Critical Metals Corp.
NASDAQCRML utilization hits 95.64%, near 52-week high of 100%, as available shares to borrow collapse to just 4.57%—making new shorts difficult to establish despite 21% short interest of free float.
Critical Metals Corp. heads into the back half of August with shorts rebuilding aggressively, borrow effectively exhausted, and the one analyst who mattered most to the bull case cutting his target in half — a rare…
Availability for CRML has collapsed to just 3.8%. Only one share remains available to borrow for every 26 already lent out. That is the defining fact about this stock right now. Availability has dropped 75% in one…
Snapshot as of 20 Sept 2026
Critical Metals Corp. enters the week in a state of near-total lending lockdown — availability has collapsed to essentially zero while short interest keeps climbing, creating one of the more charged short-side setups…
Why this matters: Cost to borrow CRML has more than doubled in a single week. The lending market, which briefly reopened ahead of earnings on June 25, has slammed shut again — and the squeeze is now tighter than it was…
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