Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp (AQN) short interest & short volume · 2.0% of float short
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
AQN short interest fell 5.3% to 14.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (2.0% of float, 3.3 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 51.8% of volume over the last 20 sessions, the 53rd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 22, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 14.0M
- prior 14.7M
- % of float
- 2.0%
- float 700.4M
- Days to cover
- 3.3
- avg vol 4.3M
- Change vs prior report
- -5.3%
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)
- 45.0%
- 522K of 1.2M
- 20-day average
- 51.8%
- prior 51.8%
- Percentile vs own history
- 53rd
- 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: +6.2%
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 · AQN overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 522,232 | 1,159,292 | 45.0% |
| 2026-10-30 | 285,524 | 636,714 | 44.8% |
| 2026-10-29 | 421,768 | 763,272 | 55.3% |
| 2026-10-28 | 298,717 | 846,395 | 35.3% |
| 2026-10-27 | 251,670 | 709,690 | 35.5% |
| 2026-10-26 | 358,049 | 592,184 | 60.5% |
| 2026-10-23 | 357,202 | 783,688 | 45.6% |
| 2026-10-22 | 436,451 | 852,181 | 51.2% |
| 2026-10-21 | 457,131 | 744,147 | 61.4% |
| 2026-10-20 | 358,531 | 766,372 | 46.8% |
Utilities peers with similar quant ratings
AQN is rated 1.66 of 5 among 78 rated Utilities stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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AQN short interest FAQ
What is AQN's short interest?
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp (AQN) had 14.0M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 2.0% of its 700.4M-share float.
How many days to cover does AQN have?
3.3 days: 14.0M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 4.3M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is AQN short interest rising or falling?
AQN short interest fell (-5.3%) from 14.7M to 14.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is AQN a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores AQN 16 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 2.7/40, days to cover 8.1/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 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 AQN daily volume is sold short?
51.8% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 53rd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was AQN's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp (AQN) was 522,232 shares, 45.0% of 1,159,292 total volume.
How many AQN short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp (AQN), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did AQN short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp (AQN) moved from 44.8% on Oct 30, 2026 to 45.0% on Nov 2, 2026, up 0.2 percentage points.
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