BLNK - VMware Nikola and Cricut top the list of top short squeeze candidates

S3 Partners is out with its list of the ten most crowded U.S. stocks with over $100M worth of short interest outstanding on them. The firm says a short can be considered to be "crowded" if there are large amount of dollars at risk on the short side, a large proportion of a stock’s float is being shorted, there is illiquidity in the stock loan market and\or there is illiquidity in the trading market. Based off its proprietary scoring system the ten most crowded short stocks in order are Altimeter Growth (NASDAQ:AGC), Blink Charging (NASDAQ:BLNK), B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS), VMware (NYSE:VMW), Nikola (NASDAQ:NKLA), Wayfair (NYSE:W), Lemonade (NYSE:LMND), Workhorse Group (NASDAQ:WKHS), Cricut (NASDAQ:CRCT), Arcimoto (NASDAQ:FUV) and Weber (NYSE:WEBR). Of that group, S3 Partners' Ihor Dusaniwsky says VMware (VMW), Nikola (NKLA) and Cricut (CRCT) have the highest probability of seeing a short squeeze based on the firm's algorithm. Chart watch on VMW, NKLA and CRCT.

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VMware, Nikola and Cricut top the list of top short squeeze candidates