Dynasil Corporation of America enters the final days of April with remarkably little short-seller interest — and remarkably little news to show for it.
The story this week is one of stillness. The stock gained just over half a percent to close at $1.81, a move that was identical over the day, week, and month — a sign of thin trading rather than any meaningful shift in sentiment. Dynasil is a micro-cap OTC name with a market cap of approximately $14 million. Liquidity is sparse, and it shows in the data.
Borrowing conditions are essentially a non-event. Short interest is a rounding error — fewer than one thousand shares estimated short, with a free float percentage that rounds to zero. Availability is effectively infinite at 9,999%, meaning the lending pool is barely touched. The cost to borrow reads near 5.9%, but the most recent data point for that figure is nearly a year old, so it carries limited weight as a real-time signal. What the lending market tells you here is simply that no one is trying to bet against this stock in any meaningful way.
The ORTEX short score has been stable in a narrow range, hovering around 28.6 over the past two weeks. That is a low reading — below the midpoint of the 0–100 scale — consistent with the absence of short-side conviction. The combined score reads 28.3. Neither figure has moved materially. The score history shows barely a decimal of drift across ten daily readings, which underlines how dormant the positioning has been.
Broader data on this name is largely stale. Insider activity, valuation multiples, and factor scores all carry timestamps from 2019 to 2023, making them unreliable guides to the current setup. What limited insider data exists — a cluster of small executive purchases in mid-2019 at prices around $0.82–$1.21 — is too old to be actionable. No analyst coverage, no options data, and no upcoming earnings event are flagged in the current snapshot.
The practical story for DYSL is that it is a deeply illiquid micro-cap where meaningful data is thin on every dimension. The next development worth watching is any disclosure of new business activity, a revenue update, or a change in the share structure — any of which would be the first genuine signal in what has otherwise been a prolonged period of market silence.
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