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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 2026-05-11

#	Symbol	Company	Price	Mkt Cap	Short Float	DTC	Readiness	Setup
1	SPWR	SunPower Inc. Common Stock	$1.1400	113.6M	30.3%	14.6	80	Coiled
2	PGEN	Precigen, Inc. Common Stock	$4.2000	1.42B	29.6%	10.8	75	Coiled
3	MVIS	Microvision Inc	$0.7258	212.9M	21.6%	19.2	75	Igniting
4	RXT	Rackspace Technology, Inc. Common Stock	$4.6900	377.8M	30.6%	3.1	72	Coiled
5	CHRS	Coherus Oncology, Inc. Common Stock	$1.9500	265.3M	26.2%	34.7	71	Igniting
6	FLWS	1-800-FLOWERS.COM Inc	$4.3650	237.7M	30.8%	33.0	71	Igniting
7	CCCC	C4 Therapeutics, Inc.	$3.1700	268.3M	28.0%	5.1	71	Igniting
8	LXRX	Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	$2.3100	703.3M	14.9%	11.6	70	Coiled
9	GDRX	GoodRx Holdings, Inc. Class A Common Stock	$2.8400	794.8M	28.1%	6.5	68	Coiled
10	AISP	Airship AI Holdings, Inc. Class A Common Stock	$2.4400	77.3M	27.3%	9.9	67	Coiled
11	VUZI	Vuzix Corporation	$3.0500	200.4M	24.7%	22.5	67	Igniting
12	DFDV	DeFi Development Corp. Common Stock	$4.9200	127.7M	24.5%	6.1	67	Igniting
13	SANA	Sana Biotechnology, Inc. Common Stock	$3.5600	904.5M	27.1%	10.2	66	Coiled
14	IKT	Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc. Common Stock	$2.0300	248.2M	42.4%	19.3	66	Coiled
15	CABA	Cabaletta Bio, Inc. Common Stock	$3.8200	318.4M	24.6%	10.7	66	Coiled
16	SABR	Sabre Corporation	$1.9100	727.1M	15.7%	13.1	66	Coiled
17	IBO	Impact BioMedical, Inc.	$0.6250	71.2M	91.5%	8.0	65	Coiled
18	PEW	GrabAGun Digital Holdings Inc.	$3.1400	87.3M	11.7%	8.6	65	Igniting
19	XRX	Xerox Holdings Corporation Common Stock	$2.6600	207.9M	28.4%	11.1	64	Coiled
20	INDI	indie Semiconductor, Inc. Class A Common Stock	$4.7400	809.0M	32.4%	23.6	64	Coiled
21	GETY	Getty Images Holdings, Inc.	$0.8096	365.5M	19.6%	16.9	63	Coiled
22	TNYA	Tenaya Therapeutics, Inc. Common Stock	$0.9981	149.9M	16.7%	9.1	63	Coiled
23	AIRJ	AirJoule Technologies Corporation Class A Common Stock	$3.8200	215.0M	10.4%	7.5	63	Coiled
24	NEOV	NeoVolta Inc. Common Stock	$2.9400	120.0M	10.2%	12.2	63	Coiled
25	PRME	Prime Medicine, Inc. Common Stock	$3.2400	666.5M	43.3%	16.3	62	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.