Apple Hospitality REIT Inc (APLE) short interest & short volume · 6.8% of float short
Apple Hospitality REIT Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
APLE short interest fell 22.7% to 14.8M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (6.8% of float, 6.2 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 61.4% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 63.7% the 20 sessions before, the 66th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 22, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 14.8M
- prior 19.1M
- % of float
- 6.8%
- float 218.8M
- Days to cover
- 6.2
- avg vol 2.4M
- Change vs prior report
- -22.7%
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)
- 51.3%
- 522K of 1.0M
- 20-day average
- 61.4%
- prior 63.7%
- Percentile vs own history
- 66th
- 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: +10.6%
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 · APLE overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 521,970 | 1,016,618 | 51.3% |
| 2026-10-30 | 621,019 | 1,028,568 | 60.4% |
| 2026-10-29 | 386,742 | 859,738 | 45.0% |
| 2026-10-28 | 600,502 | 893,788 | 67.2% |
| 2026-10-27 | 615,678 | 884,186 | 69.6% |
| 2026-10-26 | 346,312 | 544,018 | 63.7% |
| 2026-10-23 | 295,791 | 467,387 | 63.3% |
| 2026-10-22 | 531,901 | 883,843 | 60.2% |
| 2026-10-21 | 708,303 | 1,236,462 | 57.3% |
| 2026-10-20 | 679,620 | 1,054,847 | 64.4% |
Real Estate peers with similar quant ratings
APLE is rated 4.17 of 5 among 171 rated Real Estate stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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APLE on Lician stock screens
APLE is rated Buy (4.17 of 5) and passes 2 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
APLE short interest FAQ
What is APLE's short interest?
Apple Hospitality REIT Inc (APLE) had 14.8M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 6.8% of its 218.8M-share float.
How many days to cover does APLE have?
6.2 days: 14.8M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 2.4M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is APLE short interest rising or falling?
APLE short interest fell (-22.7%) from 19.1M to 14.8M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is APLE a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores APLE 33 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 9/40, days to cover 15.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 8.5/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of APLE daily volume is sold short?
61.4% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 66th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was APLE's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Apple Hospitality REIT Inc (APLE) was 521,970 shares, 51.3% of 1,016,618 total volume.
How many APLE short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Apple Hospitality REIT Inc (APLE), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did APLE short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Apple Hospitality REIT Inc (APLE) moved from 60.4% on Oct 30, 2026 to 51.3% on Nov 2, 2026, down 9.1 percentage points.
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