Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc (AHT) short interest & short volume · 5.4% of float short
Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
AHT short interest rose 4.7% to 284K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (5.4% of float, 11.9 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 38.4% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 47.0% the 20 sessions before, the 10th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Oct 2, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 284K
- prior 271K
- % of float
- 5.4%
- float 5.2M
- Days to cover
- 11.9
- avg vol 24K
- Change vs prior report
- +4.7%
| Report date | Shares short | $ value short | Change | % float | Days to cover | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | 284K | $529K | +4.7% | 5.4% | 11.9 | $1.86 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 271K | $643K | -1.9% | 5.2% | 10.2 | $2.37 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 277K | $827K | -2.5% | 5.3% | 28.7 | $2.99 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 284K | $908K | -13.5% | 5.4% | 5.7 | $3.20 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 328K | $1.1M | +11.7% | 6.3% | 8.3 | $3.21 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 294K | $948K | -0.4% | 5.6% | 22.9 | $3.23 |
Days to cover is short interest divided by FINRA's average daily volume for the period: how many average days of trading it would take shorts to buy back.
% of float uses the current float for every report (no float was stored with older reports).
Source: FINRA equity short interest (twice monthly) · Settlement Oct 15, 2026
Daily short volume
Share of each day's volume sold short · FINRA Reg SHO
- Latest (Nov 11)
- 57.0%
- 27K of 48K
- 20-day average
- 38.4%
- prior 47.0%
- Percentile vs own history
- 10th
- 233 periods since 2025
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Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Nov 11, 2026
Short squeeze score (model)
Price since settlement: +31.7%
Model, not a forecast: 40 pts short interest % of float (full at 30%), 25 pts days to cover (full at 10), 15 pts rise in short interest since the prior report (full at +50%), 20 pts price gain since the settlement date (full at +25%). Missing inputs score 0.
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Market-wide: most shorted stocks, biggest changes and unusual short volume · AHT overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-11 | 27,270 | 47,818 | 57.0% |
| 2026-11-10 | 13,762 | 41,105 | 33.5% |
| 2026-11-09 | 10,345 | 29,557 | 35.0% |
| 2026-11-06 | 5,257 | 13,481 | 39.0% |
| 2026-11-05 | 12,637 | 47,428 | 26.6% |
| 2026-11-04 | 3,248 | 7,357 | 44.1% |
| 2026-11-03 | 24,803 | 37,958 | 65.3% |
| 2026-11-02 | 1,257 | 15,446 | 8.1% |
| 2026-10-30 | 8,212 | 51,118 | 16.1% |
| 2026-10-29 | 9,344 | 24,601 | 38.0% |
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AHT short interest FAQ
What is AHT's short interest?
Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc (AHT) had 284K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 5.4% of its 5.2M-share float.
How many days to cover does AHT have?
11.9 days: 284K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 24K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is AHT short interest rising or falling?
AHT short interest rose (+4.7%) from 271K to 284K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is AHT a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores AHT 54 out of 100 (elevated) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 7.2/40, days to cover 25/25, change in short interest vs prior report 1.4/15, price change since settlement date 20/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of AHT daily volume is sold short?
38.4% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 11, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 10th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was AHT's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 11, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc (AHT) was 27,270 shares, 57.0% of 47,818 total volume.
How many AHT short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc (AHT), from Oct 29, 2026 through Nov 11, 2026.
How did AHT short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc (AHT) moved from 33.5% on Nov 10, 2026 to 57.0% on Nov 11, 2026, up 23.5 percentage points.
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