Screen Companies by Positioning

curl "https://api.focusalpha.ai/v1/screen?market_cap_usd_gte=2000000000&market_cap_usd_lte=10000000000&sort=short_percent_float&order=desc&limit=25" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOCUSALPHA_API_KEY"

{
  "data": [
    {
      "company_id": "cmp_009325",
      "company_name": "Vistance Networks, Inc.",
      "primary_ticker": "VISN",
      "market_cap_usd": 1423344372,
      "short_percent_float": "10.83",
      "short_percent_outstanding": "10.32",
      "days_to_cover": "2.29",
      "short_interest_change_pct": "27.79",
      "short_interest_as_of": "2026-08-14",
      "ceo_name": "Charles L. Treadway",
      "ceo_total_comp": "15417850",
      "ceo_comp_fiscal_year": 2025,
      "insider_ownership_pct": "3.5"
    }
  ]
}

Screening companies by positioning filters on who is long, short, buying and selling: exchange-reported short interest, open-market insider activity from SEC Form 4, the directors-and-officers stake and CEO pay from the proxy statement, and the Taiwan-specific foreign-ownership and revenue axes. Each measure carries its own coverage boundary, stated below, because filtering on any of them silently drops every company the measure does not reach.

Plan: Fund · Credits: 1 per call; screen facets are free

The Short-Interest Filters

number

Short interest as a percent of float; _lte sets the ceiling. US-only, settled twice a month — see Short Interest.

number

Short interest over average daily volume.

The Insider Filters

string

buying or selling: net open-market Form 4 activity over 90 days, US filers. Counts purchase and sale codes only — grants, option exercises and tax withholding are compensation mechanics, not decisions, and are deliberately excluded. See Insider Trades.

number

The directors-and-officers group stake from the latest proxy, 0–100; _lte sets the ceiling. Null for dual-class filers whose proxy states it per share class — those never match. See Proxy Ownership.

number

Latest-proxy CEO total compensation floor in USD; _lte sets the ceiling. Annual, US proxy filers. See Executive Compensation.

The Taiwan Filters

number

Foreign ownership percent of a Taiwan listing, 0–100; _lte sets the ceiling. See Taiwan Foreign Ownership.

number

Latest monthly revenue YoY percent — Taiwan’s monthly revenue disclosure, an axis that exists in no other market. _lte sets the ceiling.

Every Positioning Filter Is Also a Coverage Filter

Short interest is US-only and twice-monthly. Insider activity is US Form 4. Proxy measures cover US proxy filers, annually. The tw_* columns are Taiwan listings. Filtering on any of these silently drops every company the dimension does not reach; the response’s coverage block states each boundary, and the free facets endpoint counts each population. By fundamentals · Short interest · Insider trades · Executive compensation · Company screening overview

curl "https://api.focusalpha.ai/v1/screen?market_cap_usd_gte=2000000000&market_cap_usd_lte=10000000000&sort=short_percent_float&order=desc&limit=25" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOCUSALPHA_API_KEY"

{
  "data": [
    {
      "company_id": "cmp_009325",
      "company_name": "Vistance Networks, Inc.",
      "primary_ticker": "VISN",
      "market_cap_usd": 1423344372,
      "short_percent_float": "10.83",
      "short_percent_outstanding": "10.32",
      "days_to_cover": "2.29",
      "short_interest_change_pct": "27.79",
      "short_interest_as_of": "2026-08-14",
      "ceo_name": "Charles L. Treadway",
      "ceo_total_comp": "15417850",
      "ceo_comp_fiscal_year": 2025,
      "insider_ownership_pct": "3.5"
    }
  ]
}

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Screen Companies by Positioning

The Short-Interest Filters

The Insider Filters

The Taiwan Filters

Every Positioning Filter Is Also a Coverage Filter

​The Short-Interest Filters

​The Insider Filters

​The Taiwan Filters

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