,303	4,676,221	33.32	22.65	35,295,563
2025-06-17	1,555,638	3,427,032	45.39	22.41	34,861,848
2025-06-16	1,876,341	4,463,200	42.04	22.77	42,724,285
2025-06-13	1,314,597	2,682,147	49.01	22.2	29,184,053
2025-06-12	2,909,996	6,487,356	44.86	22.61	65,795,010
2025-06-11	3,800,843	8,066,524	47.12	22.44	85,290,917
2025-06-10	1,359,076	3,630,584	37.43	21.89	29,750,174
2025-06-09	1,358,535	2,837,104	47.88	21.95	29,819,843
2025-06-06	1,565,474	3,391,294	46.16	21.89	34,268,226
2025-06-05	3,092,736	6,916,560	44.71	21.85	67,576,282
2025-06-04	1,866,281	4,421,554	42.21	21.38	39,901,088
2025-06-03	2,112,517	4,970,942	42.5	21.39	45,186,739
2025-06-02	1,813,186	4,811,471	37.68	21.32	38,657,126
2025-05-30	4,719,286	23,254,750	20.29	21.63	102,078,156
2025-05-29	2,850,187	5,312,762	53.65	21.78	62,077,073
2025-05-28	3,572,947	7,643,621	46.74	21.9	78,247,539
2025-05-27	2,890,999	6,167,655	46.87	22.13	63,977,808
2025-05-23	1,678,514	3,712,475	45.21	21.48	36,054,481
2025-05-22	2,307,462	5,858,903	39.38	21.6	49,841,179
2025-05-21	2,287,646	4,199,769	54.47	21.73	49,710,548
2025-05-20	1,825,050	3,765,206	48.47	22.15	40,424,858
2025-05-19	2,023,394	4,373,431	46.27	22.19	44,899,113
2025-05-16	2,534,631	6,117,323	41.43	22.34	56,623,657
2025-05-15	2,068,541	4,290,207	48.22	22.11	45,735,442
2025-05-14	3,531,745	9,436,007	37.43	21.83	77,097,993
2025-05-13	1,823,237	6,287,965	29	21.71	39,582,475
2025-05-12	2,872,669	6,553,370	43.83	21.77	62,538,004
2025-05-09	2,509,708	5,409,895	46.39	20.96	52,603,480

Total	1,741,027,928	4,964,447,502	35.07	24.86	43,281,563,462

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-07-06 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.