US short-selling history
The episodes people search for by name, told from the FINRA's own published figures rather than from memory: what the short position was, when it peaked, and what the public record says happened around it. Every number is computed from the same data as the company pages. Nothing here is investment advice, and none of it predicts anything.
- GameStop: the most shorted stock in America, 2019 to 2021
FINRA's twice-monthly counts through GameStop's run as the most heavily shorted large US stock, the January 2021 squeeze, and the unwind that followed.
Peak 98.85% on 15 Jan 2020 · 15 Jan 2019 to 31 Dec 2021
- Bed Bath & Beyond: shorted into bankruptcy, 2022 to 2023
The regulator's figures through the retailer's last two years: the 2022 rally and reversal, a short position that kept growing as the shares fell, and the archive after delisting.
Peak 88.45% on 14 Apr 2023 · 14 Jan 2022 to 28 Apr 2023
- Beyond Meat: the short position that outlasted the hype, 2019 to 2025
From a heavily shorted 2019 IPO to one of the most shorted US stocks for six consecutive years, in FINRA's own twice-monthly figures.
Peak 84.84% on 31 Oct 2025 · 15 Oct 2019 to 31 Dec 2025
- AMC Entertainment: the meme-stock years in the short data, 2021 to 2024
How AMC's short interest read through the June 2021 rally, the preferred-equity units of 2022, the 2023 reverse split and the 2024 share sales, in FINRA's figures.
Peak 27.95% on 30 Apr 2024 · 14 May 2021 to 31 Dec 2024
- Tesla: the great short unwind, 2018 to 2020
The most valuable short position in the world, in FINRA's twice-monthly counts: a quarter of Tesla sold short at the 2019 low, and the two-year unwind into the S&P 500 inclusion.
Peak 25.11% on 31 May 2019 · 12 Jan 2018 to 31 Dec 2020
- Carvana: from near-collapse to the 2023 rally, in the short data
Short interest in the online car retailer through the 2022 fall, the bankruptcy fears of that winter and the debt restructuring and rally of 2023, from FINRA's figures.
Peak 29.44% on 13 Jan 2023 · 14 Jan 2022 to 29 Dec 2023
- Nikola: from the 2020 short report to the Chapter 11 filing
FINRA's twice-monthly counts across four and a half years, from the short-seller report of September 2020 to the company's bankruptcy filing in February 2025.
Peak 42.04% on 14 Feb 2025 · 31 Jul 2020 to 14 Feb 2025
- Silvergate: a bank wound down, in the short data
FINRA's counts through the crypto-focused bank's final fifteen months, from the November 2022 failure of FTX to the March 2023 decision to wind the bank down.
Peak 66.82% on 28 Feb 2023 · 14 Jan 2022 to 28 Apr 2023
- Novavax: four years of a very large short position, 2021 to 2024
FINRA's twice-monthly counts through the vaccine maker's authorisations, its 2023 going-concern disclosure and the licensing agreement announced in 2024.
Peak 47.13% on 15 Sep 2023 · 15 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2024
- Peloton: the short position from the pandemic boom to the 2024 peak
FINRA's twice-monthly counts through the treadmill recall, two chief executive departures and successive job cuts, ending at the highest short interest in the company's record.
Peak 19.72% on 15 Jul 2024 · 15 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2024
- Plug Power: the short position through a restatement, a going-concern warning and a federal loan
FINRA's twice-monthly counts for the hydrogen company from the March 2021 restatement to the 2025 peak, through the November 2023 going-concern warning and the Department of Energy loan guarantee.
Peak 33.23% on 30 Sep 2025 · 15 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2025
- Lucid: the short position from the SPAC listing to the 2026 high
FINRA's twice-monthly counts for the electric-vehicle maker from its first settlement after the Churchill Capital merger, through two production-target cuts in 2022, to the highest reading in its record.
Peak 19.20% on 31 Aug 2026 · 15 Oct 2021 to 31 Aug 2026
- Rivian: the short position from the IPO to the Volkswagen joint venture
FINRA's twice-monthly counts for the electric-truck maker from its first settlements after the November 2021 listing to the late-2024 peak that followed the Volkswagen joint venture.
Peak 14.81% on 29 Nov 2024 · 14 Jan 2022 to 31 Dec 2025
- Upstart: the most shorted lender of 2023
FINRA's twice-monthly counts for the AI lending platform from its 2021 listing through the 2022 guidance cuts to a peak near 40% of shares outstanding in early 2023.
Peak 39.29% on 15 Feb 2023 · 14 May 2021 to 31 Dec 2024
- Virgin Galactic: the short position from Branson's flight to the 2026 high
FINRA's twice-monthly counts for the spaceflight company from the July 2021 Unity 22 flight, through the first commercial flight and the 2024 reverse split, to the highest reading in its record.
Peak 41.82% on 30 Jun 2026 · 15 Jan 2021 to 31 Aug 2026