Squeeze Ideas: 11 Low-Debt Dividend Stocks with Increasing Short Interest

When a stock becomes highly shorted, it may indicate a short squeeze opportunity. As there are fewer short sellers to sell the stock, any move up can trigger a short squeeze in which short sellers must close out their positions, which puts even more upward pressure on the stock price. From the perspective of an investor searching for dividend income, we wanted to search for potential short squeeze opportunities from dividend stocks.Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the top six stocks mentioned below. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research.<p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p> We began by looking for dividend stocks (with dividend yields above 2% and sustainable payout ratios below 35%) that have low company debt (with most recent quarter total debt-to-assets below 0.2). From these stocks, we searched for those with significant increases in shares... Read more