BCS stock
Barclays PLC ADR (BCS) short interest & short volume · 0.0% of float short
Barclays PLC ADR official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
BCS short interest rose 5.3% to 5.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (0.0% of float, 1.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 43.6% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 24.7% the 20 sessions before, the 53rd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Oct 6, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 5.7M
- prior 5.4M
- % of float
- 0.0%
- float 13.29B
- Days to cover
- 1.0
- avg vol 6.5M
- Change vs prior report
- +5.3%
| Report date | Shares short | $ value short | Change | % float | Days to cover | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | 5.7M | $129.2M | +5.3% | 0.0% | 1.0 | $22.81 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 5.4M | $130.5M | -17.4% | 0.0% | 1.2 | $24.27 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 6.5M | $165.5M | +35.3% | 0.1% | 1.5 | $25.44 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 4.8M | $128.1M | -21.3% | 0.0% | 2.0 | $26.64 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 6.1M | $172.1M | -16.9% | 0.1% | 2.2 | $28.14 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 7.4M | $202.4M | +70.5% | 0.1% | 1.1 | $27.50 |
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 11)
- 27.5%
- 416K of 1.5M
- 20-day average
- 43.6%
- prior 24.7%
- Percentile vs own history
- 53rd
- 233 periods since 2025
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Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Nov 11, 2026
Short squeeze score (model)
Price since settlement: +0.1%
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 · BCS overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-11 | 416,378 | 1,513,648 | 27.5% |
| 2026-11-10 | 785,914 | 1,724,958 | 45.6% |
| 2026-11-09 | 807,090 | 1,881,837 | 42.9% |
| 2026-11-06 | 556,662 | 1,824,868 | 30.5% |
| 2026-11-05 | 906,847 | 2,247,786 | 40.3% |
| 2026-11-04 | 1,146,123 | 1,906,611 | 60.1% |
| 2026-11-03 | 775,602 | 1,621,998 | 47.8% |
| 2026-11-02 | 896,839 | 2,019,944 | 44.4% |
| 2026-10-30 | 792,440 | 1,684,994 | 47.0% |
| 2026-10-29 | 882,810 | 1,811,939 | 48.7% |
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BCS on Lician stock screens
BCS is rated Buy (3.94 of 5) and passes 1 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 13, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
BCS short interest FAQ
What is BCS's short interest?
Barclays PLC ADR (BCS) had 5.7M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 0.0% of its 13.29B-share float.
How many days to cover does BCS have?
1.0 days: 5.7M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 6.5M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is BCS short interest rising or falling?
BCS short interest rose (+5.3%) from 5.4M to 5.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is BCS a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores BCS 4 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 0.1/40, days to cover 2.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 1.6/15, price change since settlement date 0.1/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of BCS daily volume is sold short?
43.6% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 11, 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 BCS's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 11, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Barclays PLC ADR (BCS) was 416,378 shares, 27.5% of 1,513,648 total volume.
How many BCS short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Barclays PLC ADR (BCS), from Oct 29, 2026 through Nov 11, 2026.
How did BCS short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Barclays PLC ADR (BCS) moved from 45.6% on Nov 10, 2026 to 27.5% on Nov 11, 2026, down 18.1 percentage points.
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