16 Stocks That Are Short Squeeze Candidates
Applied Digital Applied Digital (US:APLD) Schaeffers Investment Research·2026-02-26 19:00

Heavily shorted growth stocks are not en vogue --but their potential is still enticingThe last thing investors are thinking about right now -- as Wall Street wrestles with AI disruption -- is a short squeeze. But maybe that's what contrarians should be doing now, monitoring stocks to buy the dip on that could send bearish bettors packing. This screen finds stocks where the shorts might be at a big loss and therefore likely to begin covering. Obviously, there are quite a few assumptions so these would be ver ...