Aqua Metals Inc (AQMS) short interest & short volume · 3.7% of float short
Aqua Metals Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
AQMS short interest rose 39.7% to 267K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (3.7% of float, 5.1 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 33.5% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 30.1% the 20 sessions before, the 22nd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 22, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 267K
- prior 191K
- % of float
- 3.7%
- float 7.3M
- Days to cover
- 5.1
- avg vol 52K
- Change vs prior report
- +39.7%
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)
- 31.5%
- 2K of 5K
- 20-day average
- 33.5%
- prior 30.1%
- Percentile vs own history
- 22nd
- 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: -16.0%
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 · AQMS overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 1,732 | 5,498 | 31.5% |
| 2026-10-30 | 10,309 | 36,535 | 28.2% |
| 2026-10-29 | 8,616 | 14,379 | 59.9% |
| 2026-10-28 | 167 | 3,249 | 5.1% |
| 2026-10-27 | 2,087 | 8,760 | 23.8% |
| 2026-10-26 | 1,718 | 2,993 | 57.4% |
| 2026-10-23 | 3,266 | 8,904 | 36.7% |
| 2026-10-22 | 4,003 | 10,074 | 39.7% |
| 2026-10-21 | 2,312 | 12,050 | 19.2% |
| 2026-10-20 | 6,721 | 12,306 | 54.6% |
Industrials peers with similar quant ratings
AQMS among 418 rated Industrials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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AQMS short interest FAQ
What is AQMS's short interest?
Aqua Metals Inc (AQMS) had 267K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 3.7% of its 7.3M-share float.
How many days to cover does AQMS have?
5.1 days: 267K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 52K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is AQMS short interest rising or falling?
AQMS short interest rose (+39.7%) from 191K to 267K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is AQMS a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores AQMS 30 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 4.9/40, days to cover 12.8/25, change in short interest vs prior report 11.9/15, 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 AQMS daily volume is sold short?
33.5% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 22nd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was AQMS's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Aqua Metals Inc (AQMS) was 1,732 shares, 31.5% of 5,498 total volume.
How many AQMS short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Aqua Metals Inc (AQMS), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did AQMS short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Aqua Metals Inc (AQMS) moved from 28.2% on Oct 30, 2026 to 31.5% on Nov 2, 2026, up 3.3 percentage points.
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