Becton Dickinson and Company (BDX) short interest & short volume · 3.1% of float short
Becton Dickinson and Company official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
BDX short interest fell 8.9% to 8.9M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (3.1% of float, 5.5 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 38.0% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 49.8% the 20 sessions before, the 9th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 8.9M
- prior 9.8M
- % of float
- 3.1%
- float 285.9M
- Days to cover
- 5.5
- avg vol 1.6M
- Change vs prior report
- -8.9%
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)
- 29.0%
- 184K of 634K
- 20-day average
- 38.0%
- prior 49.8%
- Percentile vs own history
- 9th
- 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: +2.3%
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 · BDX overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 183,753 | 633,741 | 29.0% |
| 2026-10-30 | 267,908 | 619,224 | 43.3% |
| 2026-10-29 | 424,444 | 1,052,790 | 40.3% |
| 2026-10-28 | 148,635 | 714,581 | 20.8% |
| 2026-10-27 | 149,188 | 474,891 | 31.4% |
| 2026-10-26 | 195,557 | 658,760 | 29.7% |
| 2026-10-23 | 212,277 | 507,445 | 41.8% |
| 2026-10-22 | 235,801 | 473,767 | 49.8% |
| 2026-10-21 | 240,390 | 440,903 | 54.5% |
| 2026-10-20 | 150,971 | 434,068 | 34.8% |
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BDX is rated 4.37 of 5 among 532 rated Healthcare stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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BDX on Lician stock screens
BDX is rated Buy (4.37 of 5) and passes 2 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
BDX short interest FAQ
What is BDX's short interest?
Becton Dickinson and Company (BDX) had 8.9M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 3.1% of its 285.9M-share float.
How many days to cover does BDX have?
5.5 days: 8.9M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 1.6M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is BDX short interest rising or falling?
BDX short interest fell (-8.9%) from 9.8M to 8.9M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is BDX a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores BDX 20 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 4.2/40, days to cover 13.7/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 1.8/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of BDX daily volume is sold short?
38.0% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 9th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was BDX's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Becton Dickinson and Company (BDX) was 183,753 shares, 29.0% of 633,741 total volume.
How many BDX short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Becton Dickinson and Company (BDX), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did BDX short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Becton Dickinson and Company (BDX) moved from 43.3% on Oct 30, 2026 to 29.0% on Nov 2, 2026, down 14.3 percentage points.
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