A.O. Smith Corporation Faces Potential Short Squeeze

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 $69.58, after crossing above the $68.632 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
2025-07-16	655,901	1,553,883	42.21	67.79	44,463,529
2025-07-15	298,114	1,508,834	19.76	67.55	20,137,601
2025-07-14	294,279	1,027,358	28.64	68.84	20,258,166
2025-07-11	378,912	1,301,588	29.11	69.25	26,239,656
2025-07-10	522,652	1,588,135	32.91	70.89	37,050,800
2025-07-09	373,580	1,533,677	24.36	69.14	25,829,321
2025-07-08	345,736	1,476,142	23.42	68.44	23,662,172
2025-07-07	693,462	2,228,197	31.12	68.07	47,203,958
2025-07-03	198,836	658,936	30.18	67.91	13,502,953
2025-07-02	379,466	1,284,360	29.55	67.92	25,773,331
2025-07-01	542,444	1,437,992	37.72	67.71	36,728,883
2025-06-30	493,363	1,678,412	29.39	65.57	32,349,812
2025-06-27	578,455	2,611,481	22.15	65.52	37,900,372
2025-06-26	219,339	1,319,167	16.63	64.64	14,178,073
2025-06-25	372,554	1,290,176	28.88	64.99	24,212,284
2025-06-24	197,754	878,375	22.51	64.85	12,824,347
2025-06-23	281,782	1,620,856	17.38	63.62	17,926,971
2025-06-20	925,006	3,785,958	24.43	62.73	58,025,626
2025-06-18	227,882	1,444,397	15.78	63.24	14,411,258
2025-06-17	423,849	1,695,722	25	63.42	26,880,504
2025-06-16	272,054	1,906,993	14.27	64.19	17,463,146
2025-06-13	419,575	2,527,551	16.6	63.89	26,806,647
2025-06-12	260,870	2,364,039	11.03	64.21	16,750,463
2025-06-11	346,924	1,358,353	25.54	65.58	22,751,276
2025-06-10	293,123	1,525,663	19.21	65.71	19,261,112
2025-06-09	360,373	1,307,376	27.56	64.84	23,366,585
2025-06-06	193,277	1,492,289	12.95	64.31	12,429,644
2025-06-05	404,983	2,584,901	15.67	63.75	25,817,666
2025-06-04	448,642	1,609,509	27.87	64.45	28,914,977
2025-06-03	540,511	2,312,648	23.37	63.91	34,544,058
2025-06-02	603,378	2,906,074	20.76	63.03	38,030,915
2025-05-30	1,954,779	10,232,398	19.1	64.32	125,731,385
2025-05-29	905,479	2,469,094	36.67	64.64	58,530,163
2025-05-28	2,049,087	3,908,385	52.43	64.77	132,719,365
2025-05-27	906,377	2,211,302	40.99	68.29	61,896,485
2025-05-23	576,437	1,658,992	34.75	66.94	38,586,693
2025-05-22	522,621	1,709,633	30.57	67.15	35,094,000

Total	451,997,109	1,572,884,100	28.74	68.64	31,023,052,058

* Totals include all data records back to 2020-07-20 00:00:00, data set is truncated for viewing.