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Short Squeeze Penny Stocks

Penny stocks (under $5) with elevated short interest and high days-to-cover ratios, ranked by a composite "squeeze readiness" score that blends short-float pressure, technical setup, and momentum signals. These are the names where a short squeeze is mechanically most plausible.

Data as of 2026-05-14

#	Symbol	Company	Price	Mkt Cap	Short Float	DTC	Readiness	Setup
1	PGEN	Precigen, Inc. Common Stock	$4.6000	1.42B	29.5%	14.5	85	Igniting
2	ORGO	Organogenesis Holdings Inc. Class A Common Stock	$2.5900	308.7M	22.0%	14.3	83	Igniting
3	WRAP	Wrap Technologies, Inc. Common Stock	$1.6500	87.1M	22.1%	28.9	78	Igniting
4	IPSC	Century Therapeutics, Inc. Common Stock	$2.3800	396.8M	16.7%	13.8	77	Coiled
5	CRDF	Cardiff Oncology, Inc. Common Stock	$1.7300	114.9M	28.6%	29.0	73	Igniting
6	AISP	Airship AI Holdings, Inc. Class A Common Stock	$2.5200	77.3M	29.1%	9.4	72	Coiled
7	CCCC	C4 Therapeutics, Inc.	$3.6300	268.3M	28.0%	10.9	72	Coiled
8	LXRX	Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	$2.3300	703.3M	15.0%	13.6	70	Coiled
9	RZLV	Rezolve AI PLC Ordinary Shares	$2.6200	1.01B	28.4%	3.6	70	Coiled
10	DDD	3D Systems Corporation	$3.2800	321.3M	29.4%	14.6	70	Coiled
11	GALT	Galectin Therapeutics Inc.	$2.3500	152.7M	16.9%	24.7	70	Coiled
12	LTRN	Lantern Pharma Inc. Common Stock	$3.1300	25.2M	26.3%	7.4	69	Coiled
13	INMB	INmune Bio Inc. Common stock	$1.6800	37.2M	16.0%	17.8	69	Coiled
14	RZLT	Rezolute, Inc. Common Stock (NV)	$3.4000	293.8M	16.8%	9.4	69	Igniting
15	UPXI	Upexi, Inc. Common Stock	$1.5200	90.8M	32.1%	5.9	68	Igniting
16	PLCE	Children's Place, Inc.	$3.3100	71.5M	44.2%	10.3	67	Coiled
17	AQST	Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. Common Stock	$4.7300	508.3M	15.5%	12.6	67	Coiled
18	PEW	GrabAGun Digital Holdings Inc.	$3.0500	87.3M	12.1%	11.0	67	Coiled
19	KULR	KULR Technology Group, Inc.	$3.8100	112.4M	22.2%	7.4	66	Coiled
20	MYO	Myomo Inc.	$0.8880	31.6M	11.5%	13.1	66	Igniting
21	RCKT	Rocket Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Common Stock	$3.4000	374.5M	25.6%	10.7	65	Coiled
22	CABA	Cabaletta Bio, Inc. Common Stock	$3.6100	318.4M	25.9%	10.1	65	Coiled
23	EVTV	Envirotech Vehicles, Inc. Common Stock	$2.2900	22.0M	25.8%	3.9	65	Coiled
24	NUVB	Nuvation Bio Inc.	$4.7200	1.59B	21.4%	13.0	64	Coiled
25	TKNO	Alpha Teknova, Inc. Common Stock	$3.7200	175.3M	14.9%	15.9	63	Coiled

How We Rank Squeeze Candidates

A short squeeze happens when a heavily shorted stock starts rising. Shorts have to buy back shares to cover, pushing the price further up, which forces more covering, and so on. The mechanical inputs are well known. The hard part is filtering noise.

Our readiness score weights five things:

Short float %: the more of the float that's short, the more fuel for a squeeze.
Days to cover (DTC): how many normal trading days shorts would need to exit. Higher = harder to exit cleanly.
Recent technical setup: RSI positioning, TTM Squeeze status, MACD direction, moving-average structure.
Price momentum: recent 5-day move, often the trigger.
Setup category: Coiled (building), Igniting (just moved), Late stage (already extended), Falling Knife (avoid).

The Setup column tells you which phase a name is in. "Coiled" and "Igniting" are where the asymmetry is best; "Late stage" means most of the move may already be gone.