Looking For A Squeeze? Top 10 Most Shorted Stocks Right Now

Benzinga · 2d ago

Traders typically look for heavily shorted stocks for two main reasons: either to bet on a decline in the company's value or to profit from a short squeeze.

Here’s a look at the top 10 most shorted stocks in the market right now. 

What Makes A Stock Heavily Shorted?

The primary reason a stock becomes "heavily shorted" is that a large number of experienced traders and institutional investors—known as short sellers—believe the company is fundamentally overvalued and that its price will fall.

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Short sellers borrow shares, sell them immediately at the current high price, and plan to buy them back later at a much lower price. The difference is their profit. 

Heavily shorted stocks often reflect a strong, well-researched conviction among professional traders or institutions that the company faces serious risks. 

Conversely, traders on the bullish side—often retail traders—view high short interest as a setup for potentially massive, fast gains through a short squeeze.

Learn more about short interest here: Is Your Stock a Squeeze Target? How To Decode Short Interest Data

Top 10 Most Shorted Stocks

Here are the most heavily shorted stocks (with market caps above $2 billion and free floats above 5 million) as of Dec. 10, according to data from Benzinga Pro

In the table below, stocks are ranked by short interest—the total number of shares sold short and not yet covered, expressed as a percentage of shares available for public trading.

Company Name & Ticker              Short Interest (%) [Dec. 10, 2025]
Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:LCID) 52.70%
Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAR) 51.53%
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE:CHH) 49.05%
Revolve Group, Inc. (NYSE:RVLV) 47.04%
TransMedics Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMDX) 38.73%
Hims & Hers Health, Inc. (NYSE:HIMS) 36.58%
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (NYSE:MPW) 36.46%
MARA Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA) 35.99%
Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE:KSS) 35.86%
Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE:NOG) 34.59%
Image of Benzinga Pro scanner short interest % results
Image of Benzinga Pro Scanner feature results from Dec. 10, 2025

Reminders:

  • Highly shorted stocks are battlegrounds where negative fundamentals meet speculative trading.​
  • Short squeezes can deliver huge, fast gains, but at very high risk and volatility.​
  • Monitoring the short interest leaderboard can help identify which stocks might be the next short squeeze, but timing such trades remains extremely challenging.​
  • Always conduct due diligence, as the volatility often reflects deep underlying risks and business uncertainty.

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