Ally Financial Inc (ALLY) short interest & short volume · 4.5% of float short
Ally Financial Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
ALLY short interest fell 20.0% to 12.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (4.5% of float, 2.9 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 53.9% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 59.9% the 20 sessions before, the 49th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 22, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 12.4M
- prior 15.6M
- % of float
- 4.5%
- float 276.7M
- Days to cover
- 2.9
- avg vol 4.2M
- Change vs prior report
- -20.0%
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 2)
- 47.6%
- 470K of 988K
- 20-day average
- 53.9%
- prior 59.9%
- Percentile vs own history
- 49th
- 233 periods since 2025
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Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Nov 2, 2026
Short squeeze score (model)
Price since settlement: +0.5%
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 · ALLY overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 470,319 | 987,766 | 47.6% |
| 2026-10-30 | 746,291 | 2,342,750 | 31.9% |
| 2026-10-29 | 674,767 | 1,009,151 | 66.9% |
| 2026-10-28 | 633,384 | 1,186,340 | 53.4% |
| 2026-10-27 | 598,336 | 945,976 | 63.3% |
| 2026-10-26 | 845,725 | 1,181,986 | 71.5% |
| 2026-10-23 | 666,695 | 1,092,433 | 61.0% |
| 2026-10-22 | 604,974 | 1,117,904 | 54.1% |
| 2026-10-21 | 1,013,450 | 1,662,692 | 61.0% |
| 2026-10-20 | 2,017,962 | 2,968,097 | 68.0% |
Financials peers with similar quant ratings
ALLY is rated 2.35 of 5 among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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ALLY short interest FAQ
What is ALLY's short interest?
Ally Financial Inc (ALLY) had 12.4M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 4.5% of its 276.7M-share float.
How many days to cover does ALLY have?
2.9 days: 12.4M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 4.2M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is ALLY short interest rising or falling?
ALLY short interest fell (-20.0%) from 15.6M to 12.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is ALLY a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores ALLY 14 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 6/40, days to cover 7.4/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 0.4/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of ALLY daily volume is sold short?
53.9% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 49th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was ALLY's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Ally Financial Inc (ALLY) was 470,319 shares, 47.6% of 987,766 total volume.
How many ALLY short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Ally Financial Inc (ALLY), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did ALLY short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Ally Financial Inc (ALLY) moved from 31.9% on Oct 30, 2026 to 47.6% on Nov 2, 2026, up 15.7 percentage points.
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