They can and do force stock prices down all the time. The Reddit movement has been a retail push back against this practice. Yes revenue would break sorts but just because we don't have revenue doesn't mean that shorts aren't deflating the actual current and short term predictive value of the company. Many stocks go up on good news that is not revenue based. We don't and the reason for this is that NP had made us an easy target for shorts. If you talk too much about hitting grand slams but only actually manage to hit hard earned singles, your singles eventually start to look like strikeouts.