The fact is, it is impossible for the number of shares reported by shareholders in their brokerage accounts to exceed the CEDE & Co.
If it wasn't possible to exceed the float or short beyond the borrowing cap, we would not have stocks on SHO for 84+ days. Clearly, these are stocks that have shares floating in the public float which have artificially inflated the shares held by retail...they are holding a "borrowed" sale that does not have a real share to back it...it has "failed to deliver".
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