Five Below Stock May Face Short Squeeze Following Unusual Trading Activity

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 Five Below, Inc. (FIVE), 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 Five Below, Inc. at $140.27, after crossing above the $136.633 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	736,969	1,407,522	52.36	135.07	99,542,403
2025-07-15	789,396	1,437,345	54.92	132.97	104,965,986
2025-07-14	558,093	1,047,956	53.26	133.16	74,315,664
2025-07-11	401,623	934,189	42.99	129.71	52,094,519
2025-07-10	300,312	935,230	32.11	130.71	39,253,782
2025-07-09	468,769	1,074,507	43.63	129.01	60,475,889
2025-07-08	467,147	1,288,239	36.26	128.53	60,042,404
2025-07-07	530,337	1,326,477	39.98	129.68	68,774,102
2025-07-03	184,669	673,499	27.42	132.33	24,437,249
2025-07-02	471,623	1,562,033	30.19	130.62	61,603,396
2025-07-01	486,116	1,282,802	37.89	133.17	64,736,068
2025-06-30	271,925	743,103	36.59	131.22	35,681,999
2025-06-27	514,919	1,810,399	28.44	130.95	67,428,643
2025-06-26	642,235	1,409,748	45.56	130.78	83,991,493
2025-06-25	528,421	1,117,579	47.28	127.14	67,183,446
2025-06-24	228,813	721,711	31.7	124.66	28,523,829
2025-06-23	361,769	1,351,097	26.78	123.91	44,826,797
2025-06-20	649,972	1,454,738	44.68	123.01	79,953,056
2025-06-18	460,798	1,063,084	43.35	123.85	57,069,832
2025-06-17	536,423	1,151,574	46.58	124.31	66,682,743
2025-06-16	561,912	1,300,060	43.22	125.8	70,688,530
2025-06-13	533,686	1,329,133	40.15	122.44	65,344,514
2025-06-12	385,487	933,894	41.28	125.5	48,378,619
2025-06-11	613,399	1,461,950	41.96	124.73	76,509,257
2025-06-10	453,547	1,614,819	28.09	123.58	56,049,338
2025-06-09	450,002	1,267,073	35.52	126.97	57,136,754
2025-06-06	603,572	1,579,667	38.21	126.72	76,484,644
2025-06-05	2,732,427	6,206,897	44.02	130.01	355,242,834
2025-06-04	1,455,701	3,176,329	45.83	121.4	176,722,101
2025-06-03	903,276	1,988,125	45.43	122.03	110,226,770
2025-06-02	645,734	1,383,062	46.69	116.5	75,228,011
2025-05-30	694,028	1,510,696	45.94	115.85	80,403,144
2025-05-29	785,287	1,661,302	47.27	116.43	91,430,965
2025-05-28	542,788	1,407,081	38.58	114.46	62,127,514
2025-05-27	1,075,361	2,218,013	48.48	114.39	123,010,545
2025-05-23	408,406	1,088,493	37.52	107.21	43,785,207
2025-05-22	662,059	1,463,781	45.23	110.66	73,263,449

Total	523,966,764	1,330,683,129	39.38	136.65	71,598,945,140

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