Applovin Corp (APP) short interest & short volume · 4.8% of float short
Applovin Corp official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
APP short interest fell 3.9% to 11.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (4.8% of float, 2.2 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 41.3% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 52.6% the 20 sessions before, the 13th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 22, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 11.2M
- prior 11.6M
- % of float
- 4.8%
- float 231.7M
- Days to cover
- 2.2
- avg vol 5.1M
- Change vs prior report
- -3.9%
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)
- 41.7%
- 862K of 2.1M
- 20-day average
- 41.3%
- prior 52.6%
- Percentile vs own history
- 13th
- 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: -12.1%
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 · APP overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 862,233 | 2,067,018 | 41.7% |
| 2026-10-30 | 1,441,270 | 4,536,559 | 31.8% |
| 2026-10-29 | 512,550 | 1,587,478 | 32.3% |
| 2026-10-28 | 415,178 | 914,377 | 45.4% |
| 2026-10-27 | 410,171 | 963,123 | 42.6% |
| 2026-10-26 | 392,607 | 978,008 | 40.1% |
| 2026-10-23 | 550,212 | 1,003,416 | 54.8% |
| 2026-10-22 | 386,460 | 1,056,314 | 36.6% |
| 2026-10-21 | 568,004 | 1,290,472 | 44.0% |
| 2026-10-20 | 565,707 | 1,027,813 | 55.0% |
Communication Services peers with similar quant ratings
APP is rated 3.92 of 5 among 108 rated Communication Services stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
- NYT short interest4.08 · Buy · stock
- OMC short interest4.04 · Buy · stock
- SIRI short interest4.00 · Buy · stock
- MTCH short interest3.96 · Buy · stock
- ATEX short interest3.89 · Buy · stock
- NXST short interest3.85 · Buy · stock
- DIS short interest3.81 · Buy · stock
- IRDM short interest3.77 · Buy · stock
APP on Lician stock screens
APP is rated Buy (3.92 of 5) and passes 2 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
APP short interest FAQ
What is APP's short interest?
Applovin Corp (APP) had 11.2M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 4.8% of its 231.7M-share float.
How many days to cover does APP have?
2.2 days: 11.2M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 5.1M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is APP short interest rising or falling?
APP short interest fell (-3.9%) from 11.6M to 11.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is APP a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores APP 12 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 6.4/40, days to cover 5.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 0/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of APP daily volume is sold short?
41.3% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 13th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was APP's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Applovin Corp (APP) was 862,233 shares, 41.7% of 2,067,018 total volume.
How many APP short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Applovin Corp (APP), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did APP short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Applovin Corp (APP) moved from 31.8% on Oct 30, 2026 to 41.7% on Nov 2, 2026, up 9.9 percentage points.
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