Federal Screw Works is a micro-cap automotive parts name trading on the OTC Pink market at $8.16 — down about 1.3% on the week and nearly 12% over the past month.
The honest starting point for this note is a data quality caveat. Almost every ORTEX data stream for FSCR is stale by months or years. Short interest estimates date to December 2025. Cost-to-borrow data is from October 2025. Valuation multiples reference 2021. Factor scores are from 2016. Insider trade records stop in 2004. None of that is usable as a current read on positioning or sentiment.
What the data does show is a stock with almost no short activity. The most recent FINRA fortnightly report, dated April 15, recorded just 29 shares short — a days-to-cover of one. Availability in the lending market is currently at zero percent utilised, unchanged for at least 30 consecutive trading days. The 52-week peak for utilisation was 24.76%, suggesting even the modest borrowing demand that existed last year has fully unwound. There is no squeeze pressure here, and no meaningful short thesis either.
The price action is the clearest signal available. FSCR has lost roughly $1.10 per share over the past month on what appears to be very thin volume — typical for a thinly-traded OTC name with no analyst coverage, no upcoming earnings event on record, and no recent insider activity to frame the move. The stock's ORTEX short score was last logged at 34.5 in December 2025, a mid-range reading that does not flag any particular stress.
For most weeks, the story on a name like this is simply the absence of a story. What to watch is whether any volume or price catalyst emerges that might revive short interest data flows — until then, the reliable data here is thin, and the price chart is the primary record.
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